A chief constable has apologised personally to two student nurses who had to wait four hours for help after a gang of intruders threatened to rape them.
Flatmates Amy Overend, 19, and Melissa Cooper, 22, barricaded themselves in their rooms and rang 999 when four men sneaked into their hospital accommodation shouting abuse.
But when they called again after an hour they were told they were classed as a ‘ secondary emergency’ because they were behind locked doors.
Miss Overend then called her father, an ex-magistrate, who repeatedly called the control room to demand that someone was sent round.
By the time officers arrived the gang had run off, but the nurses were worried they would return.
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‘As they were leaving, they said, ‘We are going to remember your faces and names, and next time, we are going to rape you’.
Of course a story like this comes from England. I would point out though that New Jersey, New York or Chicago have similar incidents everyday, some of which I’ve witnessed myself. When you criminalize self-defense, criminals can operate freely because there is no way for the police to cover all crimes at once. In the above story there were 40 simultaneous violent crimes being dealt with by an over taxed police force, so in reality this was not the fault of police. The streets in England are much more violent than the streets of my new home of Mauldin S.C., where most of our violence is driven by drug problems and the addicts tend to target each other rather than the heavily armed population.
But even here there is violence the difference is our recognition that the solution to criminality is to arm potential victims, thus making crime unlikely to pay.
Rob Taylor,
You’re right this is a good reason to own a gun.
Or at least some pepper spray.