Four Killers Jailed For Teenager Party Murder In Ilford.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20796584

Do some hate the Police and justice so much that they refuse to help to bring killers in their own communities to justice, or is it a simple matter of just being scared of the consequences if they do?

/// Sentencing Judge John Bevan said: "The veil of silence which has fallen over the main participants in this case speaks volumes as to the cowardice and moral bankruptcy on both sides of the parties. ///

/// "Witness after witness refused to speak out and avenge the death of their 17-year-old friend." ///

[jake-the-peg]

Well look at how many people could have given evidence against the Krays and didn't.

It's probably very easy to talk about cowardice and moral bancruptcy when you have the security of position and wealth of a high court judge

[friedgreentomato]

Perhaps they were scared of coming forward!

[pdq1]

Having once lived in Ilford we often reminisce about what a wonderful place it was and violence was almost non-existant. That was a few years ago. How times have changed. If we still lived in that community we certainly wouldn't have turned a blind eye.

[chas2008]

just look at the crime programmes on the CI channel ie 1st 48, this happens all the time...UK is turning into the US

[FredPuli43]

Sometimes the answer is not fear of the consequences, in itself, nor an honour code, but rather simpler. I knew a case where a man was killed in a club. Obviously there were eye witnesses, a few of whom gave statements identifying the killer. By the time the case got to the committal stage these witnesses had suffered mysterious memory loss and they didn't know anything much about it; they had seen nothing. The defendant was a young man with a wealthy father, known to the police. The witnesses had been bought off