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| Mosque gang kill UK teenager |
| 2004-09-09 |
| A teenager was killed with a ceremonial dagger in east London as revenge after his friends tried to rob a group of Asian youths, the Old Bailey has heard. Ashley Hedger, 16, was stabbed on Plashet Road, Upton Park, in Plaistow, on 16 January. Brendan Finucane QC, prosecuting, said the group of youths were summoned from a nearby mosque by one of the victims. Mohammed Alim, Raju Rahman, Albab Chowdhury and Amran Siddik, all 18, from Newham, east London, deny murder. Mr Finucane said: "He [Ashley] was chased by a group of Asian youths into the doorway of a supermarket where he was repeatedly punched, kicked and stabbed. "The blade of the knife was found embedded in his right temple. the handle of the knife was missing." He said the attack on Ashley was in revenge for an attempted robbery on one of the attackers by Ashley's friends just a few minutes before. He added that Ashley had distanced himself from the plan but was set upon after mistakenly being pointed out as one of the attackers. "One of the attackers, who was dressed in traditional Islamic clothing, hit the deceased twice in the head with a downwards stabbing motion with as much force as he could muster," Mr Finucane said. Ashley died of his injuries in hospital after suffering four stab wounds, including one to the heart. The trial has been adjourned until Friday. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #7 No "Ginger" Asia is where China and Japan is the Middle East and, Near East is where Islam is. Viet Nam, Burma Cambodia are in Asia. Stupid git. Yes Howard the BBC is racist against all fair skinned peoples :Þ what else is new today. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-30 9:17:56 AM |
| #6 Gerry - tried posting on your blog - similar'racially motivated' murders pepetrated by minorities get little or no coverage in my part of London either - a lad got kicked to death in the car park of our local supermarket last year. The story made it to page 7 in the local rag. There's real evidence such stories are being deliberately suppressed to avoid causing trouble for minorities in our fair city. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-09-30 9:14:39 AM |
| #5 I'm shocked the beeb has gone as far to say the attackers were muslim - let alone summoned from a nearby mosque. This will do nothing to ease the current climate of anti-muslim sentiment in the UK. Couldn't they have simply left the description as 'asian'? Appalling racist jourmalism. ;) |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-09-30 9:07:30 AM |
| #4 "Yea I tell you. I am literate enough to find Asia on a map. I don't see to many "islamic cultures" there." Asia is where all the islamic cultures are or was your statement ironic? |
| Posted by: Critch Griger4522 2004-09-30 8:58:49 AM |
| #3 What bothers me is how this story has almost been suffocated out of the British Press. Even the local paper doesn't seem to dare put it online, even though it is on the front cover of this week's issue. Does this indicate how uneasy the government feels about it? http://gerrylondon.blogspot.com/2004/09/ashley-hedger-east-london.html |
| Posted by: Gerry 2004-09-16 11:57:03 AM |
| #2 Yea I tell you. I am literate enough to find Asia on a map. I don't see to many "islamic cultures" there. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-10 5:20:29 AM |
| #1 The use of the term "Asian Youths" makes this story confusing for Americans to read. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-09-09 10:41:06 PM |