This story makes me shudder. Bijan Ebrahimi was a disabled Iranian who came to the UK. Unfortunately, he appears to have settled in one of those areas where many of the residents are only distinct from animals by virtue of appearance. Their intelligence and behavioural traits firmly identify them as simian, at best.
Bijan was wrongly labelled as a paedophile by certain mentally defective residents – notably, by Lee James, 24, and his accomplice, Stephen Norley, 25. By implication, other local residents – especially those close to James and Norley – were also involved.
Apparently, they had waged a campaign against Bijan as a result of the false conclusion they had reached about him, and which they were mentally incapable of dismissing when confronted with facts. Even when the police arrested Bijan based on residents’ insinuations, and found the accusations to be absolutely and totally false, those same residents – James and Norley in particular – persisted in their campaign against him.
You can read the story about what happened for yourselves. The upshot is that James was jailed for life for murder, and Norley for four years.
The part that I find most disturbing is that in the video Bijan took when James entered his house and started making threats you can see the woman in the background (apparently involved with James in some way) who was obviously also party to the campaign against him. It doesn’t take much imagination to picture the dealings of the sordid lair James and his associates inhabited, and how they convinced themselves of Bijan’s “guilt”.
The police have also been criticised for arresting and then releasing Bijan back into the morass created by James and the scum he was associated with. In effect, they made matters worse.
It’s frightening on many levels. That people like James, Norley, and any others who associated with them exist. That women like the one skulking in the background of the video can get away scot-free. That a false accusation of this nature can ever be allowed to escalate so far in the first place. And that police didn’t realise that they had fanned the flames with their action.