My husband, Laurence, was in bed, our eight-year-old daughter, Rosa, and five-year-old son, Louis, were fast asleep and our tree-lined road in a middle-class suburb of North London seemed as safe and quiet as it always did.

All that was holding the door was my husband, a kind and gentle solicitor of 5ft 8in.

But the level of violence was beyond belief. Our ordinary terrace four-bedroom house in a suburban street was neither rough nor grand. It seemed an unlikely location for an extraordinary act of random violence.

And if these urban terrorists are ever caught they'll get a pat on the head and a nice ankle bracelet; instead of 15 years hard labour.
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- Mark R, Coventry UK, 7/4/2009 4:52

Can we please have less of the 'Middle Class' stuff . This is a family attacked in their home. Working class or Middle class is really irrelevant although I am sure that so called Middle Class people are much less likely to suffer such an incident
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- Paul Taylor, shenzhen China, 7/4/2009 8:23

Quote:
All that was holding the door was my husband, a kind and gentle solicitor of 5ft 8in.

"The man was arrested on suspicion of gross indecency; one woman was arrested on suspicion of gross indecency, being drunk on an aircraft, and failing to obey instructions of the crew; the other woman was arrested on suspicion of being drunk on an aircraft.'

Mother-of-one Miss Irby, who is the estate agent daughter of Old Etonian banker Paul Aschan, was at her family's £600,000 Fulham home.

'Clare is a wreck, she's devastated,' a family member said. 'There was no sex. The whole thing is untrue. She is not that sort of person."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168201/Society-girl-arrested-drunken-grope-passenger-flight--model-girlfriend-slept-seat.html



Fucking genius!

hang on! Unmarried mother AND middle class!

Does...not...comp...ute....

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Wonder if the ratings have been manipulated while they were down?

Every homeowner's nightmare: A mother describes the terrifying night seven burglars tried to smash into her family home

Love the headline from that link at the top:



So then, as someone who rents a one bedroom flat (ie not a family home), does that make me immune to this sort of thing?

I think the lesson the Mail is trying to teach is that people are expendable- but property is sacrosanct! Damage to, I dunno, chandeliers and china and whatever else the middle-classes have is infinitely worse than working class chavs-to-be getting killed.