some people really love dying there
another day another murder on the milford towers estate
it appears that the unwritten policy of containment that has been adopted by the police & council over recent years in relation to milford towers has filtered through into the press with this incident not even warranting a separate story to itself in either of the local rags and indeed having to share a news story in the news shopper about a free map being given away in woolwich libraries
July 4th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Hi Ross, good to see your still here
I was shocked to hear about this, I found out from transpontines blog, and i have been reading local papers and online. I also pass milford towers everyday and you would never have know that it happened.
July 5th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
i note that the incident has now been given a story in it’s own right, however the initial decision to treat the story as a ‘news in brief’ story alongside such heady topics as what the police get up to on facebook and news of the free map being given away at woolwich libraries say a lot about the attitude to crime in deprived areas (goes along with the ‘just some kids with guns’ approach of the police there as well)
for years the residents association have been asking for funds to put in place proper cctv security cameras around the estate but have been told there was no money to do this despite the prevailing high incidents of crime and the various murders that have occurred there over that time. Just a pity that a few quid from the £10m that was set aside to “improve the environment and housing in a predominantly private sector area” in rushey green ward couldn’t have been used for that - plenty of money seems to have been found to improve the frontages of privately owned housing in the streets surrounding milford towers, but somehow none of those funds found their way into the places where it was undoubtedly needed the most, and why indeed would it when to do so would disrupt the police/council policy of containment
July 13th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
They are also giving money to shops in catford to do up the signsto a better standard. priorities.