Washington, August 12: The number of people killed during massive unrests across England has climbed as a 68-year-old retired man died in hospital on Thursday night.
Richard Mannington Bowes, who went in a coma after being attacked by an angry crowd in Ealing during Monday’s violence, died late Thursday night, prompting detectives to launch a murder inquiry.
Detective Chief Inspector John McFarlane of the Homicide and Serious Crime Command said, “This was a brutal incident that resulted in the senseless killing of an innocent man.
“I still need the assistance of the community who may have witnessed the attack on Richard to come forward and provide information or images they may have recorded on mobile devices.”
His death came only after the suspicious death of three Muslim men that were run down by a car when trying to protect their fellow community members during the persisting unrest in Birmingham, and the murder of a 26-year-old man that was shot in a car in Croydon.
Over 1,500 people have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police in the crisis-hit cities of England, and over 500 were charged with public offences.
In an effort to show off his iron fist to protesters, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted that “the fight back has begun” to restore law and order on all the streets.
He added that 16,000 officers would remain in London streets through the weekend and that “whatever resources the police need, they will get.” Cameron also said, “Whatever tactics the police feel they need to employ, they have legal backing to do it.”
The British official promised to arrest everyone related to the recent violence in the country, claiming, “We are making technology work for us, by capturing the images of the perpetrators on CCTV – so even if they haven’t yet been arrested, their faces are known and they will not escape the law.
“No phony human rights concerns about publishing photographs will get in the way of bringing these criminals to justice,” he said.
—-Agencies