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arthwollipot said:
According to the statistics, we had 14 homicides in the whole city of about 400,000 in 2022.
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Huh, 400K is pretty big and 14 homicides does seem pretty high for for a country that have strict gun control laws. But then again, "that's not a knife, THIS is a knife". Stereotypes are important.

Amazon has a bunch of shows about murder cases in different countries (UK, India, South Africa, Brazil, you name it). Granted, I doubt Canberra is a hotbed of violent crime, for the most part.

But every time you see one of those true crime docs, there's alway one who says "It's a safe community, there was no way this could happen here." Or something like that. But it does.
 
PitPat said:
Huh, 400K is pretty big and 14 homicides does seem pretty high for for a country that have strict gun control laws. But then again, "that's not a knife, THIS is a knife". Stereotypes are important.
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Two reported homicides in the last few days have been committed with knives - the one I linked to here because it was local to me and that's what the thread is about, and another one in Adelaide.

PitPat said:
Amazon has a bunch of shows about murder cases in different countries (UK, India, South Africa, Brazil, you name it). Granted, I doubt Canberra is a hotbed of violent crime, for the most part.
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You don't get very many TV shows set here, it's true. But you do get some.

PitPat said:
But every time you see one of those true crime docs, there's alway one who says "It's a safe community, there was no way this could happen here." Or something like that. But it does.
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Yeah, the Stabbing At The Zoo was pretty shocking.
 
arthwollipot said:
Two reported homicides in the last few days have been committed with knives - the one I linked to here because it was local to me and that's what the thread is about, and another one in Adelaide.

You don't get very many TV shows set here, it's true. But you do get some.

Yeah, the Stabbing At The Zoo was pretty shocking.
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Yeah, I was considering posting the 'Adelaide' one, it was very close to me.

(Less than 1km as the crow flies).

Sadly, the perpetrator was 'known to Police' so several more victims of the 'force the mentally ill to live at large' policy.
 
Well, you know that there is a range of mental illness, and many mentally ill people are more than capable of living "at large" while not being a danger to themselves or others.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/20/brianna-ghey-found-guilty-murder

Guilty verdict in a particularly horrific murder.

Local to me in the sense it happened in the village my mother lives in, in a park I often walk the dogs, I had walked them there the week prior to the murder, and one of the murderers lived in my childhood town.

Because of it being local I've been following the case closely and it has been very distressing merely as someone following it, I can't comprehend how it has been for the family and friends.

Many people have been avoiding the park since the murder, it's a very small park, it's called Linear park as it is a straight and very narrow stretch of public space, it's impossible to avoid the place where the murder happened, and even those still going into the park put their dogs on a lead once you get close to the murder site. It's profoundly affected the area unlike any other murder (not like there have ever been many, 2 others in the last 30 years).
 
Darat said:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/20/brianna-ghey-found-guilty-murder

Guilty verdict in a particularly horrific murder.

Local to me in the sense it happened in the village my mother lives in, in a park I often walk the dogs, I had walked them there the week prior to the murder, and one of the murderers lived in my childhood town.

Because of it being local I've been following the case closely and it has been very distressing merely as someone following it, I can't comprehend how it has been for the family and friends.

Many people have been avoiding the park since the murder, it's a very small park, it's called Linear park as it is a straight and very narrow stretch of public space, it's impossible to avoid the place where the murder happened, and even those still going into the park put their dogs on a lead once you get close to the murder site. It's profoundly affected the area unlike any other murder (not like there have ever been many, 2 others in the last 30 years).
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Similar here, where an unsolved murder on the local rail trail has had a profound effect on the whole surrounding community. Mentioned earlier here, still unsolved both as to perpetrator and motive if any.
 
We haven't heard from the family Burke in a while. So what is the bold Enoch up to in the 'Joy?

He took an application to deny GSOC (one of the statutory oversight bodies for An Garda Síochána (AGS), with statutory investigatory powers) the ability to access court CCTV in order to investigate the complaint he and his family made against AGS during a fracas they started in a previous High Court session.

But first the court had to hear his complaint over refusing him or his family to attend the courtroom in person because of their previous bad behaviour. The results can be seen here (using archive.is because the Irish Times paywalls everything, including its advertising). Just a word of warning, everything the Burkes say about being disruptive is a flat out lie.
 
A 17 year old murder suspect escaped from custody. They want the public's help in finding him...but because of his age they won't give his name, photo, or a description. I'm thinking they're going to have to find him without the public's help this time.
 
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