Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Gordon Brown vists Camden estate as "Police do nothing where women attacked".

Sarah Sceptical | 15.10.2009 22:43 | Gender | Health | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

Gordon Brown made an unannounced visit to a Camden council estate in Gospel Oak. A gran told Gordon how she defended herself and her granddaughter with a baseball bat when 60 male youths chased her, tried to set her on fire, sabotaged her garden and threatened her granddaughter. Gordon visited as people have complained about failed ASBOS and the CNJ reported a lack of faith in police.

The Camden New Journal makes the report here.

 http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/2009/101509/news101509_01.html

The woman on the Kiln estate in Gospel Oak said that she has had enough after "doing everything properly, reporting things to the authoroties" etc. Nothing was done to help her and she came out with a bat and defended herself her granddaughter and her home.

On a northern UK estate a woman was jailed after she fired at youths with a BB gun [they weren't hit or hurt] after years of abuse from them. Recently the mainstream newspapers reported how a mother killed both herself and her daughter after ten years of torment from a group of men.

What kind of society or police "service" looks the other way when women are continously abused by groups of men? Too often the women are the ones arrested or ticked off and warned by police when they defend themselves againt violent men. Another Camden woman was threatened with arrest for harrassment when a group of men started an intimidation campaign. A petrified woman who was screaming with fear during a domestic violence incident in Gospel Oak was arrested for breach of the peace, for screaming in terror while being chased. She had been traumatised during war in Somalia and then had the trauma of violent man to deal with but the abuse from Camden Police was the last straw. Old people have told the Camden New Journal that they are too scared to walk down Camden High Street in the evenings following abuse from men hanging around. The elderly people said that the men were drug dealers and that they were so afraid of them that they won't go out but the police are "worse than useless", so they stay in when they want to get fresh air, take a walk in town, visit friends, go to a restaurant or go shopping. They simply stay in which isn't fair.
One woman against 60 youths who congregate in her garden every night is something most people living in nice places cannot even begin to comprehend. This is every day reality for the woman who was left with no option but to use a bat to defend herself and a young female relative.
For anyone living in Gospel Oak you will know that this is very dismal estate. It it is like a huge rabbit warren. There isn't much for young people to do which is what leads to them getting angry, frustrated and bored and taking this out on the neighbours. ASBOs are not the answer. I suppose that Camden Council will come with some ingeniuos car parking scam to somehow get some money together to get Gospel Oak sorted out. Meanwhile Camden's Police Service will be hiding out at a bus stop somewhere in groups of fifty to catch people who haven't got a bendy bus ticket. [They love Warren Street / Bayham Street / Holloway Road ....just so you know]. They will also jump out at Camden Town Tube station to search [grope] terrified female tourists who have been caught by a sniffer dog for a having a blim's worth of hash stuck to their shoe or something.
We could just all just go out and get some bats and cause mayhem. [Only kidding]. So, what will Gordon do we ask?

Sarah Sceptical

Comments

Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech