and I was attacked *again*

[Kaylee]

So the police investigated, arrested the kid, he said he didn't do it and somebody else did it.

Now this happened in a public area (50+ people around), in theory blanketed by CCTV. Guess what? The CCTV doesn't cover that particular area, and the ONLY witness they got a statement from was a tourist who's now gone home to Spain.

So it comes down to 'Mr Lynch- do you have eyes in the back of your head, since the kid claims that somebody else smacked you in the back and then punched you in the lip?'

Strangely enough I don't. They asked me to attend an ID parade. Sadly the kid didn't turn up for his video (that's how they do it now) so they used his arrest photo mixed in with a bunch of others. Imagine a photo the size of my avatar here blown up on a large TV. Now considering I had only a glance after turning round before being hit and then (naturally) turning away and considering this happened THREE months ago, I didn't have a f****** prayer.

So, as far as I understand it, despite this happening in the most public place possible and being about as open and shut as one could hope... nothing will be done. After it having consumed three month's worth of police work and my time in giving statements, attending parades, going to the station etc.

See I can sympathise with the police investigating it, they've worked hard, but there is something fundamentally wrong where you can be publicly assaulted in front of a crowd at a bus station blanketted by CCTV and nothing can be done to the little psycho in question because of a lack of evidence.

I'd like to know what went wrong here but I just can't put my finger on it

I'm very concerned. The police told me the child and his brood are well-known trouble makers. They had no compunction about what they did to me (which was as much humiliating as anything else). They're going to try this again, sooner or later. I just hope it's not me.

[Predabot]

Well, sounds like you had a bit of bad luck here, mate.

I'm surprised to hear that there are in fact no Soviet Republic Security Cameras oogling that perticular patch, since I've heard that London is one of the most watchmen-ed city's known to man.

Means there may still be a few, few places where you can have some privacy in that town, I suppose...

[Metal Vendetta]

Ah man, this just reminds me of getting my car window smashed in a couple of months back.

Police Officer: Well, you know we now have a CCTV camera on the road, right?
Me: No, where is it?
PO: It's on the Brecknock Road junction and it points into Hilldrop Crescent.
Me: But that's brilliant! My car was parked directly opposite that junction, right in the CCTV camera's field of vision! Can you get the tapes for Friday night?
PO: Eh, actually there aren't any tapes. Or a camera. There wasn't enough funding for that. But there is a metal box that a camera could go in, if we do get a camera at any point.
Me: ...

[Brendocon]

Spectacular.

[Kaylee]

Ah man, this just reminds me of getting my car window smashed in a couple of months back.

Police Officer: Well, you know we now have a CCTV camera on the road, right?
Me: No, where is it?
PO: It's on the Brecknock Road junction and it points into Hilldrop Crescent.
Me: But that's brilliant! My car was parked directly opposite that junction, right in the CCTV camera's field of vision! Can you get the tapes for Friday night?
PO: Eh, actually there aren't any tapes. Or a camera. There wasn't enough funding for that. But there is a metal box that a camera could go in, if we do get a camera at any point.
Me: ...

that's insane

[Cathy_Quinn]

And the PC left us a message saying they questioned the other kid implicated but he doesn't match Karl's description so they're just gonna file a crime report and wash their hands of it

[Dreadwind's Ghost]

I'm very concerned. The police told me the child and his brood are well-known trouble makers. They had no compunction about what they did to me (which was as much humiliating as anything else). They're going to try this again, sooner or later. I just hope it's not me.

Kill them. [/Armstrong & Miller]

[Metal Vendetta]

After I posted that last bit, I was interrupted by a knock at the door. It was the local fuzz, responding to a call I'd made a few days earlier about some petty vandalism in my garden. They said yeah, we know who they are, you know who they are, but there's nothing we can do about it.

Gotta love the police.