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The crime that didn't happen
A SERIOUS assault just 100 yards from where Mahir Osman was
stabbed and killed on Saturday night, is not being investigated
by police, despite being clearly captured from start to end
on CCTV.
Five youths kicked and punched a man in the head and stomach
as he lay in the road in Camden High Street at the junction
with Hawley Crescent at midnight last Friday.
The attack – witnessed by a New Journal reporter in the
Town Hall’s CCTV control room – left the victim with
a bloody gash to the back of his head.
A CCTV operator who followed the events said: “Police should
really be there by now” but no police attended, even though
the camera operators followed both groups of youths involved
for 15 minutes while they picked up bricks from a building site
to use as weapons.
Nor was the crime recorded. Chief Inspector Guy McGinn said:
“The crime was not reported and no complaint has been made:
without corroboration from the victim we cannot investigate.
A Town Hall press official, also in the CCTV control room during
the assault, confirmed: “Yes, I saw it; it was serious.”
But the Town Hall has refused to release stills from the assault,
she said, because: “Police are not investigating and releasing
the image would only increase the fear of crime.”
Under questioning from the New Journal, Chief Insp McGinn eventually
said: “I can tell you the crime will now be recorded, but
it will not be investigated.” |
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