Qazi "the Nazi" 19, sure looks like an Islamic terrorist to me.
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| Britain |
| Schoolboy battered to brink of death with claw hammer in savage attack resembling Tarantino film |
| 2008-01-09 |
| By MICHAEL SEAMARK A gang battered a schoolboy to the brink of death with a claw hammer in a scene straight out of a Quentin Tarantino film, a court heard yesterday. Henry Webster, 16, was struck with such force that an imprint of the hammer was left on his skull, fracturing it in three places. The 6ft 2in rugby player, who needed emergency surgery, still feels the effects of the "savage beating" by 16 Asian youths, Bristol Crown Court was told. Four teenagers - Wasif Khan, 18, Amjad Qazi, 19, and two boys aged 15 and 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons - deny charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. James Patrick, prosecuting, said: "To those who watched it, it made a sickening sight, the sort of violence you would expect to see in a Quentin Tarantino film - certainly not in a playground in a school." The court heard how a fight "blew out of nothing" in January last year, after Henry ran into a group of Asian boys in a corridor at Ridgeway School in Wroughton, Swindon. After a brief argument, he was asked to meet the 15-year- old defendant at the school tennis courts later that day. Mr Patrick said: "It was to be a fair fight. A one- on- one - or so Henry thought. Amjad Qazi,19, is one of the four teenagers who are charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm "But he had not reckoned on the fact it was not to be one-on-one - it was going to be significantly more." The court heard how the defendant had texted or telephoned a group of friends from Swindon, who travelled to the 1,400-pupil school especially for the fight. In a video interview filmed six days after the attack and shown to the jury yesterday, Henry told police he tried to walk away but the group ambushed him. "I stood around for a bit, then these men came through the gate and looked around," he said. "[The 15-year-old] was pointing at me and saying "He's the one, he's the one". A man in a black jacket pushed me and, as I walked away, he started punching me. "I heard screams, then I was punched in the back of my head. I was curled up on the floor but they repeatedly kept hitting me. The attack happened after Henry 'barged' into the group of boys in a corridor at the Ridgeway School in Wroughton "Then I felt the hammer hit the back of my head. I know it was a hammer because if it was a punch, your vision does not change. "As I got hit, my vision turned to stars - it all separated, what I could see, because it was so powerful." Mr Patrick said: "Amazingly, Henry remained conscious throughout but his injuries were described by paramedics as lifethreatening." Witnesses to the assault saw his attackers run off, punching the air and shouting: "We've done it." Doctors have told Henry he will never recover from the attack Henry said: "The hammer had gone through my head, through my skull and into the fluid in my brain. "I have been told I will never recover because the brain cells will not reform." The trial continues. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #12 Given the lack of hammer attacks in Tarantino films, wouldn't it be more correct to say this is a scene straight out of the British daily papers? Seems like the whole country is turning a little clockwork orangish. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-01-09 20:25 |
| #11 "'savage beating' by 16 Imagine my surprise.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-09 18:01 |
| #10 In the British press, the term "Asian youths" usually means Pakistani youths, i.e., Muslims. It's a politically correct way to refer to Muslims involved in heinous crimes. |
| Posted by: Gazoo 2008-01-09 17:34 |
| #9 Qazi |
| Posted by: ed 2008-01-09 17:11 |
| #8 Qazi "the Nazi" 19, sure looks like an Islamic terrorist to me. |
| Posted by: Crealing Wittlesbach2692 2008-01-09 15:04 |
| #7 Mr Patrick said: "It was to be a fair fight. A one- on- one - or so Henry thought. Savages do not fight this way. Their preferred method is ambush. In a more civilized time the correct response would not involve the police. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-01-09 14:40 |
| #6 What century does Henry think he is living in? He is 6'2 and looks pretty beefy. He thinks some guy is going to show up to an appointed fist fight alone and unarmed? |
| Posted by: Penguin 2008-01-09 13:39 |
| #5 This is well known here, but "asian" is the briton PC word for "pakistanese" (can from the whole indian peninsula too, but since it's mostly used now for race riots, crime, terrorism and islamic militancy...). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-01-09 13:34 |
| #4 too hell with the critics corner on the tarantino film viewers, how about the names of these young men described as asian sounds like alot of muzzies too me |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-01-09 13:27 |
| #3 This assault/murder attempt is symptomatic; I'd venture that all over the West, the most common victim of an hate crime is a young urban white male, with possibly a young white female as an alternate, sex crimes included. As for tarantino, agreed, his movies are bloated and hollow; "Reservoir dogs" was ok, "Jackie Brown" was good, IMHO, but all the others are all show, and no substance, just what you'd imagine from a videoclub geek. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-01-09 13:08 |
| #2 Wasif Khan, 18, Amjad Qazi, 19, and two boys aged 15 and 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons... Nigel? Clive? I've always thouught that Quentin Tarantino movies are some of the most overrated pieces of crap ever made. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-01-09 12:58 |
| #1 The claiming it resembled a Tarantino film is out of place. Despite his reputation Tarintino rarely showed violence on screen. In Reservoir Dogs for example the ear chopping was not actually shown, instead a wall was shown and the viewer filled in the blanks. In Pulp Fiction the shootings were not shown, nor the bodies, but instead the screen flashed red and we saw reactions. This is similar to what Hitchcock did in Psycho with the knife but people don't refer to his films as ultraviolent. Journalists should try a little harder for a decent metaphor. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-01-09 12:31 |