Stabbing in Russell Square

[Flashman]

Ok so its the Mail and has to be taken with a pinch of salt but according to a neighbour of the knifeman...

....neighbour Parmjit Singh, a BBC radio DJ known as 'DJ Precious' on the Asian network, said he had known 'impressionable' Bulhan for seven years, adding: 'His mental health problems are a scapegoat.

The 36-year-old said: 'They said he had mental health issues but that was not the boy I knew.

'The news of his mental illness is completely new, we never heard that. Honestly, I think his mental health problems are a scapegoat.'

Asked what he thought motivated the attack, Parmjit said: 'I think peer pressure, hanging around with gangs. He wasn't working, he was hanging around with Somalian boys and I think they had possible links to serious ISIS people - not directly, but they see all this stuff and are inspired by it....

Russell Square knifeman tried to kill himself THREE times this year | Daily Mail Online

A little bit more plausible than a Norwegian kid inspired by Andreas Breveik !

[SueEllen]

To be fair I've only found out people have/had mental health problems due to random discussions and/or helping them do something charitywise. It is not something they come out with to everyone so I wouldn't expect their neighbours to know when even some of their close family are unaware.

[darmstadt]

Ok so its the Mail and has to be taken with a pinch of salt but according to a neighbour of the knifeman...



A little bit more plausible than a Norwegian kid inspired by Andreas Breveik !

Why not? There was a German-Iranian inspired by right wing madmen recently...

[NickFitz]

A little bit more plausible than a Norwegian kid inspired by Andreas Breveik !

Because BBC DJs are renowned for their unparalleled expertise in diagnosing mental health issues

Also, your sarcasm detector seems to be broken.

[vetran]

the question is assuming they are all insane not inspired by ISIS are these clusters happening now. Frequently the mentally ill take their own lives very occasionally do they take the lives of their loved ones and rarer those of acquaintances. Taking the lives of innocents they don't know and don't feel threatened by seems a little unusual.

[NickFitz]

the question is assuming they are all insane not inspired by ISIS are these clusters happening now. Frequently the mentally ill take their own lives very occasionally do they take the lives of their loved ones and rarer those of acquaintances. Taking the lives of innocents they don't know and don't feel threatened by seems a little unusual.

It is unusual. That's why it's news.

[vetran]

It is unusual. That's why it's news.

indeed but why is it happening?

[SueEllen]

the question is assuming they are all insane not inspired by ISIS are these clusters happening now. Frequently the mentally ill take their own lives very occasionally do they take the lives of their loved ones and rarer those of acquaintances. Taking the lives of innocents they don't know and don't feel threatened by seems a little unusual.

One of my siblings was doing a lot of work for the secure mental health hospitals a few years ago. As part of her induction she was shown the workings of the hospitals even though her day to day work had nothing to do with it.

In those hospitals generally women "attack" themselves and men attack other people. The majority of them were put inside for attacking other people.

indeed but why is it happening?

Also you need to remember with the reports of terrorism the media is jumping on every unusual incident there as before most cases would be lucky to get a good write up in the local paper.

[minestrone]

Off his meds

[NickFitz]

indeed but why is it happening?

There is no reason why.

Things like this have happened before, and will happen again. Think of Hungerford, or Dunblane, or Cumbria. There was no pattern in any of those, no rhyme or reason; and there is no reason now. We want there to be reasons because we're scared when things don't make sense. But sense is something we impose on reality, not something that inheres in it. Sometimes, things make no sense.