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    Southport: 'Major incident' after reports of stabbing and 'number of casualties'
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    Southport: ‘Major incident’ after reports of stabbing and ‘number of casualties’

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    3. JoshieCl on

      Hearing alot about young kids being involved as the casualties and least 1 has passed away. Hope it’s wrong

    5. willington123 on

      Reports suggesting it’s a nursery or summer club, either way children involved. Just horrific.

    6. NegotiationNext9159 on

      I wish people would just not speculate until we know more. People claiming one thing only for others to claim something else. Must be horrible if you have people in that area not knowing if they’re ok and people all over social media with “well I heard”

    7. Wakingupisdeath on

      Doesn’t sound good.

      We seem to be getting one major incident after another recently :/

    8. signpostlake on

      Sky news reporting 13 ambulances and air ambulance involved. They’ve treated 8 stabbings and some victims sent to children’s hospital. Absolutely fucking awful.

    9. Yaarmehearty on

      That’s horrific, I used to go to Southport all the time, to think of something like that happening.

      At least they caught the person responsible, hopefully they are sent down for a long time. Let’s hope as many victims as possible can be saved, and that those involved are supported, even for those who aren’t injured this is going to be hugely traumatic.

    10. AlfaG0216 on

      I don’t even know what to say anymore. This country has real problems and seemingly nobody in any position of power wants to do anything about it.

    11. Sinister_Grape on

      This is local to me and the shite that’s flying around in work is ridiculous. RIP to the poor young victim and I hope to god no one else loses their life.

    12. craig536 on

      Love to the emergency services. The stuff I’ve heard has turned my stomach. Evil

    14. ___xXx__xXx__xXx__ on

      I hate that in the air there’s suspense about what the perpetrator looked like, and everybody is getting ready to draw battle lines. When Dunblane happened, none of this was an issue. We got to just be human, and acknowledge the horror of it, without it being this fight we were about to have to have. It occurs to me Jon Stewart made this same point just the other night.

    15. dyinginsect on

      I know it is not objectively worse when it is children, but it feels so much worse 🙁

    16. hmeeshy on

      Absolutely heart wrenching.

      I used to live on this road and my family still do so I’m familiar with the place where it’s happened.

      I just can’t imagine being able to do this to anyone let alone children.

      It’s also disheartening to watch other local people frothing at the mouth on facebook spreading wild, scaremongering and speculative nonsense.

      My heart breaks for the people and family involved and big respect to the emergency services who descended on the area en masse extremely fast.

    18. UuusernameWith4Us on

      Wrote this in response to a pro death penalty post that got deleted:

      If you bring back the death penalty for someone like this there is a risk that innocent people accused of other crimes would then also be executed under the same law. In the US, in their attempts to avoid executing innocent people, they’ve ended up with a system where the cost of executing someone is more than double the cost of locking them up for life (due to the lengthy appeals process) and they still sometimes get it wrong. Studies say that the death penalty has no deterrent effect so bringing it back wouldn’t stop killers killing – no one going on a murder spree is rationally weighing up the pros and cons, and often they’re suicidal. The only purpose the death penalty serves is to sate bloodlust, that isn’t a good reason to kill someone and it doesn’t really help anyone at all. That’s the case.

      Let the guy rot in prison on a whole life order, with all his hardened fellow inmates hating his guts and the guards occasionally accidentally looking the wrong way.