And sadly...

Okay, so I said I'd dismounted...I lied. On June 23rd this year, an ex-resident who at the time was being supported in another hostel in Brighton was murdered. This man, 41 years old was assaulted by 4 men (aged between 17 and 28) on the steps of his hostel, they beat him and stamped on him for no reason other than they were drunk, he died 2 days later. Fortunately the assault was captured on cctv, this was enhanced and the perpetrators are up for sentencing in October.

This man, Matt Heading, had somehow battled through years of physical medical hardships, alcoholism and drug addiction (which I cannot go further into) to be randomly and cowardly murdered. He will be missed and fondly remembered.

Our inspired and politically correct local paper on reporting this used the headline - "Addict dies after mystery attack", also stating in the article "Sussex Police knew Mr Heading through their street intervention team which clears addicts from public areas. " So delicately worded eh? Clears them away, hides them from view? An addict, not a man? Grrrr!!! But game on and respect to the author of this letter to the Argus about their reporting: http://archive.theargus.co.uk/2006/7/6/212411.html


BBC news article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5125334.stm