Telford suicide: Thousands sign petition demanding police arrest sick mob who urged tragic man to jump

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Almost 5,000 have already signed the petition, calling for action against members of the crowd who even took selfies moments before the tragic man plunged to his death

Thousands are signing a petition demanding that police identify and prosecute those who encouraged a suicidal man to jump to his death from a multi-storey car park.

Shocking reports emerged yesterday of crowds taunting the man who was threatening to jump from a shopping centre's car park, with police condemning their behaviour.

The unnamed man, understood to be in his 40s, stood for more than two hours from the high distance on Saturday as members of the crowd filmed the harrowing incident on their phones, with some even taking selfies.

Police witnessed the shocking behaviour at the the busy Southwater shopping centre in Telford, Shropshire, at around 1pm.

Specialist negotiators were even deployed in an attempt to talk him down, but he jumped to his death from the car park at 3.40pm

Taunts shouted at the tragic victim included "Get on with it", "Go on, jump," and some even chanting: "How far can you bounce?".

But now almost 5,000 have signed a petition demanding police action.

The petition, set up yesterday by local Ceri Ransome, reads: "We the undersigned request that West Mercia Police take immediate action to find, arrest and charge the people who encouraged a man to jump to his death from a multi storey building in Telford on Saturday 14th March 2015.

"The family deserve this justice and the people of Telford want these people to be held accountable for their vile behaviour and complete lack of compassion.

"This petition also appeals to the Shropshire Star to name and shame these people. Our thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of the man concerned at this sad time."

Police have since confirmed that they will seek to identify offenders who taunted him and arrest them.

Mark O’Connor, a detective sergeant for West Mercia police, said: “We do not condone such behaviour, and would hope that the local community would work with our officers to provide information regarding those who committed the cruel taunts.

"This was clearly someone who was in need of support.

“In response to the activity on social media, the origin of any comments or material that is deemed to be unlawful will be investigated and appropriate police action will be taken against any identified individual.

"I would urge that any person who is in possession of any related material does not publish it any further and ensures it is disposed of.”

One witness to the horrific incident, Chloe Jones, told the BBC: "As we walked past, there were some youths shouting ‘Go on, do it – jump’.

“It made me feel quite sick, actually, and then a lot of them were filming it, but to see some grown men filming it … I just said to them ‘What on earth are you going to do with that footage? Are you going to home and watch it if that poor man jumps?’”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/telford-suicide-thousands-sign-petition-5347573

How can people DO that!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Poor man must have been in a terrible state, how can people not feel for him and egg him on. Disgusting cretins, hope they get locked away.

Original Quill wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

Greeks I would agree with, Romans, technology wise maybe, but certainly not in how they treated people.
Celts get my vote, women had some real equality back then.

I admire the Celts most too.  But **ahem** I am one.  Lol.

I am part Celt, being the fact my mother is Irish.

It's no secret why the Scots have the four best universities in the United Kingdom--and that's amid some great ones throughout Britain--and the finest overall education system as well.  The Celts.

CUG Rank University Name Entry Standards Student Satisfaction Research Assessment Graduate Prospects Overall Score
2015 2014
1 1 Cambridge 614 4.24 2.98 84.7 1000
2 2 Oxford 580 4.19 2.96 78.4 993
3 3 London School of Economics 537 4.04 2.96 76.4 957
4 6 St Andrews 521 4.26 2.72 80.1 941
5 5 Durham 523 4.14 2.72 82.4 930
6 4 Imperial College London 570 4.08 2.94 88.7 926
7 8 Warwick 509 4.04 2.80 77.7 893
8 9 Bath 488 4.24 2.71 83.3 883
9 7 University College London 520 3.94 2.84 80.7 876
10 10 Exeter 458 4.22 2.62 76.9 870
11 11 Lancaster 445 4.11 2.71 72.7 866
12 13 Surrey 416 4.19 2.58 74.9 862
13 14 Loughborough 406 4.10 2.62 75.3 851
14 12 York 443 4.14 2.78 73.7 849
15 20 East Anglia 426 4.21 2.58 68.3 839
16 20 Southampton 428 4.04 2.72 75.1 835
17 17 Birmingham 438 4.05 2.64 80.3 829
18 15 Bristol 481 4.00 2.72 78.8 823
19 16 Leicester 400 4.12 2.45 71.6 815
20 22 Newcastle 437 4.11 2.63 79.0 806
21 18 Edinburgh 487 3.83 2.75 74.9 804
22 28 Kent 369 4.08 2.60 70.6 798
23 35 Cardiff 420 4.02 2.69 77.4 792
23 32 Leeds 431 4.05 2.72 69.1 792
23 24 Nottingham 439 4.02 2.67 76.8 792
26 26 Sheffield 437 4.10 2.72 71.4 787
27 27 Aston 378 4.14 2.43 73.0 774
28 19 King's College London 466 3.91 2.69 81.8 773
28 25 Manchester 439 3.99 2.82 71.8 773
30 23 Glasgow 485 4.09 2.59 74.4 771
31 38 Liverpool 412 4.02 2.54 71.2 764
31 29 Queen's, Belfast 390 4.15 2.56 74.6 764
33 40 Heriot-Watt 422 4.17 2.48 77.7 759
33 30 Royal Holloway 402 4.10 2.67 63.6 759
35 33 SOAS 415 4.00 2.60 66.4 755
36 35 Queen Mary 422 4.07 2.73 68.7 752
37 37 Reading 375 4.09 2.53 68.6 750
38 31 Sussex 406 4.03 2.61 54.2 748
39 39 Essex 339 4.19 2.77 51.4 731
40 42 City 390 4.05 2.48 70.6 728
41 41 Strathclyde 468 3.96 2.45 73.6 720
42 48 Swansea 338 4.00 2.43 77.3 714
43 45 Keele 380 4.18 2.41 67.6 698
44 43 Aberdeen 441 4.01 2.57 75.1 696
45 49 Stirling 379 4.02 2.41 63.0 691
46 34 St George's, University of London 417 3.78 2.28 87.3 687
47 44 Brunel 351 4.08 2.32 60.0 684
48 45 Oxford Brookes 361 4.07 2.20 63.4 680
49 47 Dundee 402 4.01 2.54 71.8 676
50 50 Goldsmiths, University of London 340 4.09 2.58 52.4 675
51 58 Coventry 309 4.20 1.85 70.5 672
52 61 Nottingham Trent 316 4.03 2.16 61.1 665
53 56 West of England, Bristol 337 4.02 2.20 67.5 661
54 53 Robert Gordon 379 4.03 2.06 81.4 656
55 52 Lincoln 336 4.05 1.90 68.1 654
55 60 Falmouth 310 3.94 2.20 60.1 654
57 75 Arts University Bournemouth 325 4.13 1.20 68.4 652
58 64 Northumbria 362 4.02 2.15 61.4 645
59 69 Winchester 318 4.14 2.16 52.0 644
60 53 Hertfordshire 340 3.89 2.40 62.2 639
61 57 Buckingham 325 4.34 83.1 638
62 86 University for the Creative Arts 320 3.84 1.90 51.0 635
63 68 Portsmouth 311 4.05 2.24 63.2 632
64 64 Bangor 305 4.07 2.43 61.9 627
65 59 Bournemouth 331 3.91 2.18 63.4 621
66 53 Hull 327 4.09 2.37 54.4 618
66 76 Sheffield Hallam 318 3.95 2.05 57.3 618
66 67 University of the Arts, London 330 3.90 2.49 53.3 618
69 79 Bath Spa 329 4.05 1.89 56.8 614
70 63 Huddersfield 326 4.12 2.10 67.4 613
71 81 De Montfort 310 4.02 2.32 52.4 610
72 80 Glasgow Caledonian 366 3.93 2.01 65.0 609
73 73 Brighton 310 4.05 2.37 58.4 608
73 88 Manchester Metropolitan 340 3.98 2.16 57.6 608
73 62 Northampton 280 4.14 1.69 57.2 608
76 76 Chichester 303 4.10 1.96 58.8 606
77 82 Bradford 317 4.00 2.34 69.5 602
78 71 Chester 301 4.11 1.74 68.6 594
79 71 Plymouth 313 4.03 2.18 57.0 589
80 90 Queen Margaret 339 3.97 1.37 69.6 587
81 82 Liverpool John Moores 327 4.04 2.15 54.2 586
82 66 Birmingham City 314 3.99 2.31 61.8 585
83 51 Royal Agricultural University 305 3.91 1.50 57.4 584
84 89 Harper Adams 342 4.09 1.95 67.3 582
84 78 Salford 328 3.91 2.36 59.1 582
84 74 Ulster 310 4.08 2.48 49.3 582
87 70 Aberystwyth 324 3.90 2.48 53.5 580
87 103 Derby 299 4.13 1.96 55.1 580
89 85 Edge Hill 306 4.15 1.50 59.6 569
90 92 Central Lancashire 332 4.01 1.96 53.6 566
91 111 Abertay 325 3.92 1.83 65.8 563
91 94 Gloucestershire 288 3.97 1.72 60.1 563
93 84 Roehampton 283 4.01 2.20 52.3 558
94 93 Middlesex 284 4.01 2.18 52.3 556
95 99 York St John 302 4.14 1.40 61.1 544
96 97 Teesside 316 4.10 1.99 53.6 540
96 87 Westminster 314 3.89 2.23 52.8 540
98 96 Cardiff Metropolitan 301 4.03 1.88 50.4 539
99 95 Greenwich 304 4.06 1.90 52.5 538
100 - South Wales 319 3.96 2.09 55.5 536
101 98 Edinburgh Napier 339 3.97 1.83 62.3 534
102 101 Leeds Metropolitan 277 3.93 2.05 59.9 531
103 99 Canterbury Christ Church 270 4.01 1.79 57.6 526
104 109 Worcester 297 4.00 1.54 62.9 518
105 113 Staffordshire 268 4.02 1.62 53.6 513
106 106 Newman 300 4.15 1.52 59.6 512
107 101 Kingston 295 3.89 2.04 56.4 510
108 110 Sunderland 298 4.02 1.86 49.2 509
109 116 St Mark and St John 271 4.14 1.08 63.5 502
110 115 Glyndwr 271 4.11 1.69 60.6 496
110 118 West London 250 3.96 1.67 62.1 496
112 112 Cumbria 285 4.04 1.23 58.8 487
113 108 Leeds Trinity 277 4.06 1.86 57.9 486
114 113 Southampton Solent 293 3.86 1.49 48.1 475
115 104 Buckinghamshire New 247 3.87 1.67 42.9 460
116 105 Anglia Ruskin 248 3.95 2.07 60.7 445
117 107 Bedfordshire 225 3.92 2.09 53.1 439
118 116 Bishop Grosseteste 272 4.14 1.19 66.4 429
119 120 West of Scotland 293 3.95 1.84 56.2 426
120 119 London South Bank 231 3.91 2.24 55.0 421
121 121 Bolton 266 3.98 1.75 52.9 411
122 124 East London 269 3.96 2.24 42.7 372
123 121 London Metropolitan 232 3.83 1.84 44.6 329

http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings

Wrong again.

What's that...a list of best pre-school centers? Anybody can make shit up.

Don't be a twit, The Complete University Guide is hardly for schools, and I put the link on if you can manage to read it.

Original Quill wrote:What's that...a list of best pre-school centers?  Anybody can make shit up.  

Lol quill seriously? You think sassy just sat and complied it over a cup of coffee??
Or some other "person" made it up?
That was a dumbass thing to say.

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Come on mate, I know when I have dug myself a hole and felt cournered.
Let it be mate.

Brasidas wrote:

eddie wrote:It's a form of envy didge

In every aspect Eddie.
America is in every aspect a young nation founded actually on many British principles, they just do not have our wonderful history and are thus Jealous of this.
What they have is a short history which apart from the two world wars which was great, the rest is not much to write home about.
Put it this way, the disparity in welath between Blacksn and whites in the US today is greater than it ever was under Apartheid South Africa.

I'm astonished at that Didge. Have you got a link to where that came from as I'd like to read up it.

Thanks

Irn Bru wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

In every aspect Eddie.
America is in every aspect a young nation founded actually on many British principles, they just do not have our wonderful history and are thus Jealous of this.
What they have is a short history which apart from the two world wars which was great, the rest is not much to write home about.
Put it this way, the disparity in welath between Blacksn and whites in the US today is greater than it ever was under Apartheid South Africa.

I'm astonished at that Didge. Have you got a link to where that came from as I'd like to read up it.

Thanks

Are you?


The median net worth for black households is $4,955, or about 4.5 percent of whites’ median household wealth, which was $110, 729 in 2010, according to Census data.   Racial inequality in apartheid South Africa reached its zenith in 1970 when black households’ median net worth represented 6.8 percent of whites’, according to an analysis of government data by Sampie Terreblanche, professor emeritus of economics at Stellenbosch University.

https://jonjeter.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/worse-than-apartheid-black-in-obamas-america-3/

Brasidas wrote:

Irn Bru wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

In every aspect Eddie.
America is in every aspect a young nation founded actually on many British principles, they just do not have our wonderful history and are thus Jealous of this.
What they have is a short history which apart from the two world wars which was great, the rest is not much to write home about.
Put it this way, the disparity in welath between Blacksn and whites in the US today is greater than it ever was under Apartheid South Africa.

I'm astonished at that Didge. Have you got a link to where that came from as I'd like to read up it.

Thanks

Are you?


The median net worth for black households is $4,955, or about 4.5 percent of whites’ median household wealth, which was $110, 729 in 2010, according to Census data.   Racial inequality in apartheid South Africa reached its zenith in 1970 when black households’ median net worth represented 6.8 percent of whites’, according to an analysis of government data by Sampie Terreblanche, professor emeritus of economics at Stellenbosch University.

https://jonjeter.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/worse-than-apartheid-black-in-obamas-america-3/

I'll look into that and get back to you.

Ta

Irn Bru wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

Are you?


The median net worth for black households is $4,955, or about 4.5 percent of whites’ median household wealth, which was $110, 729 in 2010, according to Census data.   Racial inequality in apartheid South Africa reached its zenith in 1970 when black households’ median net worth represented 6.8 percent of whites’, according to an analysis of government data by Sampie Terreblanche, professor emeritus of economics at Stellenbosch University.

https://jonjeter.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/worse-than-apartheid-black-in-obamas-america-3/

I'll look into that and get back to you.

Ta

So, in other words I guess you are in shock.
I was too mate.

Brasidas wrote:

Irn Bru wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

Are you?


The median net worth for black households is $4,955, or about 4.5 percent of whites’ median household wealth, which was $110, 729 in 2010, according to Census data.   Racial inequality in apartheid South Africa reached its zenith in 1970 when black households’ median net worth represented 6.8 percent of whites’, according to an analysis of government data by Sampie Terreblanche, professor emeritus of economics at Stellenbosch University.

https://jonjeter.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/worse-than-apartheid-black-in-obamas-america-3/

I'll look into that and get back to you.

Ta

So, in other words I guess you are in shock.
I was too mate.

Not quite shock until I see if that really is the case.

Irn Bru wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

Are you?


The median net worth for black households is $4,955, or about 4.5 percent of whites’ median household wealth, which was $110, 729 in 2010, according to Census data.   Racial inequality in apartheid South Africa reached its zenith in 1970 when black households’ median net worth represented 6.8 percent of whites’, according to an analysis of government data by Sampie Terreblanche, professor emeritus of economics at Stellenbosch University.

https://jonjeter.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/worse-than-apartheid-black-in-obamas-america-3/

I'll look into that and get back to you.

Ta

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It may be important to take into account the fact that African Americans only account for around 14% of the US pop, compared to Black South Africans who account for approximately 80% of the SA pop. Once this is taken into consideration, you then begin to realise that things are actually much worse for the Black South African.

Irn Bru wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

So, in other words I guess you are in shock.
I was too mate.

Not quite shock until I see if that really is the case.

I suggest you look into it further.
Even sassy has fucked up here basing an inept argument of GDP.
Seriously, hep her mate.

Brasidas wrote:

Irn Bru wrote:

Brasidas wrote:

So, in other words I guess you are in shock.
I was too mate.

Not quite shock until I see if that really is the case.

I suggest you look into it further.
Even sassy has fucked up here basing an inept argument of GDP.
Seriously, hep her mate.

I will Didge and I'll let you know how I get on.

On the other subject of GDP can you show me where this was discussed?

eddie wrote:

Original Quill wrote:What's that...a list of best pre-school centers?  Anybody can make shit up.  

Lol quill seriously? You think sassy just sat and complied it over a cup of coffee??
Or some other "person" made it up?
That was a dumbass thing to say.

It doesn't really matter, does it?  I don't care; sassi obviously does...she wants to make an issue of something that is completely, meaningless nonsense.  What, she doesn't like Celts?  Or she doesn't like Scots?  What is her big contention?  It was just a casual exchange of one or two lines with didge about admiring Cents, that's all.

So, to prove some point that totally escapes me, she's cut and pasted some meaningless list, which is supposed to be impressive for its shear size.  No principles.  No reasons at all.  Not even an explanation or argument for it.  Just bulk.  Then she slaps on a title and dusts around the edges.   Would you walk into court with the argument like that?  One has no idea what point she is even addressing.

Haven't you learned sassi's tricks yet?  She is a stalker...she decides on her target, and will do anything to start some meaningless argument...endlessly, god save us all.  Remember the Golden Gate Bridge thread--jeese, 16 pages of nothing.  As I say, I don't care if I ever talk to her, let alone engage in some stupid argument arising out of a half-whimsical comment about Celts--and some best-exotic-grand list she has that means nothing.  You deal with her...I've got a life!