PETER HITCHENS: The police gave up the fight against drugs years ago, and this is the result

Daily Mail | 22nd March 2023

The ceaselessly updated website ‘Attacker Smoked Cannabis’ records scores of hideous violent crimes in which allegedly peaceful marijuana has been a feature.

But – in a country far too used to such crime – such events are these days only reported locally.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12108887/PETER-HITCHENS-police-gave-fight-against-drugs-years-ago-result.html

Shocking moment cannabis-smoking child killer, 17, butchers boy, 14, with machete outside chicken shop then flees in ‘senseless’ murder committed while thug was on bail for carrying large knife – as he is jailed for life

Daily Mail | 9th May 2023

In a ‘ferocious’ attack, Marques Walker, 17, stabbed Jermaine Cools, 14, seven times as he lay defenceless on the ground outside a chicken shop in Croydon, London, on November 18, 2021.

Walker pleaded guilty to Jermaine’s murder and possessing a knife earlier this year, and was jailed for life with a minimum of 19 years this afternoon…

The court also heard that Walker was under the influence of cannabis, which the Judge noted he was ‘dependent’ [sic]. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12064025/Child-killer-17-stabbed-boy-14-death-outside-chicken-shop-sentenced-TV-today.html

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