WALTHAMSTOW: Teen stabbed near fun fair (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

resident, Clacton Road says...
6:40pm Tue 6 May 08

Today all of us who live in Clacton Road are in total shock. What happened yesterday cannot be adequately described in words. Some of us were at the fun fair in the park and just saw a mass of young boys charging up our road. People in the park were crying and screaming. The fun fair people were trying to help everyone in the park feel safe. Many of us could not get back into our homes until after 10.30pm, almost 5 hours after it all happened. Then we had to be escorted down the middle of the road by police and taken to each of our homes, all of which were taped off with police crime scene tapes. Outside my house there was a piece of evidence, with a police tag next to it. There were several more down the road. Forensic police arrived at about midnight and it was only this morning that the police tapes were taken down and we were allowed to go in and out of our houses again. Some of us who were not allowed home until late last night were lucky enough to have friends in neighbouring roads who took us into their homes until we knew we were being allowed home. If anything good came out of yesterday it was the way we all pulled together and helped each other out - unbelievable kindness from neighbours, many of whom we didn't even know by name until yesterday.

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superted, village borders ha! says...
9:13pm Tue 6 May 08

Ooh! A fair. Let's take the kids there on Bank Holiday says hubby - that will be nice.
Not in F-ing Walthamstow it wont. What a grim pathetic bunch of little twats live in this area. Nice to see the waste of an air ambulance on this situation. Good luck resident, things are only going to get worse - they breed like rats and will soon be outnumbering decent people until you cant take no more. Nuke the place!

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Mr Khalid, Walthamstow, says...
8:25am Wed 7 May 08

This sort of thing would not happen in Walthamstow Village. Much nicer there - have the fair in Walthamstow Village next year.

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Paul, Walthamstow says...
8:39am Wed 7 May 08

Superted get a brain, son. Who's 'they'? You probably read The Sun.
We've lived here for years and pathetic generalisations like yours hardly help.
You'll probably find that few if any of those invloved lived in the surrounding area.

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Clacton Road person, Walthamstow says...
9:02am Wed 7 May 08

It only takes a few idiots to spoil things. Why gangs decide to turn up at a kiddies fun fair to battle each other is a mystery. Can't they just book an arena somewhere?

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James, Orford Road, says...
9:13am Wed 7 May 08

Paul wrote:
Superted get a brain, son. Who's 'they'? You probably read The Sun. We've lived here for years and pathetic generalisations like yours hardly help. You'll probably find that few if any of those invloved lived in the surrounding area.

Talk about the pot callnig the kettle black. I have comments you have posted on here. You my friend are the small minded sun reader.

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Mr Khalid, walthamstows says...
10:55am Wed 7 May 08

is hapen becose no policemens go to streets no care no think just giveded the parking spedings tiket to the parson who laws abids and no do wrong. boys go stret drugdrink knifes sticks and kill the parson do no think no policemens is problam come now the boris meybe chenge?

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technomist, walthamstow says...
10:56am Wed 7 May 08

So the fair wasn't much fun then. Who gave permission for this event and what steps had they taken to ensure there was proper policing?

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?????????/, e17 says...
11:40am Wed 7 May 08

I attended this fair with my son who's 3 years old and from what i could tell this was a fair for children in the age bracket of 1-10yrs. why any self respecting teenager would want to hang around here trying to play the gangster is beyond me. things cannot be that bad that this is all they can do to entertain themselves on a hot bank holiday. At their age i was clubbing and chasing girls rather then trying to stab my peers was alot more fun and i'm still alive today.

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NB, buckhurst hill says...
12:23pm Wed 7 May 08

well what can i say? can there not be one day where someone doesnt get stabbed or have their head kicked in! im glad we wernt there to witness this, as i did go along with my kids had a great time but personally didnt want to stay out too long because i knew that trouble would happen! i feel for the people that were stuck out presumably most who had children! i must say when we were leaving there were alot of teenagers gathered in the park and i knew it just didnt look right! makes you not want to go out at all... and it really shouldnt feel like that!

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Clacton Road person, Walthamstow says...
1:15pm Wed 7 May 08

They have the fair there every year but I don't recall any trouble before.
Youth crime is a serious problem in many places but I doubt if Boris Johnson has any answers. Lack of decent role models and hope for the future don't help.

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laverne belle, clacton road says...
2:10pm Wed 7 May 08

I live on Clacton Road and was there when it first happened. It was very distressing to see the boy on the ground unable to get up....semi consiouse and as I thought at the time fighting for his life........this was after all some obliviouse womens child. I resent the comments made by superted if you despise walthamstow so much get the hell out and I dont appriciate you likening members of my community to rats ...I dont know anyone in my community who has had seven children like the know infamouse Karren matthews.
Its really hurtfull to know that people like you still live and breath imagine I see your son at a bus stop there will be no preconceptions in my mind of him and thats the way he will spend the rest of his life free from unwarrented judgement. When you see my black 13 year old son at a bus stop who may I add has just returned from a scholarship in japan you will hold preconceptions of him and this is what, because of the existence of people like you he will have to endure eternally.
but as Paul said you have made a grave geralisation which only succeeds in isolating sectors of our community...how can you say that they waisted an air abulance can you gaurentee the boy was not innocently ambushed.

The street is ussually a quiet and pleseant place ive lived there for 8 years and nothing of the sought has happened before I understand the perpertrators were from priory court, oliver close and other estates none of which are in the locality of clacton road.

Well all of as on clacton Road black, white and asian supported each other through what was a very distressing time for me it brought home the truth about what we are living in the midst of and I remember whilst watching this boy on the floor, what had happened so wrong in his life and the lives of his perpertrators to have comulated into such an event.

Instead of makeing you vile comments seperted.

Please join me and Pray for change

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Chuckles, Leyton says...
2:31pm Wed 7 May 08

What are you rattling on about luv?

Here's a hint: trying thinking before you type.

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belle, leytonstone says...
2:46pm Wed 7 May 08