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Pensioner stabbed in attack by gang



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Published Date: 01 December 2008
A PENSIONER was stabbed in the back by a gang of youths as he walked along a street in a Scottish town, it has emerged.
The 68-year-old man, who has not been named, was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after the attack, which took place in the High Street and Bridge Street area of Tranent, East Lothian, between 7:30 and 8:20pm on Saturday. Police have appealed for witnesses.





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  • Last Updated: 01 December 2008 12:17 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Jay Kay,

01/12/2008 10:32:08
So what do the liberalist doo gooders want to do with these disafected youth, oh lets see obtain background reports, plead that they come from broken homes and need wrapped up in cotten wool blankets.

These teenagers need to be chained up in stocks in public with their crimes read out for all to hear and given twenty lashes each with the birch, then see how keen the disafected youth of today would be when carrying out this kind of atrocity in other streets around Britian.

It just takes one man to change the law, make our streets safer, make an example of these so called kids now.

Before it gets evern worse.
2

decent one,

01/12/2008 13:26:17
It is even worse!
3

Philmugla,

01/12/2008 14:20:32
Love to see the birch return to the UK! But this will not happen because the European numpties would not allow it! Also we have the do gooder brigade that would not wish to traumatise the little mites. Better leave things to the namby, pamby children's panels, psychologists and the professional classes to discuss and recommend and fudge their way to easier softer options. Yuk...Britain is finished!
4

Honest Opinion 2,

Clamecy 01/12/2008 19:27:20
Aye right number 1 - plus to be pelted with coo pancakes and finally degoolified by local grannies. Stand up and be counted people - the country's going down the tubes due to @zolls like these predators on the weaker members of society
5

Poetess50,

01/12/2008 19:29:56
They should receive the most severe penalty available. Unfortunately, we all know that won't happen.
6

Reiver,

Galashiels 01/12/2008 20:15:39
Vote Tory, small Government, lower taxes, more social responsibility and less of the liberal namby pamby brigade, and less of the big brother Labour brigade ...

 

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