Mark Anthony Myrie (Buju Banton) fails to win Grammy Award :)
I was pleased to wake up this morning to see that Mark Anthony Myrie (AKA: Buju Banton) the disgusting vile homophobe failed to win the 2010 Grammy Award for best reggae album last night.
That said he should NEVER have been nominated, and those responsible for the nominations should be ashamed of themselves.
Man stabbed in Homophobic hate crime-Oxfordshire
A man walking with his partner in Banbury Road – junction of Portland Road went to the aid of a man lying down in front of a garden.
The man leapt up and hurled homophobic abuse at him. There was a brief struggle. The attacker ran off along Portland Street. He returned with a woman and stabbed the victim. The attack took place around 22:45 on Wednesday27th Jan 2010.
The 26-year-old victim is in a stable condition in the John Radcliffe Hospital.
A 21-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of GBH with intent. The 19-year-old woman was being held on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Det Ch Insp Colin Paine, of Oxford Priority Crime, said: “I believe that this is an isolated incident, and I would like to reassure the gay community that we are taking the comments made and this matter very seriously. “Any form of hate crime will not be tolerated in Oxford. “We have committed a team of detectives to investigate this matter and will work relentlessly until whoever has done this is brought to justice.” Joshua Hall, of the Oxford Homophobic Awareness Liaison Team (Halt) said: “This was a very extreme case but also very rare. Homophobia is usually verbal.” He added: “Reports of homophobia are relatively low, but that could either mean it isn’t happening or people are not reporting it. “I believe certainly a lot of people don’t come forward. “We will be liaising with those involved in this sad case.”
Currently 80% of homophobic crime in Oxfordshire goes unreported.
If you are able to help the police in any way PLEASE contact oxford CID via 0845 8505 111 or you may call crimes stoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111
For anyone living or visiting the area you may wish to check out the following site: HALT
Database curently being updated I am currently in the process of updating the database for police contacts. Sorry for any inconvenience caused – the some police forces (service) seem to change their web addresses for hate crime frequently for some unknown reason.
Apologies to all Sorry I’ve been ill recently plus family matters meant this site has not be looked after, or updated the way I intended.
