John Paul Onyenaychi Charged with Attempting to Kill 2 Police Officers

On Wednesday afternoon, a group of police officers and PCSOs were taking part in a routine activity in Ealing, west London.

As they were checking the tickets of passengers alighting from a bendy bus, they apparently stumbled across John Paul Onyenaychi, who was wanted for recall to prison. He'd been convicted for causing death by dangerous driving, and had breached his parole conditions after being released early.

Although he was initially stopped so the police officers could check that he'd paid his fare (which, of course, he had not), one of the officers recognised him and initiated a radio check, which confirmed that Onyenaychi was a wanted man.

He decided that he didn't want to return to prison, however, and pulled out a stanley knife:

Christmas shoppers screamed in horror as the knifeman slashed the throat of one officer before attacking a police community support officer – plunging a knife into his arms and hands as he went to the aid of his colleague.

He attempted to stab a second community support officer before he was subdued.

The constable who had his throat slashed is apparently stable after surgery, but his life was only saved because a surgeon was travelling on a passing bus and managed to keep him alive until he got to hospital.

Today Onyenaychi has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, and attempting to commit grievous bodily harm against the second PCSO.

What interested me most was the reaction of Boris Johnson, Mayor of London:

Mayor of London Boris Johnson said he was shocked by what had happened, adding: ‘There is no place for this in London.’

But unfortunately there is, isn't there Boris?

The reason such large groups of police officers were active like this in the first place is because the area has seen a surge in gang activity; gangs robbing people on buses, in the streets, using casual violence.

Casual violence against members of the public will eventually translate into casual violence against the police - particularly if the consequences are seen as negligible.

This Onyenaychi individual has already got away with killing one person, so why would he think twice about killing more?

Anyone capable of doing something like this belongs behind bars, preferrably for good. How many other such people are still roaming the streets? The Daily Mail article gives us some clue:

Ministry of Justice figures show 914 criminals are on the run even though they have committed new crimes or breached the terms of their release. The total includes 22 recalled between 1984 and 1999. Those wrongly on the streets include 18 murderers, five paedophiles and 17 convicted of carrying guns.

Police should find 75 per cent of recalled prisoners classified as high risk ‘emergency’ cases within 74 hours and three quarters of standard recalls should be completed within six days.

But since 2007 nearly 10,000 criminals were not back in jail within the target time.

If the authorities don't take sanctions against criminals seriously, why should the criminals?

***UPDATE 14:57***

Onyenaychi continued to show his contempt for the justice system whilst in court:

A man charged with attempting to murder two police officers has been remanded in custody after swearing at the judge.

District Judge Margot Coleman ordered John Paul Onyenaychi, 30, of Wise Road in east London, back to the cells after his outburst.

The injured officers have been named as PC Paul Madden, 23, and PCSO Piotr Dolata, 27.

***UPDATE 21:06***

The Daily Mail has more on what Onyenaychi got up to in court today. Whilst in the dock, surrounded by ten police officers, he treated the court to the following:

Shouting at District Judge Margot Coleman when asked for his full name, he said: 'My name’s ‘go **** yourself’ and where the **** is my solicitor?'

When his solicitor Aneurin Brewer appeared in court, he continued: 'You’re not my ******* solicitor. You’re not representing me.'

The hearing continued in Onyenaychi's absence after District Judge Coleman ordered he be taken back to the cell, before telling Mr Brewer, 'He was being extremely abusive and I’m not prepared to tolerate that behaviour in my courtroom.'

Whilst I fully agree with her decision, she's rather lucky she gets a choice in the matter, unlike some.

Some people have to deal with the likes of Onyenaychi daily due to the consistent refusal of the courts to actually attempt to punish criminals.

Boris Johnson's Solution to the Economic Crisis

When Boris Johnson was campaigning to become Mayor of London against incumbent 'Red' Ken Livingstone, he was treated very shabbily by the media.

Many people were thus given the idea that Johnson was somehow 'Right-wing', or at the very least he might be against mass immigration, multiculturalism and London's publicly funded racial spoils system - all entrenched orthodoxies which have been spreading and crippling parts of the city for decades.

This impression was wholly false, however - Johnson is so far to the Left on some of these issues that even David 'Tory Blair' Cameron finds it all a bit embarrassing.

I have written previously about Johnson's support for an amnesty which would see all long term illegal immigrants given the chance to become British citizens - despite the fact there are between 500,000 and 1 million of them.

Well, Johnson is at it again - he thinks the best economic strategy for London is to attract more foreign students and then make it easier for them to stay in Britain once they have finished their studies. This pits him against Tory policy, which calls for an annual limit on migration.

Although foreign students do pay higher fees, I would think that the source is more important than the numbers. The last thing London needs is a scheme which attracts yet more Third World migrants under a different guise.

London already successfully competes for graduates and professionals from all over the Western world - these people will be far more conducive to future success than immigrant groups who statistically are a net drain.

There is also the issue of the thousands of British graduates who are churned out into debt, unemployment or menial jobs, plus recent reports which have shown the economic benefits of mass immigration to be nil or at the very least negligible.

Boris Johnson Allows St. George's Day

Mayor of London Boris Johnson confirmed yesterday that St. George's Day, the day of England's patron saint, will not be ignored as normal, at least not in London.

He plans a week long 'Festival of Englishness', and will even take the unprecedented step of flying the English flag, the Cross of St. George, from City Hall. He has also asked that the city be bedecked with the red and white flag for the whole week.

Johnson, pictured above with an English flag, has been quite clear that he doesn't care if the celebration is not politically correct, and thinks the idea of it offending immigrants is ridiculous. He says the week long celebration should be about celebrating England, the English and their historic achievements.

There will be a reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets at the Globe Theatre to mark the 400 year anniversary of their publication, real-ale tastings, and an English folk music concert in Trafalgar Square amongst other events. Johnson will also take a ceremonial tour of the capital in a London bus.

I'm not sure if this is actually good news, however; I feel it is a cynical attempt to deflect rising criticism of the three main parties for despising our country and culture.

I used to be a supporter of Boris, and certainly saw him as an excellent alternative to Ken Livingstone. After his support of an amnesty for illegal immigrants, however, I see him somewhat differently - a charlatan who tricked his way into office by pretending to be a conservative, like so many before him.

Still, at least he's trying to do his job this time; the Mayor should not despise England and its history like Ken Livingstone did.

Livingstone is responsible for many atrocities; getting rid of Routemaster buses, racially abusing a Jewish reporter, inviting controversial Muslim clerics to speak in London, praising the Chinese for their human rights record.

The one that will always stick in my mind, however, was his 2001 attempt to banish the statues of General Sir Charles James Napier and Major-General Sir Henry Havelock from Trafalgar Square.

Both these men were colonial-era soldiers, mainly associated with British military campaigns in India; the former is most famous for capturing Sindh province, the latter for re-capturing Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny in 1857.

Livingstone claimed he wanted rid of them because he 'did not know who they were or what they had done'.

I think he did know, though, and that was the problem. They are a symbol of one of the greatest nations, civilisations and empires the world has ever known, and that is why he hated them.

He did not get his way, however, and they remain in Trafalgar Square. One of the pleasures of this St. George's Day celebration will be knowing just how much it is irritating Livingstone, and just how much he regrets losing the election to Johnson.

An Amnesty on Stupidity

Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, supports the idea of an amnesty for illegal immigrants, it emerged earlier this week.

An odd stance, because it conflicts with the (alleged) wishes of both the government and his own Conservative Party.

The thing about this which is most annoying is thus; during the mayoral elections, Johnson stood as the genuinely conservative candidate.

I realise that running against 'Red' Ken Livingstone would make Tony Benn look Right-wing, but the abuse heaped on Johnson was second only to that reserved for the BNP. There was nothing so below-the-belt that Johnson could not be smeared with it; he was a racist, despite his wife being half-Indian, he was a clueless, brain dead boob despite being able to speak classical Greek, he was going to get all the BNP's second choice votes - you get the idea.

There must have been many Londoners who toyed with the idea of voting BNP but did not, opting for Johnson instead because he seemed a sensible mainstream choice; my own grandparents were amongst them.

Now, in my opinion, he has betrayed the people from all walks of life who voted for him, hoping to get their city back, for common sense to creep back into public life.

Johnson justifies his belief by saying it would be 'morally right'. What is morally right is looking after the people who elected you and their interests first.

The London School of Economics estimates there are 725,000 illegal (or, as they call them, 'irregular') immigrants and their dependants in Britain, with nearly two-thirds of them living in London. This has gone up from 430,000 in 2001.

Under the proposed 'five year minimum residence qualification', nearly 450,000 of these people could be naturalised.

"It's morally right that they should contribute in their taxes to the rest of society, as a regularisation of their status would allow," says Johnson.

He adds:

"This report has identified a huge failure of government immigration policy, a catastrophic failure to control our borders."

We agree on something, then. But is the solution really to just sweep it under the carpet?

A report published earlier this year said that 1 in 9 British residents were born abroad. A total of 720,000 foreigners were issued with National Insurance numbers last year; so this amnesty would take that total to nearly 1.3 million. This is in addition to 25,670 asylum applications in 2008, and 23,430 in 2007.

At the same time, the government predicts that the number of unemployed might hit over 3 million.

This is a very poorly thought out policy, and I think Johnson should seriously consider resigning over these remarks. Large parts of London are already unrecognisable as being in England. There are at least two schools which are almost 100% Somali, several which are 100% non-white and many where 80% of the pupils speak no English.

An amnesty might solve his headaches today, but what about when word gets back? The softer we are, the more people will come. We don't have the room for them, we don't really have the money and we certainly don't have the jobs.

What about schemes like family reunification? If illegal immigration soared by 295,000 in six years, how much will it go up when most of them are certain they can stay? Does anyone think these aspects through?

However, it's clear the government are not sincere about securing our borders. Just a few weeks ago, a family from the Congo won £150,000 from the UK Border Agency for 'unlawful detention'. They were failed asylum applicants, ordered to leave the country, but because they have children it is apparently frowned upon to put them in a detention centre.

Seeing as the Home Office detains around 2,000 child refugees a year, this could cause problems.

These problems stem from them being allowed to arrive in the first place; the first defence against illegal immigrants is at the borders. If Geert Wilders can be put straight on a plane, so can anyone.

But no. In modern Britain, it's better to deliberately create a problem, then come up with a disingenuous solution that actually solves nothing whilst furthering some unspecified goal out of sight of the public.

Boris pretends he cares about illegal immigrants having to pay tax; I'd wager he cares far more about living in a magical rainbow city which only exists in his own head, like pretty much all mainstream politicians.

A Semi-detached Home Secretary: Weekly News Round Up, 8th-14th February 2009

The week that shamed Britain. However, the Geert Wilders debacle was far from the only thing in the news. Here is an overview of some of the more interesting stories from this week's UK newspapers.


1) 'Smith faces official probe over expenses scandal'

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is currently embroiled in a different kind of 'home security' issue; that is fraudulently securing funding for her second home allowance. Apparently she has been staying in her sister's spare room in London during the week (despite turning down a free grace-and-favour apartment which comes with her office), and claiming a second home allowance. That means she's walking away with a tax-free sum of at least £24,000 per year, which is about the average national income.

Nice to know one with such honesty and scruples is in charge of the criminal justice system.


2) 'Prescott launches online campaign against bank bonuses'

Former Deputy Prime Minister John 'Moneybags' Prescott has taken it upon himself to fight bank bosses who have been awarded large bonuses, despite the government ploughing millions of pounds of taxpayers money into propping up said banks after some spectacular failures.

In principle I agree with him, but I think a slightly more palatable crusader could have been found; this is man who was once nicknamed 'two Jags', and unlike anyone who writes at the Daily Mirror I do not think his authentic northern accent makes him some ambassador for the poor. However, I have one suggestion for his movement; maybe failed politicians could also be stripped of all financial perks and bonuses.

If you define 'fail' in the same way as the Oxford English Dictionary and me, then an awful lot of money will be saved.


3) 'Harry to be sent on a diversity training course'

Prince Harry is to be sent on something called a 'diversity course' after yet another controversy over racism in the Royal Family. Apparently, Harry told black comedian Stephen K. Amos 'he didn't sound like a black chap' after a performance at Prince Charles' 60th birthday celebrations.

Oh dear. This comedian was so bothered he took almost 3 months to say something, duly went to the newspapers at an opportune moment, then after several days of screaming headlines and controversy piped up again to say 'it was no big deal' and 'Harry's no racist'.

Well, someone has certainly got a first class publicist, that much is certain.


4) 'Geert Out: Far-right Dutch MP banned from Britain'

Dutch MP Geert Wilders made a splash in most newspapers this week after being banned from Britain. One person against the ban was Islamic cleric Anjem Chaudary, who said he would have welcomed an opportunity to engage Mr Wilders 'in an open debate about whether Islam offers a better solution than Capitalism.'

He didn't specify whether this was to be a 'Mohammed Bouyeri Vs. Theo van Gogh' style debate, however, one where success is measured by the number of stab wounds your opponent receives rather than the traditional 'rational argument' method.

I'm also not quite sure in just what field 'Islam' is supposed to be a better way forward than Capitalism. I would assume he's talking about economics and governance in general, but I must admit a glance at any particular Muslim country does not inspire me in either of those fields, or indeed any other. Certainly not when oil money is taken out of the equation.

But still, it's official. Anjem Chaudary is technically more open minded than the Home Secretary.
That or he just wanted an excuse to watch our city centres burn, not that one is usually required.


5) Kent Police, my local force, decided to celebrate 'LGBT History Month' by sending out poetry packs to school children urging them to 'think about how it feels to be gay' and 'what being gay might mean to them in the future'.

Isn't taxpayers' cash a beautiful thing? It can be put to almost any purpose, except of course that for which it was designated.

Personally I prefer to think about 'why crime is soaring yet the police are wasting time on such pointless trivialities' and 'Kent Police: is this nonsense really their job?'


6) This week it also emerged that a 13 year old boy has fathered a child with his 15 year old girlfriend.

I'm fairly certain anything I could possibly add after that sentence would be superfluous, and whilst that doesn't normally stop me, the situation simply leaves me at a loss for words.

However, it has now been revealed that this 15 year old girl has slept with so many males that the baby's paternity is in doubt, and the father of the 13 year old may have played up claims his son is the father for money.

Just makes you proud to be British, doesn't it?


7) Government professor Tony Nutt recommended that the illegal party drug ecstasy be downgraded from a Class A drug to Class B. To demonstrate his case, the eminent professor compared taking ecstasy to horse riding, because apparently they're responsible for a similar number of deaths each year. For most people that would be where the comparison ends, but not the aptly named Professor Nutt; to him, the activities are so similar in terms of risk, worth and moral standing, he coined the term 'equasy', a term allegedly supposed to be a playful word association.

Unfortunately for him, it just made him sound like a complete idiot, and pretty much discredited anything else he said beforehand. For which I thank him - it makes my job so much easier.


8) London Mayor Boris Johnson was caught going on a 'foul-mouthed tirade' at MP and professional passport salesman Keith Vaz. Good - it's about time someone did.

I'm sure if I had to deal with such people on a daily basis I too would snap. However, the circumstances do not damn Mr Johnson as the headlines would like; Vaz is the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee and is trying to justify the arrest late last year of opposition MP Damien Green.