Nine year old stabbed in Dorset

[Saleen836]

Sadly another young child stabbed, this time on the South Coast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mnl93ll88o

[Terminator X]

Anyone carrying a knife not work related should be jailed imho. Not enough room then build some more FFS.

TX.

[119]

Utterly appalling.

BCP, as posted before, has turned into a st-hole.

[Cupramax]

Combining the three towns, which had always had quite separate identities, has just turned the area into one large characterless conurbation with all the problems that go with it. I’ve lived in the area the majority of my life and Bournemouth used to be great on Friday and Saturday nights in the 80’s and 90’s, you couldn’t pay me enough to go down there at night now.

[Cupramax]

Stabbing in Parkstone last night FFS. I despair what’s going on in the area. 15yr old arrested for attempted murder.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24537154.bo...

[ecsrobin]

Cupramax said:

Combining the three towns, which had always had quite separate identities, has just turned the area into one large characterless conurbation with all the problems that go with it. I’ve lived in the area the majority of my life and Bournemouth used to be great on Friday and Saturday nights in the 80’s and 90’s, you couldn’t pay me enough to go down there at night now.

I’m not far away but used to visit a lot. Went to Poole back in May and thought we’d pop in to Bournemouth for some lunch on the way home as haven’t been for about 3 years. We got out the car spent about 10 minutes going what’s happened and jumped in the car and went to Burley.

It’s always been a seaside town with the associated issues but there seems to have been a rapid decline in the few years we haven’t visited and that’s during the day!

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Cupramax said:

Combining the three towns, which had always had quite separate identities, has just turned the area into one large characterless conurbation with all the problems that go with it. I’ve lived in the area the majority of my life and Bournemouth used to be great on Friday and Saturday nights in the 80’s and 90’s, you couldn’t pay me enough to go down there at night now.

Sounds like you have the same experience as me. Over the last 20 years it feels like Boscombe has gradually expanded to cover the entire BCP area.

[Cupramax]

There’s always been rough areas, be it Turlin Moor in Poole, East Howe and Townsend in Bournemouth and Somerford in Christchurch and of course Boscombe. But like everywhere knife crime with youngsters seems to be going mad across the entire place in areas you wouldn’t expect to see anything like this even once or twice a year is almost happening daily. That’s before we even get into what goes on over busy holiday weekends with imported crime on the beach front. Plus we have the usual migrant hotel entertainment in Bournemouth.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24534884.au...

[scenario8]

I quite like Christchurch. In or out of season. Quite a lot really.

Obviously the subject of this thread is all very sad/concerning/disappointing. Anyone any wiser as to what on Earth are the specifics in this case?

[Yertis]

Cupramax said:

There’s always been rough areas, be it Turlin Moor in Poole, East Howe and Townsend in Bournemouth and Somerford in Christchurch and of course Boscombe. But like everywhere knife crime with youngsters seems to be going mad across the entire place in areas you wouldn’t expect to see anything like this even once or twice a year is almost happening daily. That’s before we even get into what goes on over busy holiday weekends with imported crime on the beach front. Plus we have the usual migrant hotel entertainment in Bournemouth.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24534884.au...

When I was young Boscombe was still considered the posh bit. Even in the early ‘80s it was OK. I was there the other day for a gig at the Academy and it’s like a dystopian nightmare. Upper Parkstone’s gone the same way.

Difficult to say when and why it all went wrong. Personally it seems to me that the decline goes hand in hand with pedestrianisation, but thats likely contributary than causal. And the death of shops.

Do girls still sunbathe topless at Bournemouth? I doubt it.

Whole place is a sthole now.

[Digga]

I mentioned elsewhere on PH that wife and I stayed with friends near Torquay last month. They have 3 kids mid teens to adult age and at dinner on the Saturday evening in Paignton, they were saying how, even though it’s a nice little town, drugs and knife carrying are rife.

Locally, in the small town where I grew up in Midlands, it is the same.

I agree that the key to combating this is to de-normalise knife carrying. However, there are laws in place already but we do not have sufficient numbers of police.

Given the huge drain on police resources of events like football matches, should they pay more for the cover they draw?

[fourstardan]

I think the issue is where spending of time/money is going e.g. the 2nd story behind the Parkstone one on the local rag;

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24538456.do...

Also socially I am noticing the BCP area has a large population of slobs that have public spend going on them, whether that be slobs parking in disabled bays when they have no physical need for a badge, on mobility scooters smoking and drinking in populated spaces, I could go on.

Also, when you go out the council is too concerned with funding parking attendants to work stupid hours of the day and year.

Yet the council will waste excessive money on an Airshow next weekend that brings more money to private burger vans than the council itself as it makes a loss.

[Yertis]

It’s the last airshow the council is running.

Re your Echo article, I want to know what happened to Holes Bay doughnut man…

[m3jappa]

Knife carrying seems to have become a normalised thing over the last 15 or so years. Whys that?

It could be stopped. Anything can be stopped, look at the gang violence in (iirc) sao paolo which saw anyone even vaguely gang related swept off the streets and banged up. Meant to be one of the safest countries in the world now.

But of course that will never ever happen here, people make excuses for it. Mental health, gang culture etc. Theres always a reason why they did it and who 'let them down' and how 'mistakes like this shouldn't happen'

[jan8p]

m3jappa said:

Knife carrying seems to have become a normalised thing over the last 15 or so years. Whys that?

It could be stopped. Anything can be stopped, look at the gang violence in (iirc) sao paolo which saw anyone even vaguely gang related swept off the streets and banged up. Meant to be one of the safest countries in the world now.

But of course that will never ever happen here, people make excuses for it. Mental health, gang culture etc. Theres always a reason why they did it and who 'let them down' and how 'mistakes like this shouldn't happen'

Brazil, one of the safest countries? Really?

[m3jappa]

jan8p said:

Brazil, one of the safest countries? Really?

It was el salvador. Allegedly a very safe place now.

Either way what im getting at is it is possible to.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-647...

[South tdf]

My other half has worked in a few of the South coast hospitals and she says Bournemouth sees a lot more assault related injuries from glassing, stabbing, general fighting etc than Southampton or Portsmouth. Sadly assaults and drug related admissions are ever increasing and taking up so much valuable space.

[4.7AMV8]

I live in Verwood and used to live in West Moors. I go as far as Castlepoint and thats it. Honestly, apart from getting train other month to London I have not been to Bournemouth center for years. As people said, 80's 90's it was great. Academy in Boscombe etc but now its a dump.

[steveo3002]

m3jappa said:

Knife carrying seems to have become a normalised thing over the last 15 or so years. Whys that?

cus theres no one to stop em , yet police always have resources to decorate for the local pride or other parades

[Yertis]

A good friend of mine used to be head doorman at FYEO (and before that Zoo, I think it was at that time). Anyway, he left because the nature of the trouble changed, from just drunks being tits to serious violence, and because he was fed up with “doing the Police’s job for them”.

It’s a perfect storm of culture clash, drugs, collapse of shopping, lack of Police, Police not having any authority anyway, pedestrianisation (my hobby horse) stupid road restrictions, too many students, buy to lets in connection with students. Collapse of Beales, and Bealesons, the closure of the ice rink…

Made myself depressed now