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Lynch mob strikes near Manchester
Just before midnight on 25 March 2005, a gang of men beat Paul Cooper, a disabled man, to death in his apartment near the centre of Heywood. According to the authorities, he had been subjected to a ‘brutal and prolonged’ attack.
Only when neighbours refused to come forward with evidence of the attack did the police reveal that ‘he was an entirely innocent victim of mistaken identity, and not as widely believed a ‘sex offender’. This was to encourage them to speak out.
Even after police declared Paul Cooper innocent of the ‘paedophilia’ his killers had murdered him for, journalists described as ‘still palpable’ the climate of bigotry and vitriol that had sent the killers on the rampage in the first instance. One local was reported as saying that despite Cooper’s innocence ‘some people deserve to be killed’.
The sex abuse witch hunt has expanded to embrace or merge with a general nationwide climate of suspicion and fear as the people appear to be lurching towards a totalitarian agenda of control and retribution, extending now to an intolerance of all minority groups.
Near where Paul Cooper was killed there is a halfway house for prisoners. When the mob heard that there was a ‘paedophile’ there also, they attacked the building.
Only weeks before these events in the UK, CBC Radio in Canada aired a documentary on The Current about a man whose life was destroyed after being named and shamed at a police news conference. The Toronto police had made a
very public show of releasing the names of men accused in a 2003 child pornography raid, one of whom was James LeCraw. Five months later, the charges against LeCraw were withdrawn, but by then he had lost his job, his reputation – everything. Broke and depressed in the summer of 2004, he committed suicide.
United Kingdom
Lynch mob strikes near Manchester
Operation Ore collapses
The crime of Operation Ore – we present the evidence
Inside the British police state
The dirty tricks continue
British MP's litany of untruths
Adding to the climate of fear
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