Also ... best journo around just now.
If they wear blue, that is? Might be brown.
A veteran cop has revealed how political correctness may prevented (sic) police arresting the man accused of throwing a thermos of hot coffee on a baby. Nine-month-old baby Luka was at a picnic with his mother and friends at Hanlon Park, in Brisbane's south, on August 27 when a stranger approached and poured hot coffee over the infant, badly scalding him.
At this point, is anyone at all surprised?
Despite CCTV clearly capturing the face of the suspect, police failed to find or detain him, and detectives revealed on Monday that the now-identified 33-year-old accused attacker had managed to flee overseas. Former Australian Federal Police detective superintendent David Craig criticised Queensland Police for not showing the suspect's face in their first public alert despite having a clear picture, and for being deliberately vague in describing him.
'His description was reported as "a person [with] tan skin…" that doesn't narrow it down very much,' Mr Craig told Channel Seven's Sunrise program. 'He should've been called out as a man of Asian appearance, just as we do people of Caucasian appearance. It didn't happen quickly enough in this case.
'This is not racial vilification terms. These are identifying terms.'
It seems it's not just the UK police that get hung up on identifying terms then.
The 33-year-old man accused of carrying out the attack was in NSW on August 28 - a day after the incident in Brisbane. He flew out of Sydney Airport on August 31 with his own passport just 12 hours before police confirmed his identity. A warrant has since been obtained for his arrest for alleged grievous bodily harm, a charge which carries a possible life sentence.
Only if caught. And he's not likely to come back now, is he?
Matthew Charnock, 35, was rushed to Whiston Hospital after being smashed over the head with an iron wheel brace by jealous Steven Cotterill. But despite Mr Charnock appearing extremely confused and bleeding heavily from a head wound, nurses failed to order a CT scan and instead patched up the cut and sent him home with painkillers.Envy of the world, am I right?
Mr Charnock was found unresponsive the next day and taken back to hospital where medics discovered he had a serious skull fracture and was suffering from sepsis and meningitis. He underwent surgery but could not be saved. Last week Coroner Jacqueline Devonish ruled Mr Charnock was unlawfully killed and that his death was contributed to by neglect by triage nurse Stephanie Keelan and emergency nurse practitioner Paul O’Brien, who failed to order the scan which would have saved his life.
And the coroner was in no doubt about the potential outcome if the NHS 'workers' had done their job. But they weren't the only ones who's performance was less than it should have been.
Following a three-week trial at Chester Crown Court, Cotterill, then 39, was convicted of Mr Charnock’s manslaughter and jailed for seven years.
And his 'accomplices' in the ER? What about them?
Nurse O’Brien was also investigated and interviewed by police, who found Mr Charnock’s treatment to be ‘sub-optimal.’ But the nurse was never charged after the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was no realistic prospect of convicting him of gross negligence manslaughter.
Some play the game. Some quit half way through. Some never even get off the bench at all.
a. Mark W:
“If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” (Sir Karl Popper, 28th July 1902 – 17th September 1994)
b. Alexandra Marshall:
Why do people want politicians to control and moderate ‘the truth’ online? No, seriously. Why are so many on the left incapable of thinking for themselves to the point the need a government to pre-edit the social conversation for them? It’s rather pathetic that a human mind could be so weak.
JH: Decades of seeping indoctrination, intergenerational.
c. Peter D. Clack:
If carbon dioxide doubled overnight it would make no measurable difference at all to weather or temperatures anywhere on earth. This is because the effects of CO2 are logarithmic & when you add CO2, the effect diminishes sharply on a sliding scale. Alarmists hope no one notices.
d. Dan Wootton:
Not just a day of shame for the BBC, but the discredited leftist pundits who defended Huw Edwards for political reasons while calling for my cancellation after a left-wing witch hunt. Notably Owen Jones, Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Narinder Kaur. (I’ll) ever listen to them again.
e. Students for liberty:
“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.” (Thomas Paine)
A new play area at the National Arboretum designed to help children 'connect with nature' has been built beneath trees that drop poisonous berries. Two playgrounds, called Branch Out and Holford Hollow, feature climbing poles, ropes and a giant web-like structure. But they are tucked away among yew trees, which produce small orange or red berries that are attractive to children – but deadly if eaten.
Well, really, who'd eat berries they didn't know anything about?
It comes months after a coroner expressed concern about the hidden danger yew berries pose after a boy collapsed and died from eating them during a walk in a park with his father.
Ah.
The source, who asked not to be named, added the site for the play area had been chosen because it was a 'natural clearing' – but pointed out it was only clear because the extremely toxic yew trees had suppressed other plants.
I guess these days, we can't even expect the people who run the National Arboretum to know anything about trees...
Last week, bosses put up some small signs reading: 'Caution. Most berries in the arboretum are not safe to eat. If you see them on the floor or in the trees please leave them where they are.' However, staff feared these signs were not obvious or specific enough.
Stick a skull and crossbones icon on them then.