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sparkie · 29-03-2006, 14:29

5 years ago I was beaten up outside a shcool in rawtenstall while waiting for a friend. I never even retaliated, I had an inch long gash under my lip, a bust nose, 2 black eyes, a loose tooth, a bust lip and plenty of cuts inside my mouth. I walked with my friend to his mothers works where they called an ambulance. I needed 4 stitches in the gash and 3 weeks before the swelling went down. I also missed a week of college and about 6 weeks of gigs, due to the injururies.

After being released from bury general, i went to rawtenstall police station where photos were taken of my injuries, and i was told it would be looked into.

A week later the police said they were dropping the charges as a lady, who just happened to be good friends with the parents of the boy involved, who couldn't possibly have seen what happened from her car 150yards away, had stated that 'the 2 young lads without uniform' had started it, which given the fact that i am female was a very strange comment to make!!! Although she admitted seeing me being thrown over a parked car!!!! The police took her word for it over ours as she was an adult and I was 18 and my friend 17.

That is when i lost faith in local policing they just can't be bothered to deal with these kinds of incidents, they are not interested in peoples safety or deterence of juveniles as it doesn't come high on their importance of crime listings, unless you are seriously injured or dead then they do not want to know. It's pathetic.

Oh and i have a scar from the gash as well, and I will never go around that area of rawtenstall again, all we were doing is picking a friend up from school.

29-03-2006, 14:29	#9
sparkie Senior Member+ Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,449 Liked: 21 times Rep Power: 928	Re: Police Waiting Times 5 years ago I was beaten up outside a shcool in rawtenstall while waiting for a friend. I never even retaliated, I had an inch long gash under my lip, a bust nose, 2 black eyes, a loose tooth, a bust lip and plenty of cuts inside my mouth. I walked with my friend to his mothers works where they called an ambulance. I needed 4 stitches in the gash and 3 weeks before the swelling went down. I also missed a week of college and about 6 weeks of gigs, due to the injururies. After being released from bury general, i went to rawtenstall police station where photos were taken of my injuries, and i was told it would be looked into. A week later the police said they were dropping the charges as a lady, who just happened to be good friends with the parents of the boy involved, who couldn't possibly have seen what happened from her car 150yards away, had stated that 'the 2 young lads without uniform' had started it, which given the fact that i am female was a very strange comment to make!!! Although she admitted seeing me being thrown over a parked car!!!! The police took her word for it over ours as she was an adult and I was 18 and my friend 17. That is when i lost faith in local policing they just can't be bothered to deal with these kinds of incidents, they are not interested in peoples safety or deterence of juveniles as it doesn't come high on their importance of crime listings, unless you are seriously injured or dead then they do not want to know. It's pathetic. Oh and i have a scar from the gash as well, and I will never go around that area of rawtenstall again, all we were doing is picking a friend up from school.