Let me finish him off!

On 26 October 2011, The Daily Mail quoted John Onyenaychi thus:

“LET ME FINISH HIM OFF!”

The Mail explained:

“A knifeman who tried to kill two police officers while on licence from prison was jailed for life yesterday. John Onyenaychi, described as one of Britain’s most dangerous men, slashed PC Paul Madden’s throat with a Stanley knife in front of terrified commuters near a bus stop… PC Madden, 23, collapsed with wounds to his neck, throat and face…

During his rampage in Ealing, west London, Onyenaychi stabbed Police Community Support Officer Piotr Dolata twice in the head as he tried to help… Another PCSO, Steven Constable, was slashed twice but escaped serious injury because the thickness of his high-visibility jacket saved him…

Four days earlier, ONYENAYCHI STABBED A MAN FIVE TIMES, causing serious wounds… after a failed robbery. And two days before that, he stole a laptop computer from a man in Fulham, west London, after threatening him with a knife…

Onyenaychi, WHO HAS COMMITTED VIOLENT OFFENCES SINCE THE AGE OF 12, was OUT ON LICENCE from a two-year prison sentence FOR CAUSING DEATH BY DANGEROUS DRIVING WHILE HIGH ON DRUGS.

The attack on the three officers last December was the culmination of A SIX-DAY ‘CRIME SPREE OF LETHAL AND EXTREME VIOLENCE’, said Brian Altman QC, prosecuting. He told the jury that 6ft 2in Onyenaychi ‘is a highly dangerous individual who thinks nothing of carrying a knife on him, A TOOL OF HIS TRADE, AND USES IT AS A LETHAL WEAPON WHEN HE WISHES TO DO SO’.”

You know this cohesion, diversity and difference malarkey? I was just wondering, am I supposed to cohere with this chap? Because, really, he's just a bit too diverse and different for me. I'd feel uncomfortable having him hanging out round my place.

Now I know that makes me a racist, Fascist, bigot, Nazi but, hey, if he bursts into tears when I shut the door in his face, invite him round to your place! You know, to your leafy-suburbian, gated community? I'm sure you and your upper-crust Guardianista neighbours will be happy to cohere with him.

Won't you?

It's all gone quiet over there.

Well, apart from a bit of sneery, side-of-the-eyes, PC mumbling it has.