After watching and enjoying various cop shows over the years I've started thinking about murder and attempted murder.
How close have you all been to a murder or attempted murder..? When I was living on Green Lanes, North London someone was brutally murdered about 5 yards from the entrance to the block of flats I was living in. The victim had his head almost completely cut off, after talking to a policeman who was doing the rounds for witnesses he told me there was a tiny bit of skin from the back of the spinal column to the back of the neck keeping his head on
After I moved from there a couple of years later to Warwick Gardens in what I thought was a nicer area (although it was probably only 500 yards away from Green Lanes as the crow flies) there was another murder about a hundred yards from my building, I could see the house and the forensics people from my kitchen window.
I then was right in the middle of an incident of attempted murder (although the Police could only charge the guy with GBH with intent for some reason) at work in the Queens Head where I worked. My boss got a bottle across the back of his head and one in the throat, the latter nicked his carotid artery. A couple of millimeters to one side and he would have bled to death in around 4 minutes
It was only down to me being out before the doorman and decking the guy that was standing over him with a broken bottle that things weren't considerably worse.
The pub closed down and I moved to Tottenham, since I've been here there have been another two murders, one about 400 yards away in one direction and the other about 600 yards away in the opposite direction
And there's another one a couple of years ago, whilst geographically it isn't that close (although still in Tottenham) it was the brutal murder of my mate's Dad who was in his 90s and beaten to death by some mad woman with a wine bottle.
Anyone else being this close to so many murders or is it just me..?
I think I need to move out of Tottenham.
