"Asylum Seekers" Protest in Malta

A truly extraordinary article appeared in yesterday's Times of Malta:

Around 70 Sudanese migrants living in Malta turned up at the offices of the UN Refugee Agency this morning to protest against the slow process of resettlement to other EU countries.

Farouk Bebekir, 28, said the government seemed to prefer resettling other East Africans to keep Sudanese in Malta because they are hard-working, adaptable and can communicate in Maltese.

“But there is no future here,” he said, pointing out that permanent work was difficult to find and bills were constantly increasing.

“We have been here six years and we don’t get any help. Others have gone to Europe to become doctors and we are still here, struggling to pay water and electricity bills.”

Good lord - lucky Malta - but poor old everyone else, missing out on the this particular chunk of enrichment. Apparently, every semi-literate Third World chancer who gets out of Malta goes on to become a doctor!

They must have quite an education system there. Obviously, an alternative view is that it is beneath contempt for any self-respecting newspaper to repeat this utter propagandistic drivel verbatim.

I must say I have some sympathy for Farouk; just look at what he's missing out on:

He added that refugees who are resettled to other EU countries can get a passport to travel and can even bring over their families to live with them and build a future together. But in Malta, they cannot travel freely and have not seen their family members in six years.

“If the government wants to keep us here, the conditions must improve. We need to be given help to find good work and job training. We need to get benefits Maltese employees get and we need to be able to travel.”

He added that if they could not be resettled and the situation in Malta did not improve, they would probably prefer to go back to Darfur and die there.

“At least we will die in our country with our friends and family not here alone, with nothing.”

As you can see, the benefits - for the immigrants - are innumerable. I'm not quite so sure what the rest of us are getting out of it, but then that's hardly new.

I particularly enjoyed the "if the government wants to keep us here..." line - I was rather under the impression that they all just turned up illegally and the government and people of Malta didn't have too much say in the matter. However the likes of Farouk may like to delude himself, I highly doubt engraved invitations were sent out.

Obviously, it would never have occurred to Farouk and the countless others that perhaps they should have stayed and strived to improve their own country; no, far better to travel to someone else's and then throw petulant fits because you haven't been elevated to the status you think you deserve or offered a free ride to an even more lucrative destination.

The insanity continues, however:

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the UNHCR, Fabrizio Ellul, explained that the process for resettlement took long but the agency did not discriminate between nationals of different countries.

“Twenty per cent of Sudanese have been resettled,” he said, adding that this was not a low figure compared to other nationalities.

He stressed, however, that resettlement was not a right and if countries offered to take migrants from Malta the decision of who to take was theirs.

Countries generally take vulnerable migrants who find difficulty integrating.

The UNHCR spokesman added that integration programmes needed to be improved for people who had to stay in Malta at least until they are resettled.

A meeting was held this morning between Sudanese representatives and the UNHCR while another one is scheduled for Friday.

Hmm. Nice work if you can get it; how about we just save everyone the bother and improve repatriation programmes instead?

That way, knowing they would be thwarted at every turn by the proper authorities, the illegal immigrants would largely stop coming in the first place.

Just a thought - might leave Fabrizio out of a job though.

"Global Education"

The British Council aims to establish 4,600 "links" between schools in Britain and the Third World by 2012, in an attempt to educate children about other cultures. Apparently, "government schemes to promote global education" fund such initiatives.

Things aren't quite going to plan so far, however. It seems that certain pupils in Britain have come away from these lessons with the idea that Third World countries are failed states rife with poverty and corruption.

Could this be because teachers spend so much time telling them that Third Worlders are victims of Western evil, incapable of helping themselves without vast sums of our money?

The article doesn't speculate - but it does tell us that some of these accurate perceptions are simply racist and neocolonialist and must be altered by a "different way of thinking."

Presumably that would be a different way of thinking whereby these Third World countries must be given our help in every conceivable sense, but are immune from our criticism lest the magic "R" word be used.

Of course, many of these statements are also the confused ideas of children - but to the Leftist ideologue, there are no children, just mini-adults and potential future racists whose way of thinking must be altered at all costs.

From The Evening Standard:

School links between the UK and the developing world can leave children with “racist” views of other cultures, research has found.

British pupils believe that their peers there are covered in flies and all wear straw skirts as lessons focus too much on poverty, the study said.

Academics warned that badly trained teachers in subjects such as geography were fuelling “neocolonialist” views.

Growing numbers of state schools have formed partnerships around the world under government schemes to promote global education.

The British Council aims to establish 4,600 links by 2012.

Researchers asked English children about their Gambian peers.

The pupils said: “They don't wear much clothes, they wear straw. The boys wear skirts too.”

Other responses, reported in The Times Educational Supplement, included: “Gross things like flies go in their mouths. Because their mouths are brown and the flies think their mouths are made of mud.”

Dr Fran Martin, from Exeter University, who led the study, said: “There needs to be a different way of thinking to avoid partnerships having these neocolonialist or racist undertones.”

The way I look at it is that facts are facts. Ideology can hide reality up to a point, but not very well and certainly not forever.

If you teach British children about the Third World, they're going to learn about the Third World, no matter what spin is put on it.

To use the example from the article, either Gambia is a thriving, successful modern nation, or it is not.

Clearly, it is not, and the reasons for that are clear to all but die hard Leftists, and thus this brainwashing might have the opposite effect to that intended - it might wake up future generations to the fact that all cultures are not equal. At all.

Somali Youth Centre Upsets the Neighbours

This story concerns rowdy Somali youth using khat, which is not illegal in Britain, at a youth centre in South Norwood.

Most of the comments on the article are sympathetic to the 'plight' of the youths, with no mention at all about legitimate worries and why anywhere in Britain should need a Somali youth centre.

From This is Croydon:

A bid to allow a community centre to continue to operate in South Norwood has antagonised neighbours who say youths under the influence of a legal drug are causing mayhem.

The Somaal Youth Association, which was set up to offer young Somalis in Croydon a place to come together, is hoping to be given formal permission to run its youth club and activities centre in Portland Road.

But critics have accused the centre, which has already been operating for around four months, of promoting anti-social behaviour and use of the hallucinogenic drug khat - which is banned in most European countries but not the UK.

Although the Somaal Youth Association admits many members do chew khat, it denies claims of bad behaviour, and says it would be happy to meet with people who are worried about the application.

Chairman Abdi Mahamud said: "This thing is needed by Somalis, there are a lot of young Somalis who live around South Norwood.

"A lot of Somali youths are deprived of something like this, where they can come and watch football and socialise in the evenings."

Mr Mahamud, 25, feels "victimised" by the opposition.

He said: "I think people see groups of young black youths and think the worst.

"But we are looking to organise a meeting so people can come in and find out about what we're about and what we're doing.

"We want to get on well with our neighbours."

Asked about use of khat, which has been likened to ecstasy by drug experts, Mr Mahamud said: "It just makes you chill out.

"It doesn't cause anti-social behaviour. But in the long term we are trying to stop it, we don't want people to make it into a negative thing about us."

The retrospective application is expected to be decided on by Croydon Council next month.

When neighbours learned of the bid to get the centre sanctioned, it sparked a petition calling for the plans to be rejected.

Hasan Murtada, who lives nearby, said: "The petition hasn't been done for no reason, it's been done because it's a nuisance.

"We shouldn't have to put with this. My girlfriend can't even go down the shops because she is being intimidated."

Councillor Karen Jewitt, who represents the Woodside ward, is backing the residents opposing the community centre.

She said: "They've opened it up without any permission, and I've been getting loads of complaints about people using khat.

"There's a lot of people hanging around outside there.

"The one thing people are frightened of is that this will make them seem racists. That's got nothing to do with it, it's just that they're worried about this."

Sergeant Dave Humphrey, who heads the Woodside Safer Neighbourhood Team, is well aware of the centre.

He said: "We've been policing it as often as we can. Whenever we've been down there, there haven't been any problems.

"Khat isn't illegal, so there's not much we can do about that."

So, it looks like rowdy behaviour is predictably a problem there too.

Khat might not be illegal, but i think importing large numbers of Somalis should be.

Cultural Enrichment in Sweden

Two disturbing stories of cultural enrichment in Sweden, from the Politiskt Inkorrekt blog:


1) A man from the Congo has been sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in prison for brutally attacking and raping two women:

An 18-year-old man was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for assaulting and raping two young women in northwestern Stockholm.

Earlier in the summer, the man was suspected of being behind a series of violent rapes in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta. However, police could only connect the man to two of the cases, a brutal attack of a young woman in Spånga on May 3rd and a similar attack of another young woman in Spånga on May 25th.

The man has now been convicted of aggravated rape and attempted rape. He has also been ordered to pay 182,000 ($26,000) to both victims. After serving his sentence, the man may not return to Sweden prior to 2024.

The man is an international fugitive and has an extradition request has been filed by authorities in Belgium, where he is suspected of raping at least five women. In the attack on May 3rd, the man broke into the woman's residence, hit her 30 times in the head, got a stranglehold on her neck and violently forced her to perform oral sex.

During the trial, the woman testified about the humiliation, the brutal violence and the fear she felt. She was convinced that the man was going to kill her. The second attack occurred in a similar manner, but the woman was able to yell for help and put up so much resistance that the man gave up and fled.

The man, Huguel Kitenge Bunka, has committed similar offences and violent robberies in Belgium, and is suspected of perpetrating similar rapes in Sweden which cannot be proven. In the Swedish language press there is also more detail about the violence used against the victims:

Assault Rape in Tensta, in spring and the man is under Stockholm Police have exercised a strong force on their victims. Assault Rape in Tensta, in spring and the Man is in Stockholm Police have Exercised a strong force on their victims. At one point he pushed himself into a woman's apartment, gave her some 30 blows to the head after which he raped her.

At one point he pushed himself into a woman's apartment, gave her some 30 blows to the head after Which he raped her.

Serial rapist from Congo, an 18-year-old, was arrested in southern Sweden this summer after an investigation. Serial rapist from Congo, an 18-year-old, was arrested in southern Sweden this summer after an investigation. When we started investigating the man the police discovered that he was internationally wanted on suspicion of committing five rapes and robberies in Belgium.

When we started investigating the man the police discovered that he was internationally wanted on suspicion of committing five Rapes and robberies in Belgium.

Belgium, 21 April 2009: rape.
Belgium, 20 April 2009: rape.
Belgium, 26 May 2008: rape.
Belgium, 29 February 2008: rape.
Belgium, 28 October 2007: rape.
Belgium, 27 October 2007: robbery.

In custody negotiations in Solna District Court June 25 the man managed to escape.

With handcuffs on, he ran away from personnel and police were looking for him for several hours. With Handcuffs on, he ran away from personnel and police were looking for him for several hours. He had been hiding in a store and was found by a plainclothes police. He had been hiding in a store and was found by a plain clothes police.

2) An Iraqi family claimed nearly 1 million Kroner in benefits after claiming their son was disabled:

The family alleged that their son was disabled and managed to get around four million in grants. But there is a problem: he is perfectly healthy. His father and sisters, was employed as personal assistants, and between 1 November 2005 and January 31, 2009 the family could collect the millions in compensation from the insurance fund.

When the police for another reason, did a search of the family's apartment, they found a digital camera with some 30 private images from Liseberg amusement park where 33-year-old was seen unhindered.

The family realized crisis - and suddenly one of the sisters an hysterical attack. The police are convinced that it was orchestrated to divert attention. - We had to concentrate on her. Meanwhile, another person deleted the pictures, "said police inspector Kjell Borgström. But the memory was to recreate. The mother, father and son are now suspected on probable cause for serious fraud.

The man's parents are Swedish citizens, but not 33-year-old, who came to Canada about five years ago. It is during this time that the family received grants from the National Insurance. - Actually, he did not enter the country if there were distressing reasons. Then it was alleged that he was injured in a car accident and needed daily omsyn. He would reportedly be paralyzed the entire right side. He would be confined to a wheelchair and could not walk, eat or sit, "says Karl-Arne Ockell, chief investigator on the fraud squad in Halland Police Unit for serious crimes.

The man has convinced his surroundings that he can not move. - Now we have a movie that shows when the man is out jogging, he dances and he carries the child. He is obviously healthy. How long has he been there I do not know, "says Ockell. When the police took the father in the family for questioning and showed the film with his son jogging, he cracked. - The father of the family would neither admit nor deny the advice of his lawyer. If there is only the father or some family members I request custody I do not know right now.

Family
* Ali Samir Husein, born 76-07-16, 33-year-old
* Najat Al-Etbi, born 58-05-16, the mother
* Abdallha Husein, born 49-03-15, the father

Missing, Presumed on Benefits

From The Northern Echo:

POLICE are investigating after a fourth member of an African exchange programmed went missing in the North-East.

Konjit Assefa, of Ethiopia, was visiting Hartlepool, as part of a Global Xchange, when she disappeared.

The 22-year-old, who was staying on the Headland, has not been seen since Tuesday. She was last seen in the town centre at around 12pm.

Three men on the same programme disappeared following a tour of the Houses of Parliament, in London, on July 15.

A spokesman for Cleveland Police urged anyone with any information about Ms Assefas whereabouts to get in touch.

He added: "At the time of her disappearance she is believed to have been wearing stone washed jeans with a black and grey hooded top and was carrying a small black and red rucksack."

Ms Assefa, who is originally from Awasa in Ethiopia, is the fourth member of the volunteer exchange programme to go missing.

Zerihun Weldeyohans Alaro, 24, later contacted organisers after staying with family in London, but was deported.

However, exchange visitors Habtamu Debella, 27, and Muluneh Tilahun, 21, are still missing.

Officers have checked hospitals, hostels and CCTV in an effort to find them, but have so far been unable to locate them.

They were reported missing by programme organisers after they failed to turn up to their accommodation on July 15 and also for the return train journey back to Hartlepool the following day.

The Global Xchange (CORR) programme involves 18 volunteers, nine from the UK and nine from Ethiopia, living in Hartlepool while working for community organisations.

The team is on the second part of the exchange, having already spent three months in Africa.

This is far from a unique event, however:

Scottish Athletics has confirmed that four Ethiopian athletes have fled their London hotel ahead of Wednesday's Falkirk Cup event in Grangemouth.

The athletes absconded from their hotel and failed to make a connecting flight from London to Edinburgh.

The missing individuals are Betelhem Shewatatek, Feleke Bekele, Hagos Tadesse and Tirehas Haileselassie.

"This is a sad thing to happen for my country and the sport," said Dagmawit Amare of the Ethiopian management team.

"My colleague actually tried to restrain two of them, but they ran off."

Recently, a number of African youth footballers went missing on a trip to Sweden. During the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, half of Sierra Leone's squad of 22 disappeared. Some more details of such activity from the BBC:

2002 Commonwealth Games: 21 Sierra Leoneans, 5 Bangladeshis, 1 Pakistani missing in Manchester

2002 Asian Games: 12 Nepalese, 3 Sri Lankans and 1 Mongolian missing in S Korea

2000 Sydney Olympics: 80 officials and athletes overstay visas, 11 cases unresolved

The Violence Continues in South Africa

The following two stories concern two incredibly brutal, racist killings in rural South Africa.

The first concerns the death of an elderly farmer as his family looked on helpless, the second the murder of a young mother.

1) From News 24:

Pretoria - With a four-day-old baby in her arms, a woman from Pretoria had to watch as robbers kicked and beat her father-in-law to death.

On Monday night, robbers presumably first set fire to a field across the smallholding belonging to Wilhelm Lotterie, 65, in Doornfontein, north of Pretoria.

It is believed this was done to lure Lotterie's sons, Piet and Neels from their homes. Then Lotterie, who had been sitting on his stoep, was attacked, assaulted and robbed by five men.

Lotterie's daughter-in-law, Jessica Lotterie, 23, and her baby boy Danté, who was born last Thursday, were also in the house.

Police spokesperson Captain Jan Sepato said the robbers forced Lotterie, who had a heart problem and underwent heart surgery about nine years ago, to lie down on the living room floor, after which they tied his hands and feet behind his back.

Lotterie's pants were pulled down to his knees.

Due to Lotterie's heart problem, he wasn't meant to lie down, said Sepato.

Apparently the robbers asked Jessica if there were any other people in the house. She said her husband and brother-in-law were trying to extinguish the fire.

While the robbers waited for the Lotterie brothers, they beat Wilhelm with, among others, a firearm butt, and kicked him where he lay on the ground.

When the brothers returned home, the robbers tied them up respectively in the toilet and the bathroom.

According to Sepato, the robbers fled with money, electrical appliances, cellphones, a Ford Fiesta (with the registration number WHF 052 GP) and meat they took from the freezer.

Paramedics found Lotterie dead at the scene. Sepato said he had suffocated.

Jan Vermaak, who lives about 1km from the Lotteries, said he had just come home and stepped into a bath after he had helped to douse the flames, when he heard shouting outside.

"I sent my sons with torches to see what was going on."

"They came back and said it was a woman who was screaming."

"I then found Jessica, Piet and the baby where they were standing in the road."

"She told me they had been attacked and that her father-in-law had been beaten and kicked to death."

"They were in a severe state of shock."

Vermaak took Jessica to his house, and then, along with other residents in the area, patrolled the area in an attempt to catch the robbers. They were unsuccessful.

No-one has been arrested yet.

2) From The Times (SA):

FIVE days after “flower child” Tracey-Leigh Frankish’s screams scared off would-be burglars, house robbers struck again, this time taking her life.

A TV set, hi-fi and a small amount of money were the only things stolen from the 33-year-old Gauteng sales representative’s cottage in Farmall, an agricultural holding north of Fourways.

Johan Burger, senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, who last year co-authored a report on crime and public security in South Africa, said the murder highlighted how political promises had not been kept as far as the eradication of farm attacks was concerned.

“The conclusion we came to in our report was that there was a vacuum [in crime-fighting regarding] rural safety.”

Burger said this was a result of the phasing out of South African National Defence Force units, or commandos, deployed specifically to patrol rural areas in South Africa since 2003.

“[The phasing out] was not supposed to happen until sector policing, police reservists and crime-combating units were in place. In almost all [rural areas] we visited in our research, none of this had been done,” Burger added.

Frankish’s murder means that her seven-year-old son, Taidg, will grow up without a mother.

The break-in happened in the early hours of Sunday morning, when Taidg was with his grandparents, Fred and Helen Britz, at their Bryanston home.

“We’ve told him what happened, but I don’t think he realises what death is all about,” Fred Britz said.

“He said: ‘They’ve killed my mom, they shot her’. It’s tough, the circumstances of her death. We never thought it would happen to us.”

Frankish, who was in the process of divorcing her husband, who lives in the UK, had been leasing a cottage on a plot.

Private security company RSS Security responded to a panic signal followed by an alarm signal at 12.47pm.

A security officer who arrived at the premises six minutes later found the security gate on the front door had been forced open.

Frankish was found kneeling in front of her bed, with a gunshot wound in the head.

“When the security officer went outside to radio for medical back-up he saw three suspects fleeing into the bushes and gave chase,” said RSS Security managing director Sean Mooney.

The unidentified men got away.

Dion Stephens, a school friend, told The Times that Frankish had been a humanitarian.

“She wanted to fix the world we live in, quit her job, teach people how to grow vegetables and live a self-sustainable life. The people she wanted to help were the people who murdered her,” he said.

Friends have been posting messages on Frankish’s Facebook page, where Stephens yesterday asked people to honour her memory by wearing purple or turquoise, “her favourite colours”, to her memorial service.

Dean Dawson, of food manufacturing company Ma Baker, where Frankish worked, said staff were distraught at her murder.

“It feels surreal. It’s disturbing. She was a flower-power child, if I can put it that way, friendly to everybody.”

Douglasdale police spokesman Inspector Balan Muthan confirmed a murder case was under investigation.

“There are no suspects. The front door was left unlocked. Police and the security firm reacted within minutes, but the suspects had fled and the area is so dark at night,” Muthan said.

A memorial service is being planned at the Emmarentia Botanical Gardens in northern Johannesburg this weekend.

Hat tip: Sarah Maid of Albion.

Pervert Teacher Keith Ogunsola Spared Jail

I have written previously about the case of Keith Ogunsola, a Nigerian-born science teacher convicted of sexually assaulting a young schoolgirl in his charge, and who seems to have gotten away with or been 'warned' about very inappropriate behaviour many times before - dating back to 2000.

Today a judge spared him from jail - citing his bad heart. This is also the debut of this case in the mainstream media, a month and a half after I began following it here.

The judge had previously told Ogunsola that a jail sentence was inevitable - and despite praising the bravery of the young victim, clearly showed his contempt for her and the rest of us:

A science master who French kissed a 14-year-old girl and asked pupils about their sex lives was spared jail yesterday because he has a heart condition.

Keith Ogunsola, 44, grabbed the teenager in his office before kissing her as she tried to push him away.

The married father also embarrassed girl pupils during a chemistry revision class by asking if they had performed sex acts on their boyfriends.

Ogunsola had been warned last month that he faced an inevitable prison sentence.

But Judge Martyn Zeidman, QC, suspended a 12-week jail term for 12 months after reading medical reports. The judge said: 'Certainly what you have done doesn't deserve a death sentence.

'I'm just persuaded that it would be right in the circumstances of this case to suspend the sentence of imprisonment.

'You will never again be employed as a school teacher. My primary concern is to protect members of the public and other potential pupils.'

The judge praised the victim's courage, adding: 'I want to pay tribute to the girl who bravely made this complaint. She's a very impressive young lady.'

Ogunsola was banned indefinitely from working with under-18s and will be placed on the sex offenders' register for five years.

Snaresbrook Crown Court in East London heard how Ogunsola struck at the school where he taught in Ilford, Essex, on February 27 last year.

Describing her ordeal in Ogunsola's office, the girl said: 'He put his arms around my waist and said, "Do you want a kiss?"

'He pulled me close and then kissed me and put his tongue in my mouth.

'I pushed him away. He pulled me really close. He was holding my wrists and he kissed me again.'

She said she was 'shocked' by Ogunsola's advances and simply 'froze'. She said Ogunsola asked her: 'Aren't you supposed to be my Valentine?'

The girl said she reminded Ogunsolahe was married with children. 'I said, "You have got a wife and kids and I have got a boyfriend". He said, "Dump your boyfriend".'

The girl said Ogunsola had asked her about her love life, and added that other girls at the secondary school had described him as a 'pervert'.

Jurors heard how Ogunsola asked other girl pupils of 14 and 15 whether they had performed sex acts on their boyfriends. He also warned the youngsters that boys were 'only after one thing'.

A jury convicted Ogunsola, of Banstead, Surrey, of sexual assault but cleared him of an attempted

The former headmaster of the school in Surrey revealed Ogunsola had been warned about his conduct with girl pupils prior to the alleged assaults in 2000.

2005. sexual assault on a girl of 15 at the same school in February 2006. Jurors also acquitted Ogunsola of two indecent assaults on teenage girls at a school he taught at in Carshalton, Surrey, between January and May 2000.

Ogunsola left the school in Surrey in 2001 before stints at Islington Green School, North London, and the Pimlico Academy in Westminster before moving to Ilford in, Essex, on February 27 last year.

Describing her ordeal in Ogunsola's office, the girl said: 'He put his arms around my waist and said, "Do you want a kiss?"

'He pulled me close and then kissed me and put his tongue in my mouth.

'I pushed him away. He pulled me really close. He was holding my wrists and he kissed me again.'

She said she was 'shocked' by Ogunsola's advances and simply 'froze'. She said Ogunsola asked her: 'Aren't you supposed to be my Valentine?'

The girl said she reminded Ogunsolahe was married with children. 'I said, "You have got a wife and kids and I have got a boyfriend". He said, "Dump your boyfriend".'

The girl said Ogunsola had asked her about her love life, and added that other girls at the secondary school had described him as a 'pervert'.

Jurors heard how Ogunsola asked other girl pupils of 14 and 15 whether they had performed sex acts on their boyfriends. He also warned the youngsters that boys were 'only after one thing'.

A jury convicted Ogunsola, of Banstead, Surrey, of sexual assault but cleared him of an attempted sexual assault on a girl of 15 at the same school in February 2006. Jurors also acquitted Ogunsola of two indecent assaults on teenage girls at a school he taught at in Carshalton, Surrey, between January and May 2000.

Ogunsola left the school in Surrey in 2001 before stints at Islington Green School, North London, and the Pimlico Academy in Westminster before moving to Ilford in2005.

The former headmaster of the school in Surrey revealed Ogunsola had been warned about his conduct with girl pupils prior to the alleged assaults in 2000.

Muslim Kills German Woman in South Africa

Another little taste of what is in store at the 2010 World Cup as a European is possibly raped and brutally killed in South Africa for no reason at all:

Blood spatters on a wall in a dingy closet-like room in a city parking garage mark the violent murder of Kristina Gebhardt, who was beaten to death and then dumped in the boot of her car.

The German woman, who had been living in Cape Town for more than five years, would have turned 28 on Friday.

Gebhardt's bloodstained body was found in the boot of her Fiat Uno on Wednesday night.

Her hands had been bound with electrical wire, believed to have been taken from supplies belonging to a company contracted to do renovations to a building on the corner of Loop and Bloem streets in the city centre.

Police are waiting for the results of the post mortem to determine whether she was raped.

A police source revealed that one of her alleged assailants had been found driving her car in his boxer shorts and a blood-soaked T-shirt.

Gerbhardt had worked part-time shifts at the Baobab book store just metres away from where she was beaten to death.

Her employer, Julie Aitchison, told the Cape Argus she had been approached by a security guard last week and told she could use the Bloem Street basement parking.

It had been agreed that she would pay the guard R20 a day.

The book store owner had offered the parking bay to Gebhardt in her absence.

A police source said that on the day of Gebhardt's murder, an argument had allegedly ensued between Gebhardt and a security guard over the R20 payment for the parking.

The guard, arrested after Gebhardt's body was found in her car, which he had been driving, lived in a musty little room at the entrance of the basement parking lot.

Police said they were looking for two other day-shift guards.

It is believed that they had been present when the alleged argument between Gebhardt and the guard took place.

The three are alleged to have kept her captive in the little room where they allegedly bound her hands, beat her and possibly raped her.

Inside the room was a single mattress, a French tutorial, a prayer mat and prayer books. A pair of jeans was still hanging on the back of the door.

A few bloodstains were splattered against the faded cream wallpaper.

When members of a Central Improvement District (CID) patrol pulled over the driver of Gebhardt's Fiat Uno on Wednesday night, the back seats of the car had been dropped.

Her body was found shoved into the enlarged boot space.

Gebhardt's laptop computer and cellphone were missing but her wallet was still on her battered body.

More than an hour after she left work, Gebhardt's boyfriend had called her on her cellphone and had also tried the bookstore, but to no avail.

He then drove to a Loop Street coffee shop where the couple had often gone, hoping to find her there.

Instead, he had seen her green Fiat Uno being driven by a stranger, prompting him to launch himself at the car in an attempt to stop it.

The CID patrol, who had witnessed his desperate rescue attempt, had come to his aid and had forced the car to stop.

Aitshison labelled the murder a "tragic loss and waste of life".

She said she had met the "bubbly" Gebhardt through friends and had occasionally asked her to mind the book store while she was out.

"I can't begin to imagine what her family is experiencing in Germany," Aitshison said.

Another friend, Fuad Matthews, described Gebhardt as a vibrant person.

Matthews, who celebrated his birthday yesterday, said: "I wondered why she wasn't calling me. I was going to send her flowers for her birthday today.

"You could not have found a more beautiful person, inside and out. It's really not cool for any human being to experience what she did.

"Cape Town is not going to be the same again."

Police said they had very few leads because they were having difficulty identifying the two alleged accomplices and had no addresses for the men, who are still on the run.

Police spokeswoman Inspector Carin Loock said the suspect would face a murder charge when he appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Monday.

No further arrests have been made.

Two Horrific Crimes in South Africa

The first case is the recent rape, torture and murder of a young American missionary, and the second is the appalling abuse and violence meted out to an elderly white South Africa lady who miraculously survived, her main concern being her pet cat.

Such crimes are all too common - but needless to say are ignored by the British media.

1) From The Citizen:

JOHANNESBURG - Police have arrested two suspects for the gang-rape, robbery and torture of a 26-year-old American missionary who was in South Africa on a church sponsored mission to build homes for the poor.

The woman, who is presently in hospital receiving medical treatment for multiple injuries was attacked late on Tuesday evening by three men who smashed through the door of the Ballito home where she was staying.

After overpowering her, the three first sexually assaulted, then beat and gang-raped her before fleeing in a Honda motor car belonging to her church group.

Police from the office of the KwaZulu-Natal provincial commissioner, the Local Criminal Record Centre in Durban and the Umhlali Dog Unit raced to the scene and found the woman’s car abandoned.

Fingerprint experts processed the car as well as the house where the attack took place and identified the fingerprints of one of the attackers.

At the home they found the fingerprints of a man who has a previous conviction for robbery and was, until yesterday afternoon, out on bail for housebreaking. Police from the Dog Unit then proceeded to the known hideouts used by the man and arrested him and another man known to often be his accomplice.

The pair were allegedly in possession of property taken from the woman’s home.

Police are confident the third suspect would be arrested soon.

2) From IOL:

While she was bludgeoned, bitten and repeatedly hurled to the floor by a young assailant who screamed: "Who is this God you call for?" an 82-year-old Berea resident battled to fathom the horror that had invaded her lifelong home.

Ella Horne, who has lived in the wood and iron Victorian house at the corner of Sydenham and Essenwood roads since her birth, is known and loved by many residents in the area. Her home, which is almost a century old, is admired daily by passersby as a reminder of a bygone age. It is thought to be the only remaining dwelling of its kind in the city.

Horne is a former concert pianist who worked for the Daily News for 20 years until her retirement at the age of 70. Despite her advanced age she still takes an active interest in the community, does her own housework and reads newspapers avidly.

The members of St Thomas Anglican Church, of which Horne has been a member since childhood, have been particularly hard hit by news of her terrible ordeal.

Describing Horne as "very devout, and one of the most cheerful people around", congregant Charmaine Silcox said she and others had tried over the years to persuade their friend to relocate to a retirement village, without success. "The only positive aspect of this brutal event is that now she will relocate to a safer and more comfortable environment."

Horne has agreed to settle in a retirement home once she has recovered from her ordeal.

The nightmare began at 12.30pm on August 14. From her hospital bed Horne described how she was woken by the sound of breaking glass. "I went to the back of the house to investigate, and then moved to the front bedroom. As I opened the door the picture window exploded, and then he was on me, with his fingers around my throat. I didn't stand a chance."

Her assailant launched a savage and protracted attack, punching her repeatedly in the face and doing his best to strangle her. He also smashed a heavy china fruit bowl against her skull. "I prayed so hard," said Horne. "'Dear God, protect me.' Then my strength started to go. 'I'm dying,' I said. I closed my eyes and tried not to let my breathing show. He left me then, and started to trash my home. Finally it was quiet. I lay there, covered in blood, with my darling cat beside me."

The assailant ransacked the house and stole a television set, electric irons, radios and an unspecified number of other valuables. Horne was to lie unattended for more than 16 hours before a passing motorist noticed the broken window and alerted the police.

"After a very long time I heard voices, and then two policemen were by my side. They were wonderful. When the ambulance arrived, the rescue medics also treated me very gently. I cannot praise them all enough," said Horne.

Medical personnel have expressed amazement at Horne's resilience, particularly since she had a triple heart bypass some years ago. While her blood pressure was initially dangerously high, she is responding well to treatment and her brother, Stan, 86, and niece Andrea, who rushed from Gauteng to be at her side, hope that she will be discharged soon.

Margaret Horne (no relation), who has been Ella's neighbour and friend for more than 30 years, condemned the savagery of the attack, but said she was not surprised Ella had survived.

"She is a formidably strong woman, and her mind is as sound as a bell," she said.

Horne is almost more concerned with the welfare of her beloved ginger tom cat, Cheeky Boy than she is about her own plight. "He must have been so frightened. I do hope that I can find him a new home where someone else will love him as much as I have done," she said.

Of her attacker, she had this to say: "I do not hate him and I am not filled with anger. He did not know what he was doing. No one taught him right from wrong."

Her magnanimity is not shared by her neighbours and friends. Neighbour Allan Reinecke has vowed the community will clamp down on crime. "We will not take acts like this lying down. If criminals keep targeting Berea, they should be warned: we will take firm action."

Policing in the New South Africa

The sad decline of South Africa from a First to a Third World nation continues.

Nothing is driving that change quite like the incompetence and corruption found in South Africa's police force, as the following two stories demonstrate.

Here is the first, from The Herald:

TRAFFIC officers yesterday brazenly defied orders from superiors not to wear uniforms and drive official vehicles to a memorial service for the Nelson Mandela Bay traffic officer shot dead after allegedly being involved in an armed robbery at the weekend.

Mhlophe Menye died in a shoot-out after a high-speed chase following a robbery at the Metlife Plaza Wimpy Bar in Kabega Park, Port Elizabeth.

Traffic Department vehicles almost filled the parking area outside the Nangoza Jebe Hall.

A large group of uniformed officers gathered inside the hall where the service for Menye was held.

The programme for service showed the emblems of the Traffic Department and the municipality printed on the back.

The DA condemned the traffic officers’ action and the municipality has vowed to “investigate the matter and take necessary action”. DA caucus chairman Gustav Rautenbach, chairman of the safety and security portfolio committee, said the action would “tarnish the image, divide traffic officers in the metro and undermine law enforcement”.

“Its sends a negative signal to the public that all traffic officers are not to be trusted,” he said.

Departmental spokesman Luncedo Njezula said: “It is up to the director to investigate the issues around the memorial service and to take the necessary action.”

He said management opposed the use of official vehicles and the wearing of uniforms at the service.

“Management felt that given the circumstances surrounding his death it would not be wise to do so,” he said.

However he said the department had no knowledge of the insertion of municipal emblems into the programmes.

The service was addressed by colleagues who are also officials of the SA Municipal Workers Union (Samwu).

Menye was presented as a hero and praised for his “courage in fighting for the rights of workers”.

Union official Ginger Nangu said traffic officers like Menye, who “had guts to challenge the undermining of rights of workers”, were needed.

Menye’s supervisor, Mbulelo Ngwenze, was more candid, describing him as “troublesome”, “defiant” and “not easy to deal with”, but that he had carried out his duties diligently.

A union officials said the Menye issue had divided traffic officers. Those who were critical of the circumstances surrounding his death chose to boycott the service.

Menye‘s wife, children and other relatives were among those who attended the memorial service.

I often criticise the current state of Britain, but this story is simply surreal. A serving police officer being involved in an armed robbery is bad enough - but his colleagues attending his funeral in uniforms and marked vehicles, before declaring the man a hero?

That should quite simply be beyond belief. No wonder crime is soaring in South Africa if criminals and policeman perceive they are on the same side.

Here is the second story, from Africa News:

One of South Africa's police stations has been turned into a gun shop where weapons are being sold to criminals. The administrative clerk from Alexandra police station, Aubrey Tshamana, is before court for allegedly selling six R-5 rifles and 16 handguns for officers and the Sandton police station.

Detectives from the Johannesburg Organised Crime Unit are investigating whether the weapons could have been part of those used in the recent spate of violent robberies at some shopping malls. Tshamana, 26, appeared at the Alexandra Magistrate's Court on Wednesday. His case has been postponed to next week and he will be kept at high-risk holding cells.

The guns have not been recovered and it is believed they could have been sold for as little as R3 500 ($440.817) for a rifle and R1 000 ($125.716) for a handgun.

AfricaNews reporter said Tshamana could be charged with more serious crimes if any of the guns he allegedly stole are linked to armed robberies at malls.

Increasingly, gun licences are hard for civilians to get hold of in South Africa, and thus formerly legal weapons have to be handed in to the police.

Are the public, including vulnerable groups like white farmers, being systematically disarmed simply so the police can sell the guns to criminals?

The circular insanity simply beggars belief - or should.

Angolan Wren Smuggled Cocaine into the UK Aboard Royal Navy Ship

Several newspaper failed to mention that the Royal Navy member arrested and charged for smuggling £5 million worth of cocaine into Britain aboard an active warship was an Angolan national - to my knowledge, only The Sun revealed this initially.

Is this relevant? Well, as the Armed Forces increasingly look to recruit abroad, it is almost a certainty standards will slip, and why shouldn't they?

Why should foreign nationals, especially those that don't even share the Queen as Head of State, be loyal to this country or its interests?

Another factor is that this is the kind of thing that happens when top brass only care about diversity targets and how colourful the place looks - rather than recruiting on ability, competence and quality alone.

The full story:

A Royal Navy Wren has been charged with drug-smuggling after bags of cocaine worth around £5million were allegedly found in her quarters.

Teresa Mato, 36, was arrested on board the HMS Manchester as it docked in Plymouth on its return from an anti-narcotics training operation in South America.

The Wren - a former refugee from Angola in South Africa - was arrested after customs officers searched her locker and allegedly found 12kg of cocaine sewn in packages into vests and around rucksacks.

The drugs haul would have a street value of £5million once it was 'cut' or bulked out with additives.

Bags of cocaine worth £5m were found on board Royal Navy warship HMS Manchester

Matos did not enter a plea as she spoke via video link from Eastwood Park Prison in Gloucester to Plymouth Magistrates Court.

Reporting restrictions were lifted today at the beginning of a committal hearing.

The court heard Matos, who came to the UK five years ago, joined the Navy in 2007 and had an 'unblemished record'.

She had spent the last seven months at sea on the HMS Manchester, which stopped off in the Falklands, South Georgia and Rio de Janeiro, before cruising to Colombia's Caribbean coast for drug interdiction training.

The investigation has been handed to the Serious Organised Crime Agency, which arrested three civilians from the London area on Wednesday, August 12, in connection with the find.

A spokesman said: 'Following a search aboard HMS Manchester, a junior rating was discovered to be in possession of suspected quantity of Class A drugs.

'She was arrested by Royal Navy police on August 10 and handed over to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in Plymouth during a planned anchorage.

'The junior rating and the three men were charged with the importation of controlled drugs.'

'This is a quantity indicative of a large criminal enterprise involving many, many people.

'This is a large amount of drugs and, if found guilty, the defendant will face a very lengthy prison sentence.

'Taking into account HMS Manchester visited Colombia during its last voyage before entering Plymouth, it seems this is part of an international drug smuggling operation.

'Mobile phone records will need to be checked, e-mails will need to be trawled through, and the drugs also need to be tested for their purity before we know the true scale of this.'

The SOCA spokeswoman confirmed that three men appeared in court in Portsmouth last week and were remanded in custody.

A Royal Navy spokeswoman added: 'The Ministry of Defence will co-operate fully with any investigation that involves service personnel.

'The Royal Navy demands the highest standard of conduct from our personnel and anyone who falls short of that is dealt with robustly.'

Mato's Commanding Officer, Commander Paul Beattie, said: 'We return to the UK having made a significant contribution to the security of the Falkland Islands and the counter-narcotics effort in the Caribbean and Atlantic Oceans.

'Our periods in South America have served to develop familiarity, trust and co-operation with a number of pivotal, regional allies and have established the foundation for future engagement with the Columbian and Peruvian Navies.

'My ship's company return to the UK proud of a job well done and looking forward to a period of maintenance and recuperation.'

Mato will next appear at Plymouth Magistrates Court on September 15.

A job well done. Nelson must be turning in his grave.

An Email from Christine Nakaggwa

Back in June, I wrote a post about a demonstration of illegal immigrants pushing for regularised status, organised by a group called 'Strangers into Citizens'.

One of the stories I mentioned in my attempt to show that mass immigration from the Third World is a very bad idea was the case of Ugandan Dr Christine Nakaggwa, who was struck off after punching her one year old daughter in the face - in front of policemen who had just served her with deportation papers.

It seems Nakaggwa takes issue with my pointing out her violence:

I have read your malicious/ immigration plight story on your website and I was so ashamed that you of all organisations could use my sad story for your malicious aims. Shame on you all.

I hope my child grows up in your very country to haunt you. Your ancestors used and killed slaves for all the wealthy and paece you are talking about BUT where are they?

This country belongs to God and all the people that Dwell in it. My future is never going to be decided by white men in Home office but by God. Why Am I still in UK?
Dr.christine amanda nakaggwa

Yes, well unfortunately the third line seems almost a certainty, doesn't it? If not me then some other poor unfortunate.

Now, the first thing that strikes me about Christine is that she is a racist. Why?

Well, she seems to be implying that no white man is allowed to make a decision on her case, simply because she is black - and I'm afraid anyone who sees colour is simply beyond the pale.

Secondly, we have a standard crock of nonsense about slavery; I'm not Prince William, I very much doubt my ancestors were treated better than slaves themselves - and yet still, they managed to build a thriving, technologically advanced, modern society which was the envy of the world, one in which people like Nakaggwa still want to live and leech off of whilst condemning it.

Here is what she did to her one year old daughter:

Nakaggwa was told to calm down, but said "What if I do this?" and hit the child in the face with the back of her hand. She then hit the child again and a third time with a clenched fist. The child was taken to hospital with bruising to the eye, cheek and ear.

She sent me a second email, entitled 'official documents from Dr Nakaggwa' (surely that should read former doctor Nakaggwa?):

Mr. Earl Cromer,

This is the story that Iam referring to. To put my story among "illegal immigrants" just shows how ignorant of the law and english, you are!!! It has just discredited your activities further.

You sited the story of a man who came in uk behind a van, now that is illegal, But the a doctor who is registered with the General Medical council is very unlikely to have come in the back of a lorry let alone illegally.

This same doctor is a mother of a 2 year old did you even bother to find out who the father of the child was and if he too was illegal? Did you also assume the child came behind vans?

What is your aim in this organisation if not boredom and cheap popularity?

Iam a victim of the worst form of BRITISH INJUSTICE and anyone with half your brain could have read in between the lines of the newspaper story before incorporating it into your credible website.

THE WORLD HAS HEARD AND IS WATCHING WHAT UK WILL DO NEXT!!!!

To answer her question - why do I do this?

Well, I do it to warn that hundreds of thousands of people like her live in our country, and millions more wish to come.

Her violent crime against her own toddler aside, I'm very glad I never had to rely on a prescription written by her, if these emails are an accurate summary of her language skills.

However, if she keeps on like this, she'll be doing my job for me.

The West Must Continue to Apologise for its History

The following story beggars belief in its simpering tone and purely one-sided judgment:

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The descendants of an African chief who was hanged and decapitated by a Dutch general 171 years ago reluctantly accepted the return of his severed head Thursday, still angry even as the Dutch tried to right a historic wrong.

The head of King Badu Bonsu II was discovered last year in a jar of formaldehyde gathering dust in the anatomical collection of the Leiden University Medical Center. The Dutch government agreed to Ghanaian demands that the relic be returned.

On Thursday, members of the king's Ahanta tribe, dressed in dark robes and wearing red sashes, took part in the hand-over ceremony, honoring his spirit by toasting with Dutch gin and then sprinkling the drink over the floor at the Dutch Foreign Ministry.

But descendants of the chief said they were not consoled.

"I am hurt, angry. My grandfather has been killed," said Joseph Jones Amoah, the great, great grandson of the chief.

The chief's head was stored elsewhere at the ministry and was not displayed during the ceremony. It is expected to be flown with the tribe members back to Ghana on Friday.

Tribal elders said after the hand-over that they were also angry because they had been sent by their current chief only to identify the head, not retrieve it. Taking it back without first reporting to the chief would be a breach of protocol, they said.

"We, the Ahanta, are not happy at all," said Nana Etsin Kofi II.

The head was taken by Maj. Gen. Jan Verveer in 1838 in retaliation for Bonsu's killing of two Dutch emissaries, whose heads were displayed as trophies on Bonsu's throne, said Arthur Japin, a Dutch author who discovered the king's head when he was working on a historical novel.

The elders demanded the Dutch government provide aid to their tribe to appease the slain chief.

Nana Kwekwe Darko III, who tipped the gin on the floor in a Ghanaian tradition of respect for the dead, dabbed tears from his eyes afterward and said he wanted the Dutch to build schools and hospitals for his people.

Ministry spokesman Bart Rijs said that 10 who came from Ghana had agreed before the ceremony to take the head home. The official transfer was between the two countries' governments, he said.

Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen used the ceremony to apologize for Dutch involvement in the slave trade. Ghana, then known as Gold Coast, was a base for Dutch slave traders.

"We are also here because of our mutual desire to lay to rest episodes in ... history that were unfortunate and shameful," Verhagen said. "Our common past also includes the infamous slave trade, which our traders engaged in and sustained and which inflicted so much harm on so many people in so many parts of the world."

Ghana has lobbied for the head's return since it was discovered.

"Without burial of the head, the deceased will be hunted in the afterlife. He's incomplete," Eric Odoi-Anim, a Ghanaian diplomat in the Netherlands said after the discovery. "It's also a stigma on his clan, on his kinsmen, and him being a (high-ranking) chief — this is even more serious."

It was unclear what would become of it once it reaches Ghana.

Berima Asamoah Kofi IV, a traditional chief who now lives in the Netherlands, said the Ahanta chief would ultimately decide its fate.

"Whatever he says, we are going to do," he told The Associated Press.

A few points immediately spring to mind; we can overlook the parts about one of the chiefs now living (no doubt very well indeed) in the country of evil racists his people are so angry with, and the attempts to blackmail the Dutch for more aid; those things are pretty standard, unfortunately.

What struck me the most was how the reason the chief was beheaded was not mentioned until the writer had attempted to garner sympathy for the Ahanta; he beheaded two *missionaries, and displayed their heads on poles.

Presumably the missionaries were there to spread Christianity, and er, build schools and hospitals, as they did in so many parts of Africa and what is now the Third World?

But let's not let a little thing like objective reality get in the way of self-flagellation.

I'll bet whoever that Dutch General was, he'd rather be dead than see what has become of the country he served, simpering to backwards tribesmen and crying over history, whilst refusing to look at the where the true evil in the world lies at this very moment.

*The text actually says emissaries - my mistake. I suppose you could argue that makes it even worse; emissaries are simply there to make contact and convey messages between rulers, rather than spread their own ideas and culture.

British Gems Expert Killed by Kenyan Mob

From the BBC:

A leading Scottish gemstone expert has been killed in Kenya by a gang armed with clubs, spears, bows and arrows.

Campbell Bridges, 71, was attacked by 20 men in the grounds of his 600-acre property near the southern town of Voi.

He fought off the mob with his son Bruce and four Kenyan staff but died of his injuries on arrival at hospital.

Police are investigating the attack which is reportedly connected to a three-year dispute over access and control of Mr Bridges' gemstone mines.

Police said he was driving his pick-up truck in the grounds of his home within a national park when he was ambushed by about 20 men brandishing crude home-made weapons.

Witnesses said his injuries were caused by stab wounds from a knife. No-one else was injured in the attack on Tuesday.

Mr Bridges' body has since been flown to the capital Nairobi.

A close friend, the Rev John Ellison, 72, from Alton, Hampshire, told the BBC Scotland news website that the internationally-renowned gemmologist would have put up a strong fight.

"He was very fit, strong and confrontational but a lovely man nevertheless," he said.

"He would stand up to anyone. He would have gone in with his fists flying if someone attacked him."

He added that his "wonderful" friend had "a quick fuse if anyone was dishonest".

Mr Bridges was brought up in Scotland but had lived in the African country most of his life.

He is credited with discovering the green Tsavorite gem, a rare stone unique to the region, and also worked as a special consultant to the New York jewellers, Tiffany and Co.

Mr Ellison revealed that Mr Bridges had previously been threatened as he owned mining rights and therefore knew where the deposits were.

The Clintons Experience the True Meaning of Diversity

This story amused and disturbed me in equal measure:

What can 40 goats and 20 cows buy a Kenyan man? Chelsea Clinton's love, if you ask Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor.

The Kenyan man first offered the dowry nine years ago to then-President Bill Clinton in asking for the hand of his only child. He renewed it Thursday after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked about the proposal at a Nairobi town hall session.

CNN's Fareed Zakaria, the session's moderator, commented that given the economic crisis at hand, Chepkurgor's dowry was "not a bad offer."

However, Clinton said her daughter was her own person.

"She's very independent," she said. "So I will convey this very kind offer."

The audience laughed, but Clinton's comments were no joke to Chepkurgor, who described the younger Clinton as a "beautiful, disciplined and well-natured woman."

"Of course I have never met her, but I like her family and how they stick together," Chepkurgor told CNN. "I've waited for a long time. I'm still waiting to meet her and express my love for her."

Chepkurgor operates a small electronics and computer shop in Nakuru, a major city northwest of Nairobi. He may still be waiting for Chelsea, but he's not exactly single. He married his wife Grace, a college classmate, in 2006.

"My wife has no problem with this," he insisted. "She listened to the answers given by Hillary and did not complain."

Polygamy is legal in Kenya, so Chelsea would be Chepkurgor's second wife.

"Is that allowed in your side of the world?" he laughed.

In Kenya, a man proposes with dowry for the prospective bride, Chepkurgor explained. He said he stands by his initial livestock offer until someone makes a counteroffer.

Chepkurgor, now 39, first made his intentions known when all three Clintons visited East Africa in 2000. He wrote a letter to the former president, offering himself as his only child's suitor. He said he had not expected the secretary of state to address the issue during her visit to Kenya this week.

However, he admits his chances might be rather slim.

"Unfortunately, I don't have their contact information," he said.

I'm rather surprised Bill didn't take him up on the offer - after all, we know what a celebrant of diversity he is, and it's not like he needs the cash.

I know this story seems amusing in some ways, but there are two dark sides;

firstly, this man is serious. This is how women are seen and treated in large parts of the world (I had a friend who went on honeymoon to Egypt, and was made a serious offer of camels in exchange for his wife) - but oddly, the celebrated feminist Hillary Clinton seems to think that primitive cultural sensibilities are far more important than putting an individual like this in his place and striking a blow for true women's rights where they would count the most.

Secondly, the fact that this rather creepy man's disturbing view of the world is ruefully smiled at, with the indulgence one would usually reserve for a child - simply because he's from Africa.

Both should be food for thought for a couple of smug white liberals like the Clintons - but I shan't be holding my breath.

Illegal Immigrant Jailed for Brutal Attempted Rape in Chatham

A Namibian who was living in Britain illegally has been jailed for an attempted rape carried out near Chatham High Street on New Years' Eve. It was described by the judge as the worst such case he had ever seen.

From Kent Online:

A pervert who carried out a terrifying sex attack on a woman in the street has been jailed for nine-and-a-half years.

Natangwe Nekwaya was told by a judge it was the most horrifying case of attempted rape he had ever experienced.

Maidstone Crown Court heard the 25-year-old Namibian was in the country illegally and would be deported at the end of his sentence.

The victim told at an earlier trial how she was attacked in Chatham near the High Street in the early hours of New Year’s Day. It was captured on CCTV and shown to the jury.

She bravely put up a fight as Nekwaya punched and kicked her and tried to pull off her trousers after he exposed himself.

The woman, who cannot be identified, managed to poke him in the eyes. She pretended she was pregnant and that her waters had broken. She was only saved from further harm by the arrival of police.

Nekwaya, of St Stevens Close, All Saints Gardens, Chatham, denied attempted rape and two charges of assault.

He was convicted of the attempted rape and one assault charge and cleared of the other. He admitted assaulting the woman causing actual bodily harm.

Judge Andrew Patience QC told Nekwaya: "This is the most horrifying attempted rape I have been concerned with in my entire career."

If there was an appeal, he said, judges should see the CCTV film of the attack.

"You treated her worse than anyone can imagine," he continued. "She was only saved from rape by the arrival of police.

"I don’t know how much longer her strength could hold out. You subjected her to humiliation, degradation and cruelty."

Nekwaya was placed on the sex offenders' register for life.

Nigerian Illegal in £114,000 Benefit Fraud

From The Croydon Guardian:

A failed asylum seeker who fraudulently claimed more than £114,000 has been jailed.

Adesuwa Ojo-Osagie, also known as Queen Hanson, 42, of Parchmore Road, Thornton Heath was sentenced to eight months in prison at Croydon Crown Court on Friday.

She pleaded guilty to using a false identity to work illegally and to dishonestly claim benefits to which she was not entitled.

She used different identities to gain entry into the UK and claim benefits.

The fraud came to light following a data-matching exercise in 2006 by anti-fraud officers who discovered that Queen Hanson had been claiming housing and council tax benefit since 2003 but had failed to declare savings of more than £130,000 in 18 bank accounts.

Hanson also failed to declare that she was married, and that her husband, Ekhator Ojo-Osagie, was working full time for Royal Mail.

She is a failed asylum seeker, giving her no recourse to public funds or the right to work in the UK.

The UK Border Agency and the council found that she was also using a second identity, as Nigerian national Adesuwa Ojo-Osagie.

She had been trying to gain entry to the UK with two children as the dependant partner of Ekhator Ojo-Osagie, who was already in the UK on a skilled migrant workers’ permit.

Hanson and her husband were arrested in June and a search of their property found evidence that she had been using two identities and that she had made claims for housing, council tax benefit, income support, child tax credit, working tax credit and child benefit.

She had also been working with Sainsbury’s since 2003 despite having no right to work in the UK.

In total, Hanson received £114,941.67 in false benefit claims and fraudulent earnings.

Handing Hanson a custodial sentence, Judge Ruth Downing said it was an utterly cynical, sustained and relentless fraudulent act from day one based on complete avarice.

She said she was finding it hard to see signs of remorse and acceptance of guilt in the defendant.

Councillor Sara Bashford, cabinet member for resources and customer services, said: “We are delighted at the outcome of this long and complex investigation and are grateful to our partner agencies for helping us to put a stop to the fraudulent activities of this woman.

“We are determined to stamp out fraud, and I hope this case acts as a warning to others.”

I would suggest a ban on all migration from countries notorious for their fraudsters, but obviously my solution is not as effective as letting her live here, steal and spend well over £100,000, then jailing her at taxpayers' expense.

Must be a great warning to others - come to Britain and get more than someone on minimum wage could earn in eight years before you get caught.

Sheer Savagery in Arizona

An eight year old Liberian girl was lured into a shed by four boys in Arizona, with the promise of chewing gum.

The boys, aged between nine and fourteen and also refugees from Liberia, then held the girl down and took it in turn to sexually assault her.

As if this wasn't enough of an ordeal, the girl's family refused to take her back once they found out about the crime - because her actions had 'shamed them'.

The case has provoked widespread condemnation across America and even Liberia.

From The Telegraph:

Ordinary Americans have offered to adopt an eight-year-old Liberian girl who was raped by four boys in Arizona and then disowned by her family because she had "shamed" them.

The case has caused horror in both the United States and Liberia after it emerged that the girl's family did not want to care for her after she was attacked by the boys, also Liberian immigrants, who were aged between nine and 14.

Police officers responding to screams from an empty shed in an apartment complex in Phoenix last week found the partially-clothed girl and four boys running away.

The boys had lured the girl into the shed with the offer of chewing gum. They held her down and took turns raping her for about 10 to 15 minutes, according to Phoenix police.

The girl is now in the custody of Arizona Child Protective Services (CPS). Police said no charges will be filed against the parents.

"They didn't abandon the child," Phoenix police sergeant Andy Hill said. "They committed no crime. They just didn't support the child, which led to CPS coming over there."

"This is a deeply disturbing case that has gripped our community," said Maricopa County attorney Andrew Thomas. "Our office will seek justice for the young victim in this heartrending situation."

The case also drew condemnation from Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the president of Liberia and an outspoken campaigner against rape.

"I think that family is wrong. They should help that child who has been traumatised," she told CNN.

"They, too, need serious counselling because clearly they are doing something, something that is no longer acceptable in our society here," she added.

The oldest boy, a 14 year-old, will be tried as an adult on charges of kidnapping and sexual assault.

The other three boys - aged 9, 10, and 13 - were charged as juveniles with sexual assault and kidnapping.

"We've had young people who have been victims of sexual assault, but the thing that distinguishes this is the age of the victim, the age of the suspects and the response of the parents," Mr Hill said.

Well-wishers from California to Maine have called, wanting to adopt the child or give money for her welfare, Mr Hill said.

"It's been unbelievably fantastic in terms of support for the child," he said. "People from eight or nine states have called."

This story teaches us much about the importation of completely alien cultural values.

If these people don't understand basic human emotions such as supporting their own child after she is the victim of a despicable crime, then in what sense were they ever fit to be resettled in a civilised country?

If they don't even owe decency to their own flesh and blood, then what could they possibly give to the society which took them in?

This case is disturbing in many different ways, but it is primarily a glimpse of just what we have invited into our midst.