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10 YO Pupil in beheading threat

2004-10-12

A 10-year-old Asian pupil threatened to behead a seven year-old schoolboy with a Stanley knife after watching gruesome TV images from Iraq.

Asian, was he? Those Chinese — they lose control so damned easily!

I dont know about the UK but the gruesome images dont get broadcast in the US. I think his proud parents deliberately showed him the video from the internet. A boy has to have hero's you know.....
Paul Williams told how the young thug threatened his grandson Nathan outside the gates of Highgate Primary School in Woodside, Dudley where both were pupils. The 10 year-old was subsequently arrested by police and it is understood that he has now been expelled.
Sounds like he was also released. Wonder if they allowed him to keep his knife.....
His victim was uninjured but is now receiving counselling after suffering sleepless nights over the chilling incident. Grandad Mr Williams said: "The 10 year-old was pretending to be an Iraqi assassin who was going to cut Nathan's head off like the American hostages.

Now, now! "Assassin" is so harsh. "Role model" would be much nicer...

"Nathan has been in bits since. He's really shaken up and hasn't been able to sleep properly. He has been having counselling because it upset him so much."

First contact with barbarism, was it?

News of the school attack came just two days after it was announced that British hostage Ken Bigley had been executed in Iraq. Mr Williams, from Dudley, claimed the young knife attacker had previously targeted Nathan's 10 year-old brother Martin. "It had always previously been Martin who was subjected to bullying by this boy and two of his friends," he said. "We have been told that the parents of the 10 year-old lad actually condone him carrying the knife and say that it is for his own protection."

And for the protection of Islam, no doubt...

Its parents are probably so proud of him too...
"Three of them approached him, including the ringleader who had a Stanley knife. Nathan said he ran the knife down his arm and then down his front, telling him that he would use it.
Typical bully - even with a knife it is afraid without a couple of thugs to back him up.
A Dudley Council education spokesman said: "We are always very concerned when we hear of violent incidents involving pupils. No school condones violence.
Except for bullying apparently.
"This is now a police matter and we will work with them during their investigation." A West Midlands Police spokesman said: "The incident was reported to us at 3.40pm on Friday, September 24. We were told that a 10 year-old boy had threatened another boy aged seven. Officers attended and arrested the 10 year-old." Investigations are continuing into the incident.

No source on this, though it reads like The Sun...

Posted by:CrazyFool

#3 "Asian" in this context means Pakistani, not Chinese.

Posted by: lex 2004-10-13 3:25:21 PM

#2 No school condones violence.

Unless the kid is bookish, non-athletic, or just plain weird, of course. Traditions must be upheld, you know.

Posted by: BH 2004-10-12 8:08:59 PM

#1 âThree of them approached him, including the ringleader who had a Stanley knife. Nathan said he ran the knife down his arm and then down his front, telling him that he would use it.

That would be what's known in the US as a "box-cutter". This little twerp's a regular wanna-be jihadi.

Boil him in oil before he kills someone.

Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-10-12 8:05:41 PM

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