London is crawling with radical Islamists. Is it crazy to hope that it’s just some crazy lunatic and not an Islamist?
Via Sky News:
A man has been arrested after a woman was found beheaded in a back garden in north London, according to reports.
The victim was found at an address in Nightingale Road, Edmonton just after 1pm.
Scotland Yard gave few details but said that a man is in custody.
The force said: “Police were called to an address in Nightingale Road at 13.07pm today to reports of a stabbing incident.
“On arrival officers discovered a female collapsed in a garden area.
“A man has been detained and remains in custody.
“At this very early stage we are not in a position to give further details.”
It is not known what weapon was used.
There is no suggestion that the killing had any terrorist motive.
Police say it's "too early" to say if there was a terrorist motive & don't yet know if victim and suspect were known to each other.
— Danny Shaw (@DannyShawBBC) September 4, 2014
Update:
I said above was it a crazed lunatic or an Islamist terrorist? In this case, it may have been both. I think that the police are at this moment saying may not be terrorist related because the man is local and may possibly have been out of his head. That said, it doesn’t mean that it wasn’t done “in the name of Islam”. As the locals note, he converted a year ago and may have been inspired by ISIS beheadings.
They are lucky more people were not hurt. But this is London with police with no readily available guns, requiring greater risk to the public and to the police.
Via Telegraph:
An 82-year-old woman was beheaded in a north London suburban garden by a man with a machete.
Palmira Silva, a widow and grandmother described as “such a sweet lady” by one neighbour, was killed outside her home in Edmonton in a random but frenzied assault by a 25-year-old.
Witnesses said they saw the man, wielding a foot-long blade, attack a passing vehicle and a cat before roaming back gardens looking for a victim.
Police believe he also tried to attack two people at another home in the street, but they were able to escape without injury.The man was arrested after armed officers, who had distracted him to prevent further attacks, cornered him in a house and brought him down with a Taser stun gun. Some officers were injured.
Mrs Silva, who was of Italian descent, was pronounced dead at the scene.
One line of inquiry for detectives is understood to be that the man was inspired by recent footage of terrorists beheading two American journalists in Syria.
