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‘IN THE LINE OF FIRE’
BUS drivers have spoken out about rising violence on night routes following the savage murder of Richard Whelan, the 28-year-old man from Kentish Town who was stabbed in front of his girlfriend on the Number 43 bus on Friday.
The attack – the latest in a series of violent incidents on Camden buses in recent months – has prompted Transport for London (TfL) to place undercover police officers on routes to catch violent passengers.
Richard Whelan, who lived in Gaisford Street, was killed when he confronted a fellow passenger who had been throwing chips at him and his girlfriend. Police say he was stabbed up to eight times and the murderer has yet to be caught.
Now a special team of law enforcers are travelling through the city at night to keep a watch on passengers – and stop fights on double-deckers.
Now a special team of law enforcers are travelling through the city at night to keep a watch on passengers – and stop fights on double-deckers.
Witnesses hit out at ‘Taser’ police
A SUSPECTED gunman who was subdued with a Taser gun and arrested by heavily armed police in the centre of busy Camden Town was released with a caution, police said this week.
The man, in his 50s, has not been named but was seen by hundreds of startled onlookers as he was chased down Camden High Street and apprehended on July 20, just a day before police shot Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Underground station.
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