The coverage of the murder of Tom ap Rhys Pryce (16 Jan) and
the general violent crime problem in the area omitted to
address the most important fact: the killers were black and
the victim was white.

Had the race of attacker and victim been reversed this would
have been treated as racist crime by the police and the
media. Here such motivation goes unmentioned, despite th fact
that there is good particular reason to believe there was a
racist element. That is so because the person mugged by the
two culprits just before Pryce's murder - an Asian - was
simply allowed to hand over valuables without assault, while
Pryce handed over his valuables yet was killed.

To this fact may be added the frequency of black attacks on
white victims. No official figures exist, although we have
Sir Ian Blair's statement when an Asst Commissioner, that
most muggings were committed by blacks. Moreover, press
coverage of such crimes, including your own, is
overwhelmingly of black attacks on whites. If the attacks are
not racially motivated why are so many whites targetted?
Ditto with gang rapes by blacks which are, judged by
newspaper reports, overwhelmingly committed against white
women.