Two Shocking Racist Crimes

As far as I am aware, the crimes I am about to describe did not make the national newspapers at all. Both are horrific, the first indescribably so, and both followed a pattern which is increasing in this country - they were carried out by black criminals against white people.

There was no outcry, however. Judge for yourself whether or not there should have been.

• A couple were subjected to a brutal attack in their own home in Clapham, which included rape, torture and extreme violence.

A 26-year-old woman was leaving her flat in Clapham half an hour after midnight on October 26, 2008, the court was told.

As she was getting into her car, she heard a noise in the bushes.

Before she was able to close the door, a man started to walk towards her.

He demanded she give him money but she had none.

He was followed by several more men and one of the suspects covered her head and forced her to go back inside the flat, accompanied by all of them.

They forced her to send a text to her boyfriend to ask him to come over.

While they waited, they ate and drank food from her fridge.

When he arrived, they demanded money from him and he said he did not have any.

They tied his hands with his own belt and began to torture him.

One of the suspects took the woman to the bedroom where he forced her to perform oral sex while holding a gun to her head.

Over the next few hours, he repeatedly raped her as she heard her boyfriend screaming in the next room.

The male victim was repeatedly kicked and punched.

Computer cable was wrapped around his throat.

He was then repeatedly struck on the head and face with a metal object believed to be a firearm, while a towel was kept over his head.

A hot iron was pressed against his forehead and thigh, and then lemon juice and bleach were poured and rubbed in to his injuries.

Both victims were subjected to a three-hour sustained attack, before the suspects eventually left, stealing both cars, a black Skype 3G mobile phone, a black Nokia mobile phone, £220 cash and keys.

Detective Inspector Mick Foote, of the Met’s Specialist Crime Directorate, said: “Both victims were subjected to unnecessary physical violence in their own home.

"They were targeted for money and then assaulted over and over again, despite saying they had no money.

“The defendants took a small amount of property, including mobile phones, and made their escape by stealing the victims' cars.

"It was immediately reported to police and within a short time both cars were recovered.

“We found a cigarette butt in the bedroom and it contained DNA relating to the two men in court today.

“Both victims have suffered a very traumatic event.

"However, I would like to reassure the public that such crimes are very rare.”

Well, I am reassured to know such crimes are very rare - but not very reassured by the fact that only two of the men involved were caught, and then received only nine years in prison each.

Here are the two men jailed, Reon Hall, aged 20, and Aaron Fitzgerald Gelly, aged 20.

Now, imagine if the races of the victims and attackers were reversed. Would this have made the national press? Would race and racism alone have been seen as enough of a clear motive for the extreme, gratuitous violence involved?

You decide.

• A 15 year old schoolboy was hit over the head and slashed across the chest with a knife as he walked to school by suspects described as three black males. Police confirmed that robbery was not a motive - and are now searching in vain for what that motive might have been.

A 15-year-old boy was slashed across the chest with a blade as he walked to school.

The pupil at Nottingham Emmanuel School, in West Bridgford, was attacked as he walked from the Meadows area at 8.30am yesterday.

Police confirmed the attack happened in woodland near Main Road, Wilford, after the boy had crossed the Toll Bridge.

Police are hunting for three black males in their late teens wearing black hooded tops.

They hit the boy over the head before slashing him as he tried to defend himself.

The boy told officers he saw a shiny blade and was slashed across the chest before escaping to his school nearby, bloodied and in shock.

Emergency services were called by staff and the boy was taken to hospital for treatment. He was discharged after receiving internal and external stitches.

Police said robbery was not a factor. They are working with the school and Nottingham City Council to determine a motive.