The horrific knife attack in Manchester’s Arndale shopping centre, has predictably, been the subject of what many would see as obfuscation by Greater Manchester Police. Rather than hold the alleged assailant on terrorism, attempted murder or weapons charges, GMP have opted to hold this bastard under the Mental Health Act.
Although it is quite possible that this attack was the result of someone off his meds and off his head, the use of the Mental Health Act in this case is going to look to the public like the police are trying to hide the attacker’s motive. Let’s not forget that Greater Manchester Police have form in this area. Back on New Years Eve 2018, Manchester was the site of another similar knife attack targetting random individuals. In that case a Muslim man screaming ‘Allah’ and lunging at people with a knife, was apprehended by police and held, not on a terrorism charge, but under the Mental Health Act. Fast forward five months later and Greater Manchester Police eventually charge this savage, named as Mahdi Mohamud aged 25, with terrorism offences.
Trying to look at this case somewhat dispassionately, this course of action may be due to the alleged attacker being unfit to be interviewed because he is fraggling out in the interview room or in a holding cell. Normally I could see this being a legitimate explanation, if it were not for Greater Manchester Police’s behaviour in the Mahdi Mohamud case. If he has been considered as unfit to be interviewed then I suspect that a few months or more will elapse whilst the latest Manchester savage receives treatment before he is charged with an offence. Unfortunately for GMP, this explanation will not remove the disquiet in the public’s mind or the suspicion that GMP is hiding the motives for attacks where Islam is involved.
Remanding an alleged attacker under the Mental Health Act has many advantages for those in the police wishing to hide, for a while, the existence of an Islamic attack. The advantage that the police would have in this most recent case is because the suspect is now a patient, without the capacity to be interviewed, charging can be delayed. This means that charging can be put off until such a time that the public are no longer as angry as they may have been at the time closer to the attack.
Whilst it may be quite possible that Greater Manchester Police are telling the truth. I’m not sure that I am ready to trust a police force that not only did bugger all until prodded to do so about the mass rape of non-Muslim women and children in Rochdale but also did their utmost to hide a similar Islam-motivated stabbing attack.
