Hate Crime Vigil: Friday 30th Oct


by Chris Barnyard    
3:33 pm - October 28th 2009

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In response to this recent attack, the rise in the number of homophobic attacks in London, and previous hate attacks, a vigil has been organised in Trafalgar Square for this Friday 30th October 2009, 8pm.

The event is being organised by 17-24-30. Their aim for the vigil is to show the world that this anti-sociable behaviour is unacceptable.

Dr Petra Boynton adds:

Many of you will have read about the horrific attack on Ian Baynham in Trafalgar Square and how this is now treated as a murder following the decision to turn off life support. Any attack is horrific but this took place in Trafalgar Square which one would imagine to be one of the safest places in London.
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An additional vigil will be held in Liverpool on Sunday 1 November for James Parks, a trainee police officer aged 22, currently in hospital in a serious condition following a homophobic attack at the weekend.

You can join the 17-24-30 group on Facebook. More details about the event are here.

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5. Shatterface

My entire office was shocked by the homophobic attack on trainee cop James Parkes on Liverpool’s Stanley Street on Sunday. Liverpool doesn’t have a real equivalent of Manchester’s Canal Street but we’d like to consider the city gay-friendly.

There has been over a dozen arrests so far and they are mainly of boys in their mid-teens – one as young as 13.

The fact we normally associate homophobia with an older, more reactionary generation is really fucking depressing.

6. Shatterface

Further to the above: there’s to be a vigil on Stanley Street in Liverpool on Sunday 1st November, starting 8pm.

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8. DHG

Good stuff, I’ll do my very best to attend and show support.


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