Crime in Kirkby

What the papers don't tell you

Burglars decided to break into a house in the Scoter Road area of Northwood on Sunday 31st Nov. The latest act of anti community crime saw thieves reportedly smash some of the stolen property in the street. The road is a fairly quiet residential road. Yet in the past few weeks and months a number of unpublicised crimes/attacks have occurred including KHT residents being targeted by a gang and a car being set on fire (and exploding) only a couple of weeks ago. Several other cars in the vicinity have been damaged, plus there has been a spate of petty vandalism. Kirkby Times warned that the setting up of exclusion zones, whilst having few youth facilities, was going to make things worse.

No-one likes a common house burglar

Incidents like this burglary would not make the Liverpool Echo, but they are the sort of incidents which needs publicising, and if the burglars or there mates are reading Kirkby Times, you'll certainly appear here if caught, which is only a matter of time on the law of averages. No-one likes a common house burglar. We only hope the police have taken the steps to recover the forensic evidence, as it would not surprise you if the burglars have left there 'dabs' at the scene of the crime, despite having watched 10,000 movies portraying burglars and criminals on the TV wearing gloves whilst 'in the act'. In a recent case when a car was smashed up in the same area, the police tuned up two days after it had been towed away to 'take fingerprints'. This is just not good enough and there are many similar cases were police response times are not good enough. Either way, though changes are needed all round, its not the local 'plod' forcing windows in Northwood and stealing the property of hard working people here who have little property to begin with, and many unable to afford house insurance. Robbing off your own in this manner is about the lowest of the low. People who burgle off there own, are the dregs of the community. It's about time the pathetic Kirkby Extra (with a full front page ad for alcohol!!!) or the former Knowsley Challenge now named 'The Challenge' actually spoke out. Reading those papers you would be forgiven for thinking burglary had ended and some Golden Age had descended upon us here in Kirkby. Our councillors should be actually patrolling the streets, (there the places were you knock before elections - remember?) and making sure there patches are free of burglars and kids smashing in the windows of anyone not connected to someone 'hard'.

It is a fact of life that where there is poverty, crime will become a means of income to some. Years ago, most criminals or robbers or your local genuine hard man, would look down on the scum who rob off there own. Sadly, even the criminals own morals have fell by the wayside, and the kids or young lads who targeted this honest working class family, may well have been able to shift the property they stole to LOCAL PEOPLE.

How Serious Crime is Hidden from the Community

Kirkby Magistrates Court should never have been closed down, because when local courts close, local people miss out on the opportunity to read the daily list of offenders and offences. We also miss out on the chance to judge the effectiveness of local police and magistrates. How do we know how they are performing? Nowadays we don't know who some of the baddies necessarily are in Kirkby. Especially the really sly ones like sex offenders. These people LOVE the fact that they are not actually tried locally in a local court. Why should the honest decent working class people be denied a chance to see these people get sent down? If justice is done it has to BE SEEN TO BE DONE.

In recent months, two Kirkby men were arrested then charged with extremely serious sexual offences. The two (and there might be more for all we know) allegedly committed very serious sexual offences involving children. One of the co-defendants, decided, it seems, to pass judgment on himself. Accidental death so our sources inform us. The other offender is on remand awaiting trial. His denials, perhaps poised to come colliding with the solid foundation of patiently and carefully collected evidence, gathered by dedicated cops whose efforts we will hopefully be first to congratulate them on if the evidence sticks. These policemen have served the community, and we hope and pray that the evil these officers have had to endure is cast away as common sense and justice prevails. Merseyside's new Chief Constable, we hope, will have taken onboard the failures of other forces as regards child sex offenders sometimes slipping the net. Hopefully he might agree with the decent working class people of Merseyside that those who do seriously abuse children should not be getting out of jail. To decide whether these people should be allowed in the community is perhaps something the communities could and should be in control of.

Child Abusers Not Welcome In Kirkby

Any locals out there, or other people who think that they can abuse children and get away with it, are very much mistaken. Time is not on your side. You will be caught. You will go to jail. Posters will be placed prominently in local businesses and pubs warning people as to your dangerous presence if need be. You will never live in Kirkby again, and once your name is circulated to all those hard men out there who have an almost psychopathic hatred of child abusers, it is in effect the most effective anti social behavioural order in town. If we had a local magistrate's court we'd ALL know who these people were. It's like the politicians are denying us the chance to actually have justice in the community. Kirkby Times will document fully the trial of this local offender when it comes up, someone has already publicly alerted the immediate community but as stated the offender or accused (we have to say accused until he is found guilty) is now on remand (he was free for a while) and not a danger to our community or any other right now. Once the court hearing brings a verdict, a copy of the final report and photographs of the accused (with permission from the family) will be published here on Kirkby Times and circulated widely on the internet. Needless to say - our hearts go out to the family.

Coming Soon: David Henshaw in Australia. We trace the devious Rasputin of Liverpool Council (formerly Knowsley) to Australia and find him talking absolute utter garbage. Er, business as usual then. Another day - another free lunch.

Crime in Kirkby.

What the papers don't tell you

No-one likes a common house burglar

How Serious Crime is Hidden from the Community

Child Abusers Not Welcome In Kirkby