A 17-Year-Old Boy Has Been Charged With The Murder Of Elianne Andam, Who Was Killed On Her Way To School In Croydon

A 17-year-old boy appeared in court charged with the murder of 15-year-old Elianne Andam, who was stabbed to death on her way to school in south London.

The boy, who’s also been charged with having a knife, appeared before Croydon Magistrates’ Court and was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on October 3.

Elianne Andam was wounded in the neck after getting off a bus in Wellesley Road, Croydon, at about 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday.

The 17-year-old suspect was arrested in New Addington just over an hour later.

Elianne’s family visited the scene where she died as crowds assembled outside the police cordon and prayers were said.

She’s been described by her family as the ‘light of their lives’. They said she was ‘bright and funny’ and ‘had her whole life ahead of her’.

Elianne’s heartbroken mother broke down in tears as she laid flowers at the place where her daughter died.

Dorcas Andam was comforted by her husband Michael and dozens of relatives as they paid their respects to aspiring lawyer Elianne, 15.

It’s claimed the keen gymnast and cheerleader died as she stepped in to defend her friend who was attacked as she got off a bus in Croydon, south London, at 8.30 am on Wednesday.

Elianne was on her way to lessons at Old Palace of John Whitgift private school when she was killed, leaving her loved ones devastated.

Thirty relatives held a vigil at the city bus centre bus stop where she died, laying flowers as they comforted one another.

Bishop of Croydon, Rosemarie Mallet, read a powerful family statement alongside Elianne’s aunt Marian.

‘We, as a family are struggling to comprehend this painful tragedy that has happened to our beautiful daughter and beloved sister Elianne,’ she said. ‘Our hearts are broken. We are overwhelmed by sorrow and grief but our faith in the Lord is strengthening us.’

The statement described Elianne as ‘a beautiful person inside and out’ who was ‘intelligent, thoughtful, kind and had a bright future ahead of her’.

Hours before they’d told how their ‘lives had fallen apart’ while Elianne’s dreams of becoming a lawyer ‘had been shattered’.

The GCSE student’s senseless stabbing has shaken the nation with Rishi Sunak saying he was appalled.

Elianne had a six-year-old brother who she helped look after. Family friend Adama Dumbuya, 30, said that she couldn’t imagine what he was going to be like. That Elianne had a little brother and she knew they were close. She always looked after him and he was going to be heartbroken.

This boy should be named. He had a knife on him and he planned to do harm that day, and now Elianne paid the price, this is so sad and he needs to be put in prison for an extremely long time.

Council Cuts Threaten Bin Collections And Libraries To Plug £3.5 Billion Hole

Waste collections, libraries and leisure centres all face being hit as local authorities struggle to make ends meet.

A report warns that cash-strapped councils are grappling with a £3.5 billion funding black hole for next year, risking cuts to jobs and essential services as town halls struggle to balance the books.

Research by Unison found almost a third of local authorities are at least £10 million short of the money they need, while 4 per cent have a funding gap of about £40 million.

The union warned that town halls will be forced to consider selling land and buildings, slashing services for the vulnerable, and vital community resources such as waste collection, libraries and leisure centres.

Birmingham City Council and Thurrock Council, which have both effectively declared themselves bankrupt, have the worst funding gaps based on data from 369 (out of 371) local councils across Britain for 2024/25.

It comes after almost a third of councils in impoverished areas said they were considering issuing Section 114 notices, which would freeze all non-essential spending, according to the Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities.

Birmingham is £164 million short of its spending needs for next year, while Thurrock, in Essex, has a gap of £157 million, data acquired through freedom of information requests reveal.

Sheffield City Council and Bradford City Council both face funding gaps of about £72 million, while Liverpool City Council is short by more than £67 million.

Of the 371 councils, only 62 (16.7 per cent) reported no funding gap for 2024/25.

Uninson warned that the situation is expected to deteriorate further without a major cash injection in the Autumn Statement.

It estimates the overall funding gap could increase to £7 billion in 2025/26 without intervention.

Unison General Secretary Christina McAnea said that communities rely on their local authorities for all manner of essential services, such as waste collection, road repairs and parks and other open spaces, but that councils were on their knees. Ministers seem to care very little about public services and local government has been hit hard over the many years.

She said that essential services can’t run on thin air. Staff levels had already been cut to the bone in desperate attempts to balance the books. Yet more service cuts and job losses are sadly inevitable across the country unless the government intervenes with the lifeline of significant extra funding.

Libraries have been at risk for a long time anyway. How often do you see someone reading a book and if they do then it’s usually the older, pre-smart phone generation.

The problem is that councils have overspent our money on vanity projects, rather than the basic needs of the public. What have the council done with the money that we pay every month for Council Tax? Well, they spent it, that’s what they did! It’s like me giving away my income but I still need to pay bills, somehow.

It won’t be long before our streets look like the back alleys of Mumbai, and why are our roads being altered for no reason, taking months on end and people sitting around in vans all day with their feet up on the dash having an extended coffee break, no wonder councils are bankrupt.

It would be more cost-effective to get rid of some of the council’s top-tier managers who get a significant salary for not doing very much.

How vital are these people to the running of a borough, are they really that necessary? And the Government making substantial cuts to councils, stopping vital services isn’t going to help either side.

Councils employed their own refuse workers, they had their own refuse carts, and it worked extraordinarily well. They should go back to that instead of hiring our private contractors to do the job.

We the people have to suffer, yet councillors still get pay raises, bonuses, cars, and any other type of freebies that they can get their grubby hands on – this has to stop, now!

Moment Olympic Sprinter Ricardo Dos Santos Pleads ‘What Did I Do?’ 

This is the moment Olympic sprinter Ricardo Dos Santos pleads ‘What did I do?’ as police officers swarm him and scream ‘Get out of the car’ in front of his baby son.

One can be seen raising his police-issued baton above his shoulder and yelling at the international sprinter to ‘get out’ while a female officer frantically shouts ‘there’s a baby in the car’.

Mr Dos Santos exits the car, and clearly looking distressed and confused, backs away and pleads ‘What did I do?’.

Two Scotland Yard officers grab hold of his top before pulling his arms behind his back and handcuffing him as the sprinter shouts ‘My kid’s in the car, bro’ before he screams out in pain.

Mr Dos Santos, 28, repeatedly asks throughout the seven-minute footage why he’s been detained and followed to which officers allege he was ‘trying to evade them’ and then claim ‘they can smell weed in the car’.

The sprinter laughs and responds: ‘Do you know who I am? You can smell cannabis? Are you dumb?’

The distressing encounter took place on July 4, 2020, after the couple drove back to their West London home from training.

At one point the sprinter, who competed for Portugal in the 400m sprint at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, tells officers he’s bleeding to which they say it had been caused by his actions.

Mr Dos Santos says that they were following him for no reason and that he knew they were following him and then asked for what reason were they following him, and that he was bleeding.

He then goes on to say that they were so funny. That he was an athlete and to look at his car, and the number plates.

An officer then carries out a search on suspicion of him having drugs, but no drugs were discovered.

Towards the end of the footage, Mr Dos Santos accuses officers of being racist and said he was taking every single one of their names.

He said: ‘You are all racist p*,’ he says. ‘You are racists, all you lot are racists, racist guys racist feds, racist police officers. Hurry up. I live here. I live right here. What are you lot doing? For what reason? There’s nothing here, bro.

The footage was shown at a disciplinary hearing in southeast London and has now been released by the IOPC.

Now we know why the Metropolitan Police have such a bad standing, this is despicable behaviour by the police.

This, of course, doesn’t just happen to people of colour, it happens to all people, but generally, that doesn’t make the news.

This isn’t just a black thing, it’s a police thing, and before anybody says anything, I’m not a racist in any shape or form.

Whoever this happens to, this is totally unacceptable conduct from the police. There’s a time, place and situations for this type of response, and this incident patently doesn’t qualify.

It took five police officers to apprehend Dos Santos. You can’t even get 1 to come out if you’ve been burgled these days.

It appears that anybody can be stopped regardless of who they are. However, it doesn’t take 5 officers to stop a person under stop and search.

If the police want to arrest weed smokers, they should just take a walk on our streets, the aroma is oozing out of homes and on the streets, but of course, that would be too much hard work for them.

This isn’t a good look for a police force that is supposed to be changing its ways.

As A Reward For Fighting Ukraine, Putin Pardons And Releases A Killer Who Used A Meat Grinder To Dispose Of His Lover’s Body

A Russian killer who used a meat grinder to dispose of his lover’s body has been exonerated and freed from prison by Vladimir Putin as a reward for fighting in the war against Ukraine.

Dmitry Zelensky, 41, who has the same surname as the Ukrainian president, was serving an 11-year sentence in a high-security penal colony for strangling university graduate Tatiana Melekhina, 27, to death before dismembering her body.

A law enforcement source said the exceptional cruelty of the murder had shocked even hardened detectives.

The source said that he didn’t just dismember her body, he separated the meat and bones and made mincemeat. He then washed this mincemeat down the toilet into the sewage system and threw the bones into the river. This was his plan to hide the murder.

A huge search was launched for the missing Tatiana after her father reported her disappearance.

Zelensky, from Perm, finally admitted to killing her after an argument. He’d concealed from his lover that he was married with a daughter.

When his 44-year-old wife, also called Tatiana found out, she said that she didn’t know what to say, and that she didn’t know he could be so cruel.

The victim’s sister Oksana expressed outrage that the family were not told of Zelensky’s release. She said at his trial, it was declared that they would be notified of where he was, and his movements, but they weren’t told anything.

She said that her father had written to ask for details, but no one had answered them.

His pardon and freedom were confirmed by Zelensky’s mother, Galina. It’s not known where he fought in the war.

His mother, Galina said that her son went to war for many reasons and that he wanted to atone for what he’d done.

When Zelensky confessed to killing his lover, it emerged that he’d promised her a fresh start in a big city.

They drove from their remote Russian town of Gubakha, but she never arrived in the regional capital of Perm.

In fact, married father Zelensky had no intention of moving permanently to Perm.

Tatiana was reported missing by her father after she failed to call him to say she’d arrived.

She’d promised him before leaving on the 250-mile drive that she would call him as soon as she got to the city.

Russians have voiced fears about the number of hardened criminals permitted to fight for six months for Vladimir Putin, then pardoned and allowed to return to normal life, amid fears of a new crime wave.

At the start of the year, Vladimir Putin started handing out medals to reward violent convicts who were recruited from Russian prisons for their courageous fighting in Ukraine.

The Ministry of Defence announced in March that thousands of Russian prisoners who fought for the private mercenary army Wagner would be pardoned and freed.

Some would say that there was something extremely wrong with the Russians, but we shouldn’t tarnish all Russians because they have a leader who is the devil himself.

This is Vladimir Putin who seems to make the rules as he goes along, and I’m actually not surprised that brutality and atrocities are accepted, even glorified, instead of condemned.

Clearly, Vladimir Putin is as mad as a box of frogs, and this just highlights what Putin is all about.

Velensky was married with a child as well, he should have got life, and when I say life, I mean life, but this is Russia after all!

Only an evil man like Vladimir Putin could pardon such a crime, which only makes him a monster as well, and we should never feel empathy towards a nation that wants to destroy someone else. Killing is killing, it’s nothing more than genocide, and nothing good will come out of this war, and Vladimir Putin is scraping the barrel for the lowest of the low.

What A Load Of Rubbish!

Rotting piles of decaying waste have been lining the streets of the East End in the second week of a month-long walkout by refuse collectors.

Residents, politicians and tourists urged Tower Hamlets council to urgently come to a deal with the striking workers as rotting food and discarded nappies lay in mounds up to 6f high on some roads.

Unite the Union members walked out on September 18 in a dispute over pay and conditions. It was originally scheduled to be a fortnight of industrial action, but when a deal couldn’t be struck, they extended the walkout until October 15.

On Tuesday morning Tower Hamlets town hall put a fresh deal to the union, which will be voted on.

Minister for London Paul Scully said the mess had to be cleaned up as soon as possible after residents reported rats swarming the piles of rubbish in the tourist hot spot of Shoreditch.

He told a newspaper outlet that the first thing people think about regarding council services is getting their bins emptied and that residents and visitors alike would be appalled and put off by the site of rubbish piling up on the streets.

He said that the unions and councils need to stay in the room together until a fair agreement is sorted. This wasn’t fair to people who pay their council tax and local businesses whose customers will start to go elsewhere.

A private waste collection service, Bywaters, was employed by the council to target the worst-hit areas following grave concerns over fire safety.

On Tuesday it was spotted cleaning up mounds of bin bags in bustling Brick Lane, the road famous for its many curry restaurants, bars and beigel shops.

Meanwhile, more than 200 refuse workers and supporters assembled in Blackwall near Canary Wharf station.

A strike by refuse workers in neighbouring Newham, which was scheduled to start, but was called off after the council came to a deal with Unite. It included the town hall reviewing night shift payments and offering full-time employment to agency staff.

Labour London Assembly member Unmesh Desai said a new deal was being put to Unite members by Tower Hamlets council.

He urged Tower Hamlet’s independent Mayor Lutfur Rahman to work with the strikers.

He said he condemned the council for failing to come to an agreement, for using private companies to try and break the strike and for leaving residents facing this level of health and fire risk with rubbish everywhere.

Tower Hamlets is a lovely prosperous place, especially Brick Lane and Petticoat Lane. However, since the refuse strike, it has become extremely smelly and repulsive as you walk along the streets of Tower Hamlets. You have to hold your breath as you walk along because the smell truly makes you feel sick.

There are heaps of rubbish all along the streets of Tower Hamlets. Stepney stinks like a sewer, and it will put a lot of eating businesses out of business if this carries on because, after all, who wants to go into a cafe or restaurant and then come out and smell all of this rubbish that hasn’t been collected?

As I wandered along I could see 6ft piles of rubbish that hadn’t been collected. Residential streets in Tower Hamlets were scattered with rubbish where the rubbish sacks had been torn open by vermin and all the rubbish was on the pavements.

The people pay their taxes to have their bins collected, and if they can’t come to an agreement on what they want, then the council tax that we pay for this service should be adjusted and we should be given some money back because the people pay for a service that evidently they’re not getting, and if you’re not getting the service, why should you have to pay for it?

‘Absurd’ Council Order Bans Leather Footballs On School Playgrounds

A council has been criticised for banning leather footballs in an absurd move under powers that permit local authorities to issue diktats banning unkempt gardens, loud TVs and even messy chalk markings.

Sefton Council in Merseyside used its powers to impose a community protection notice (CPN) on a local school following a considerable number of complaints raised by residents.

The directive prohibited the use of heavy leather footballs and insisted that pupils only use light flyway or foam footballs instead.

The order is among a number of strange CPNs imposed by councils across England in recent years that have been unearthed by campaign group the Manifesto Club, which challenges what it calls ‘the hyper-regulation of public spaces’.

It said the ‘cowboy powers’ should be scrapped, arguing that the majority of CPNs were unnecessary or could be pursued in other ways.

A newspaper outlet reported that the campaigners found that nearly 26,000 community protection warnings (CPWs) and CPNs were issued across England last year, up from 14,000 in 2014/15.

CPWs are first issued by councils to alleged perpetrators of anti-social behaviour, and this can be elevated to a CPN if the behaviour persists unabated.

The community powers can be used by the police, local authorities and housing associations that are permitted to do so by councils.

They were brought in as part of a raft of measures to replace anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) in 2014, but unlike ASBOs, CPNs don’t have to be approved by a court.

More than 200 councils issued the orders last year, with 35 sending out notices for messy or overgrown gardens.

Other notices included 10 CPNs for feeding birds, 23 for begging, 16 for neighbour disputes and 14 for barking dogs.

Mendip Council imposed a notice in 2020/21 for someone for chalk markings, said to have caused alarm and distress.

In all, almost 48,000 CPNs have been issued since 2014. Breaching a CPN is a criminal offence punishable by a fine of up to £2,500.

The most prolific councils were Durham, which issued 819 orders, and Nottingham, which issued 543.

On the football ban, Sefton Council said it only imposed the ban on leather balls for a few months, after which the successful order was lifted.

Some CPNs were also used to target serious problems such as domestic abuse, drugs and violence. But the Manifesto Club claims using community powers in this way risks ‘trivialis(ing) criminal activity’ and prevents police from properly investigating potential crimes.

It was a huge mistake to give councils powers because they just can’t be trusted to exercise those powers fairly.

We now have all these trumped-up mini-dictators who believe that they’re so important that they’re crazed with power over the people that they serve.

They’re paid by the taxpayer, therefore, they should be questionable over their decisions.

I’m guessing that the people who are living close to this school complained about the noise the children were making, so why on earth did they buy a house next to a school? If they wanted a quiet life they should have bought a house in the suburbs. The world in Sefton has truly gone mad, just like its Council.

This order was written, presumably by someone who doesn’t like to have fun and evidently has no idea what a football looks like, and they clearly have ‘Veys haff veys off making you obey’.

Well, there goes the future of football and children enjoying themselves.

We are now a communist country. Freedom is over and control in every facet of our lives is in place. 

‘Uptick In Shoplifting’ Prompts Aldi Staff To Wear Cameras

Staff at supermarket chain Aldi are to be given body-worn cameras as the German discounter becomes the latest retailer to bring in more security measures amidst increasing rates of shoplifting across the country.

UK boss Giles Hurley said that the company hadn’t been immune to reported rises in people looting from shops, a rising pattern of behaviour seen nationwide, with some brazen thieves simply filling up carrier bags with items and leaving.

Security staff and shop assistants are being offered the devices, which record video and audio as a deterrent to would-be thieves, on a trial basis while Aldi bosses evaluate their effectiveness in reducing crime and threats to staff.

Aldi is the latest in a long line of major retailers to introduce body cameras, coming after Waitrose, the Co-op, Morrisons and Tesco, which has committed to giving the technology to every member of frontline staff.

Mr Hurley made an announcement as he unveiled the latest company’s results, which revealed a 14 per cent climb in revenue to £15.5 billion as customers opted for more affordable supermarkets amidst the cost of living crisis.

In remarks first reported by The Grocer, the Aldi CEO said that there’s been an uptick in shoplifting across the industry and they were not immune to that.

He said that with body cams, they currently have a trial which is underway in part of their business, exploring what benefits they can derive from that for their colleagues.

He added that they have an absolutely fantastic team there at Aldi and they were very clear that would expect a safe and secure working environment and it was therefore a priority for them.

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said this summer that shoplifting had risen 27 per cent across ten of the largest cities in the United Kingdom, with some cities up to as much as 68 per cent.

It estimates that stores lost £953 million to customer theft last year, the most significant loss on record in recent years, and official statistics issued by the Office for National Statistics reveal that shoplifting increased 24 per cent between March 2022 and March 2023.

Callous thieves are even targeting charity shops, with 80 per cent of non-profits reporting a rise in thefts of donated goods.

Shops are having to take desperate measures to discourage thieves, from installing facial recognition cameras to locking up baby formula.

The problem is that this will take a lot of money to cover this type of security, and it’s not cheap, but who will foot the bill, of course, the consumer will foot the bill when they all put all their prices up.

The Government are happy to give money to uncontrolled mass immigration, but they won’t enable the people who were born in this country, just make any sense at all.

There really is no real deterrent, and the police are not interested, and if somehow the perpetrators do actually find themselves in court, the judges let them off anyway. I can only assume that criminality is not only tolerated but actively facilitated by our system.

These store attendants might be wearing body cameras now, but no job is worth the risk of getting injured or even killed.

I guess the reason the police don’t get involved in these incidences is that why would you face a criminal with a knife if there’s a fair chance the judge would feel sorry for them and tell them that if they’re a good boy or girl then they can go home and behave.

Our Broken Care System Left A Disabled Man With A Sandwich And Two Drinks For 60 Hours

Steven King hasn’t had a hot meal for as long as he can remember. He hasn’t had lunch for years, and hasn’t even been out of the house for three years, he said.

In 2019, the disabled former retail worker said he was left entirely on his own, with just a sandwich and two glasses of drink for 60 hours. He was unable to visit the toilet or take his medication and said he was told to contact 999 if he needed a drink. This was an experience that left him contemplating taking his own life.

Steven lives on his own and needs the support of carers to support him with the most crucial tasks, which include personal care, preparing food and taking his medication. However, the lack of care staff is appalling, and that deficiency is being experienced by millions across the country. One which has left Steven dangerously isolated.

He said, not knowing if people will turn up and who it will be, and that the whole care system was broken.

He said that there aren’t enough carers and there aren’t enough people wanting to do the job and that even on good days, he said that he has to survive on a sandwich or Weetabix for breakfast until someone comes along eventually to make him his tea.

Anne Pridmore, 83, who has cerebral palsy said that the crisis in care was terrifying. That it wasn’t getting any better, and that it made you feel extremely vulnerable, and that a lot of people who are disabled have to rely on help from carers because they don’t have any relations or friends they can call on, but she said it wasn’t always like this.

She said that she’s seen things change for the worse. It’s been happening for a long time, and it used to be extremely easy to get people to work as a carer, but now it’s just a nightmare.

Carers are not rewarded or paid the correct wages, in fact, you’d likely get paid much more walking someone’s dogs.

Age UK said that 2.6 million people in England aged over 50 are unable to get vital care, including hundreds of thousands stuck on waiting lists, and that at Age UK they’re extremely concerned about the plight of all the older people with an unmet need for care, particularly if they’re living alone.

There are some extremely good carers out there who put their best into their job, but in the end, they just burn out because clients die, and they’re manipulated by the company they work for.

These carers are just human beings who have to listen to everyone’s problems, and if that carer is compassionate, they try to make their clients’ lives better and go above and beyond what is needed of them.

Care work can be heartbreaking and soul-destroying, and it’s not a job that everyone can do. You really have to be a certain kind of person to do the job.

Being a carer can be an extremely rewarding career looking after vulnerable people, but the wages make it extremely hard if you’re a sole earner, and if you want to make more money, then you would have to work extremely long hours, working seven days a week, and also over the Christmas period.

Domiciliary care has always been a badly paid job, with those care workers only being paid for the time they spend with the client, with no payment for travelling time or fuel or bus fares.

It takes a certain kind of person to do domiciliary care. You’re essentially on your own with the client and their needs may be complex. You may also find yourself getting covered in their bodily waste or find them dead in bed when you go and get them up in the morning.

This is not a menial job, and these carers should be paid much more than they do now. The problem is our Government don’t care about the elderly, they’d probably rather they die so that they don’t have to be supported because in their eyes they’re a burden to society.

Can Rishi Sunak Win The Election Next May?

Rishi Sunak is set to slash the despised inheritance tax and secure the triple lock that guarantees state pension payments ahead of the next election, fuelling speculation he could go to the country as soon as May.

The Prime Minister could make an announcement on IHT before the Conservative Party Conference next week, pledging to lower the death tax when it’s possible and ultimately scrap it.

Cabinet minister Grant Shapps said inheritance tax was deeply unfair but stressed the Government were currently in a fiscal straightjacket. And Labour branded the move ‘an unfunded tax cut of £7.2 billion per year’ for the most well-off.

At the same time, Rishi Sunak is set to rule out breaking the pension pledge despite the enormous cost to the Treasury of keeping it, after being told it would be political suicide to try to cut payments to the old. And he’s looking to overrule opposition from Labour to shire Tories to scrap environmental regulations on housebuilding to allow 114,000 more homes to be built in the countryside.

Treasury officials had been discussing taking a one-off break from the triple lock, which raises pensions each April by whatever is highest out of average earnings rises inflation or 2.5 per cent, due to inflation running at nearly 7 per cent.

There had been debate about ditching the guarantee in the next manifesto, but a newspaper outlet understands that voters’ response to the idea of axing the policy has been so negative that Tory strategists have ruled out any changes.

It comes as a newspaper outlet reported that local authorities are being told to be election-ready for the Spring, suggesting a general election could be held at the same time as local elections at the start of May, but No 10 declined to comment on the speculation.

The Prime Minister had refused to commit to the policy beyond next year’s 8.5 per cent rise in state pensions after experts said it could add up to £45 billion a year to the welfare bill by 2050.

A Government source said that fears over the growing burden of the measure, which was introduced by the Coalition Government in the 2010 Budget, have been overridden in No 10.

Some Tory MPs and campaigners in the upcoming by-elections in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth have voiced fears that abandoning the policy would cost the party dearly at the ballot box. The triple lock has been seen as crucial in securing the ‘silver vote’ for the Conservatives in the past four General Elections.

It’s called double taxation folks. You work extraordinarily hard, pay your taxes and then end up paying additional taxes over and over again. The Government are taxing you to death and either people do realise it but won’t say anything against the establishment because they’re too frightened or they just can’t be bothered.

They increase the pension age over and over because once you’re dead, you no longer exist and you’re not theirs to worry about.

The only thing that we can be sure of is death and taxes.

What the Government don’t seem to realise that that without the people the country would collapse. We are the hard-working taxpayers that built this country, and the people should be treated with respect, not everyone else that comes to this country.

It’s okay to pay your taxes, but it will have very little effect on you if you’re dead.

We are being taxed over and over again and then it’s being given to someone else, and people should never say that they’re used to it, but living is tough. If people say they’re used to it gives the Government a reason to tax you even more.

After A Viral Video Showed A Young Black Girl Being Skipped During The Medal Ceremony, Gymnastics Ireland Apologizes For Racism 

Gymnastics Ireland is embroiled in a racism row after a startling video showed a young black competitor being skipped over during a medal ceremony as her white counterparts were each given an award.

The Team USA gymnast was among scores online condemning the actions of the official, writing on X that there was no room for racism in any sport or at all.

The video shows a lineup of young gymnasts awaiting their awards, with the little girl excitedly waiting for her medal before being ignored.

Gymnastics Ireland has now apologised for the incident after the girl’s parents alleged the snub was due to racism.

The sports body said it engaged immediately with the competitor’s parents following their complaint over the incident.

The girl’s mother said the family were very upset at how their daughter had been treated by Gymnastics Ireland and that they believe she was ignored because she’s black, the Irish Independent reports.

Many have pointed out that the official strode off with the last remaining medal at the end of the clip, with all the children in the lineup receiving one apart from the girl.

Gymnastics Ireland said that it engaged with the woman, who’s now no longer a member of the sporting body after she decided not to renew her membership.

They said she accepted fully that what had happened had not been acceptable but stressed that it had not been intentional. The official concerned said that upon realising the mistake they immediately rectified it and ensured that the competitor concerned was presented with her medal before she left the Field of Play (FoP).

The official also voiced profound regret for what they described as an honest mistake and requested the opportunity to apologise in person to the competitor and her family. This request was initially declined.

A written apology provided by the identified person has since been issued to the competitor and her family.

In a statement which said that initially, they attempted to address the matter through the informal process of their discipline and complaints policy. However, following a series of communications with the parents they informed Gymnastics Ireland that they wouldn’t be engaging in the process and were seeking legal advice.

Footage of the presentation in Dublin in March 2022 has since gone viral online.

This is truly awful, the poor child, and what was the explanation from the medal giver? Evidently, it was a mistake. She should have been disciplined because she carried out a spiteful, despicable act, that, on the surface, seems to be a racist-driven act. She just strolled off with the medal still in her hand and she didn’t go back to rectify it, which looks very intentional.

This definitely did not look like a mistake. In what way could it have been a mistake? This woman should have been publicly sacked, but she quit before that happened. She should have been named and shamed.

This young girl is owed one big apology. And how was this unintentional? She had one job to do!

Whether this was a simple mistake or intentional, the poor child would have been left devastated because while all her fellow gymnasts were receiving their medals, she was being overlooked, and this girl will remember this sickening, hateful incident for the rest of her life.

She must have been heartbroken. Hopefully, this won’t hold her back and she will end up being a super gymnast and win tons of medals.

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