Literally her job or might her brief be a little more wide ranging than that?I'm more concerned that the education secretary doesn't realise that its half term everywhere in the uk. Thats her job!
Love it when G-Dav pops up on a point of law.Although harder to prove because of the requisite proof of intent, the maximum sentence for s.18 GBH is life imprisonment.
I tend to agree.Looks like road rage to me
Driver panics when surrounded by crowds and loses the head for whatever reason
With Merseyside Police confirming a young child and 3 others were under the car and the vivid horrific footage a lot of us have seen and have commented or wished not to comment the scale of this tragedy unfolding and the information to come during today can we as blues continue to post with dignity and respect and above all pray for those affected. I have been awake nearly all night traumatised by what I saw in this footage we can only touch on what the families and friends of the people injured and seriously injured are going through.There are reports of bodies stuck under the car
At that point most people will be assuming it was a deliberate terrorist attack, what do you expect them to do?Saw one or two of the videos and there were lots of shouts to kill the driver rather than concern for the injured. Whilst the driver deserves what’s coming to him and more, the thirst from some for summary justice over everything else is sad to see, and the police shouldn’t have to be wrestling with people who just want to attack the driver.
The incident happened at around 6pm as the parade ( Which started sometime after 2pm ) was ending, which probably explains why hundreds are walking in the road as the police/stewards start removing barriers and opening them up again. In another video I've seen you can see barriers stacked up.
It looks like the car has somehow ended up amongst the crowd, probably by thinking, "Oh the roads open I'll cut through here" then realising he's fucked up as he's in the middle of hundreds of people. He starts beeping his horn to move them and people get angry thinking "What the fuck is he doing driving here?" He starts trying to nudge them out of the way increasing their anger and also his frustration and anger. As he bumps people they start attacking the car, one person opens his door. One man behind him is especially angry trying to kick his back window in. The driver reversed into him pushing him back. He then picks something up and throws it, probably smashing his rear window ( Visible in later pictures as the car is stopped. )
It escalated very badly from there.
Who the fuck punches a car! Absolute bellends.
Fella with the bag on.
Ffs what an absolute bell end.
Easy thing to say but sadly if he steps outside the car and someone starts laying into him, others join in and he is soon in big trouble, looks like a horrible set of circumstances have led to blind panic and a total loss of rational thinking on the drivers part and a truly awful conclusion.Hindsight is a wonderful thing but here's what the driver SHOULD have done. Stopped the car. Got out and shouted he was sorry, no idea how he ended up stuck here, I fucked up. Laughed and started singing champions or something similar. That would have deescalated the situation quickly and probably got the crowd onside. As I said hindsight eh?
The incident happened at around 6pm as the parade ( Which started sometime after 2pm ) was ending, which probably explains why hundreds are walking in the road as the police/stewards start removing barriers and opening them up again. In another video I've seen you can see barriers stacked up.
It looks like the car has somehow ended up amongst the crowd, probably by thinking, "Oh the roads open I'll cut through here" then realising he's fucked up as he's in the middle of hundreds of people. He starts beeping his horn to move them and people get angry thinking "What the fuck is he doing driving here?" He starts trying to nudge them out of the way increasing their anger and also his frustration and anger. As he bumps people they start attacking the car, one person opens his door. One man behind him is especially angry trying to kick his back window in. The driver reversed into him pushing him back. He then picks something up and throws it, probably smashing his rear window ( Visible in later pictures as the car is stopped. )
It escalated very badly from there.
An accident waiting to happen. One day someone will need urgent medical attention and the medics wont be able to get through the crowd. Needs to be better organised before "lessons will be learned " needs to be said again .OR maybe hold at the ground say three sittings of 50,00 fans . The team can rest in their luxury dressing rooms whilst the fans are let in and out and would probably take no longer than the slow crawl through the City CentreWas involved in a near-crush near Mosley Street during the Treble Parade. Not nice at all.
The person DELIBERATELY punched the car -the mowing down of people may well have been a panicking , frightened driver who had strayed into the wrong areaRead the news, there were fault on both sides. BUT IN NO WAY JUSTIFIES RUNNING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY KIDS DOWN! And your concern was who punches a car???!!! Who drives people down??!!! Get your priorities straight bud.
Yes, dozed off quite early, woke up about 2am and couldn’t get back to sleep until 4am!Do you never sleep? \O/
Easy thing to say but sadly if he steps outside the car and someone starts laying into him, others join in and he is soon in big trouble, looks like a horrible set of circumstances have led to blind panic and a total loss of rational thinking on the drivers part and a truly awful conclusion.
Yeah, if my car was getting battered by all sorts, from an angry mob I would defo get out of the car and try to reason with them. He will be wishing he done that of course and we all wished that was the case. Sadly rational thinking leaves you when in that mindset. Scared for his own safety he has brainless put others in danger. It is a complete shitshow which could have been avoided and everyone needs to be held accountable. Liverpool fans included.Hindsight is a wonderful thing but here's what the driver SHOULD have done. Stopped the car. Got out and shouted he was sorry, no idea how he ended up stuck here, I fucked up. Laughed and started singing champions or something similar. That would have deescalated the situation quickly and probably got the crowd onside. As I said hindsight eh?
Highways at LCC to close but Merseyside Police to enforce.Is it the police’s responsibility to close the roads or the council’s?
It might not be straightforward, but it’s the responsibility of the authorities to sort it when there are hundreds of thousands of people on the streets. Whilst this might not have been a terrorist, it could very well have been and this was preventable.I’ve been on many shut off marathon and half marathons and seen cars get stuck and moving along our route. Its very hard to organise and police every single aspect of long mile stretches.