Bristol suitcase bodies case being 'treated as a hate crime'

“They said there was no evidence of it being a homophobic crime.”
A man has been charged with two counts of murder and the case is "being treated as a hate crime" but police suggest it's "not a homophobic crime," says chief reporter at Bristol Live Tristan Cork.
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[@missj.d9187]

62 and 71 years of age how terribly sad for their loved ones.

[@BowserLucaTheThird]

You'll see

[@GeorgieFlintlock]

@@missj.d9187 Grinder merchants.

[@user-mt4vs6uj2x]

Chopped up in a suit case , " a hate crime " surely not 🤔

[@dark1810]

its different form those murders and dismemberments by people who really like you and think your great

[@user-fq2ee7ki8g]

Surely

[@Madonnalitta1]

​@@dark1810right! 😂

[@howardg7162]

I know it's Ridiculous

[@caroledixon1893]

Does not make sense when a witness gave sky news detail that he was with a white woman and white man and that he stated my boss is a bad man he will do things to you…… I don’t understand

[@GeorgieFlintlock]

What I don't understand is why police aren't looking for anybody else in connection with this incident. According to the witness three people are involved already, from his account.

[@marky88100]

Who is the other guy and woman who helped put the suitcases there is my question

[@WordOnTheStreet_365]

PRECISELY. FEELS VERY WELL 'ORCHESTRATED'???? THE GUY INTERVIEWED WHO SAID HE AND HIS WIFE 'ENCOUNTERED' ALL 3 OF THEM, GAVE NO MENTION WHATSOEVER TO "NERVES" OR "NERVOUSNESS" ON THE PART OF ANY OF THE 3???? WHICH SUGGESTS 'PROFESSIONALS' WHO HAVE DONE THIS TYPE OF THING BEFORE?????

[@nameunavailable-gp3ot]

​@@WordOnTheStreet_365ud be surprised how many ppl can nonchalantly lie and pretend, everyone's an actor they just don't know it

[@highachiemytale6743]

What lol what evidence are you reading lol what other people lol are involved it was just him

[@LilyGazou]

@@highachiemytale6743there is an interview with a man who saw them. It’s on KZbin.

[@a.s3523]

​@highachiemytale6743 Witness said the man moved the suitcases with the help of a white man & white woman. He also said that he & his wife agreed that the picture of the wanted man was not the same man they witnessed the night before.

[@simmysimmy3748]

Are they saying they were murdered because the perpetrator Hated them?

[@wecandothiswarriors]

And also hated gay folk

[@Linz0440]

No.

[@Allegra11]

I could be wrong but I think they were murdered because they were gay and if that is the sole or main reason then it's classified as a hate crime

[@hollymiranda0826]

Oh my. 🤦🏻‍♀️ A “hate crime” is a crime committed because of bias towards another for such reasons as their race, sexuality, & so on. (race & sexuality being the most common). With that said, the fact these 2 men were homosexual, makes me believe that is the reason for their murders.

[@fillipo1972]

Hate crime eh? Well i never

[@richardbertrand9939]

Whys it classed as a hate crime if they dont think its homophobic?

[@BarbaraGrosvenor]

Is this another result of the wonderful diversity we have to put up with in our country

[@BethellAthletico]

What on earth has this got to do with your racism?

[@JP-lk2qs]

⁠your statement is racist

[@JP-lk2qs]

There are different types of racism

[@royrogers1010001]

@@BethellAthleticoNothing racist was stated within that comment, please educate yourself.

[@WordOnTheStreet_365]

Mmmmm..... DO YOU THINK PERHAPS IF THEY PUT ALL 'PEOPLE OF CLOUR' IN PRISON THAT ALL THESE CRIMES WOULD STOP????? OH, NO! SORRY. THEY ALREADY TRIED THAT!!!! COULD THIS THEN BE WHY THEY ARE NOW, SEEMINGLY, 'IMPORTING' MANY MORE, POTENTIAL, "BLACK" SCAPEGOATS????? AND.... WHO ARE THE PEOPLE BEHIND ALL THE FOLLOWING CRIMES, THEN??? AS PRESENTED AT: GARY / GARYTHETRUTHSETSUSFREE (KZbin and RUMBLE), AND BANAMAN (KZbin), AND ALL OTHER SOCIAL 'AUDITORS' AND 'CITIZEN JOURNALIST' CHANNELS AND PLATFORMS?????

[@Martial-Mat]

I'm in favour of trying to help those fleeing oppression in other countries, but it feels as though the immigrant community is disproportionately connected with such heinous crimes. Bombs at Ariane Grande concerts, innocent police attacked, knife crime, children sacrificed because they are "possessed," etc. I don't know if I'm just overly sensitive to skin colour in these situations, but it seems that people from certain cultural backgrounds bring their worst attitudes with them.

[@charliecatesby3346]

The sad reality is that we logically have to stop saving those in real danger in order to save those already in Britain. That being said technically nobody other than people from France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland and The Faroe Islands can meet the United Nations criteria for being a Refugee. The UN determines that someone is only a refugee until they reach the nearest safe place to them, with this in mind I don't think there is even an argument to be made as to whether we are saving these people, they are here purely for economic reasons. Britain is an Island in the far North West of Europe, it is the last place you would find millions of Refugees fleeing war in Africa and The Middle East.

[@wecandothiswarriors]

And WE should be able to discuss this instead of being shouted down by ignorant loons

[@uniquevideosUk]

It's happening far to often to ignore, If you are realistic to the obvious you are labelled as some awful person.

[@FutureKnut]

People tend to filter out information that doesn't reinforce their existing beliefs. It's called Confirmation Bias.

[@JAMAICADOCK]

Immigration always comes with problems, Italian Americans brought the Mafia to the US/ Irish immigration brought the IRA/ Jewish immigration brought white slavery etc etc but the economic pluses generally outweigh the minuses. When people watch the Olympics or the Premier League, they don't tend to say immigration is a bad thing, When people are treated by African doctors and nurses, they don't complain too much. Now you can live in a country without immigrants like Hungary or Poland but they're hardly setting the world alight economically or culturally. In fact they have massive emigration problems. Ironically enough, they move to the countries with mass immigration.

[@sovereignjoe5730]

Wasn't there a blonde woman involved as well?

[@Elsamoreira503]

We can only talk about others, white colour blind 😂😂

[@GeorgieFlintlock]

And one other guy at least. The eyewitness told the police this that's why I don't understand why these bozos are okay with the police saying we are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident. Something not right here.

[@stevedavis5699]

Yes, I found that odd , no mention of the woman with blonde hair and pig tail, that the witness and his wife presumed was the taxi driver, yet that police officer said they were talking to a male taxi driver 🤔

[@MZig-rw7su]

Isn't Government Enforced multi cultural ism a good idea....ooh time to look away again and pretend everything is fine.

[@stephenhardwick4101]

You knew full well I was a snake before you took me in.

[@vermilliongecko]

Don't be using Northern Soul records to justify racism.

[@wecandothiswarriors]

Yep

[@jayjay-71]

Ooooooo AL WILSON lyrics nicelydone, 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 Great song...

[@GeorgieFlintlock]

That's how the Bible begins...

[@IM-lr6vz]

​@GeorgieFlintlock your Bible not have Genesis 1 & 2?

[@mycatspethooman5590]

Not homophobic? Really......

[@Dooguk]

I'm going to guess that this was a house split into bedsits. The three of them lived there and they had a dispute. But you jump to conclusions, even though the police have said otherwise

[@martinemjt]

the perp might also be gay!

[@davidbarlow350]

Did he go all the way to Bristol to dump the bodies so Sadiq Khan wouldn't get it added to his crime statistics? Seems a very strange thing to do.

[@yuelingchu4361]

😂 sorry, inappropriate laughing

[@hawky2k215]

I do feel bad for UK can never removed Khan from power! He is the main reason UK is in a huge mess!

[@maxhobby1701]

Oh hes a foreigner !!!! who would have guessed it

[@DavidThomas-fb8bq]

So only foreigners commit crimes?

[@WordOnTheStreet_365]

YAWN. STRETCH. YEP! IT'S THAT SAME OLD WORN-OUT, BORING NARRATIVE. FORTUNATELY, MOST OF THE WORLD IS NOW AWAKE, AND AWARE.... JUST WAITING FOR THE REMAINING FEW TO WAKE UP!!!

[@Mina.15]

Its a white and male too

[@jadebel7006]

@WordOnTheStreet_365 oh so what he did was worst than Lucy letby your saying?

[@biffalump]

Guess we have to ban the use of suitcases now

[@davidhall7648]

Hate crime? No S#!t Sherlock 🤣🤣🤣

[@CERELESS]

hate crime not homophobic because the perpetrator is black foreign

[@Dooguk]

Or not homophobic because it wasn't.

[@wecandothiswarriors]

It was a hate crime carried out by a black foreign national. FACT

[@rolandsmith2141]

​@@Doogukand your part of the problem

[@uniquevideosUk]

​@@Dooguk It's sounds like it happened to me.

[@Dooguk]

@@rolandsmith2141 Police say it's not homophobic and this poster says, without proof it was. What problem do you speak of?

[@outlawJosieFox]

We all knew he couldn't be British; he did not know that Bristol Suspension Bridge is covered in CCTV cameras !?!? Doh

[@likhwadube5937]

What areas of Britain are not covered by CCTV? Unless you are in your house you are on cctv pretty much all the time, save for some country paths.

[@WordOnTheStreet_365]

OR, PERHAPS HE DID??????? THERE WERE, ALLEGEDLY, 3 OF THEM 'LUGGING' AND 'DRIVING' AND 'TRANSPORTING'.....????? IS THE 'BLONDE FEMALE' ALSO "NOT BRITISH" WITH 'NOT A CLUE'!!!!!!!?????

[@nameunavailable-gp3ot]

​@@likhwadube5937 every single residential zone I've ever passed through ?

[@nameunavailable-gp3ot]

​@@likhwadube5937 didn't the gov get blocked last decade attempting to put up cctv by flats ? Xd only thing ppl care about is business and public areas due to the necessity

[@likhwadube5937]

@@nameunavailable-gp3ot door bell cameras everywhere now.

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

Usual suspect.

[@user-hd8fj2mb5p]

@HaggisMuncher-69-420: Expand on that, oh enlightened one.

[@natpalazzo8833]

@@user-hd8fj2mb5p No, he doesn't need to. If you don't get it then it's your problem.

[@85catnip]

@@natpalazzo8833 he wasn't asking you. his comment was totally original... not. unless he actually had meaning behind it.

[@85catnip]

so original. just posted for likes? thought so.

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

@@user-hd8fj2mb5p You absolutely know what I mean and that's why you're triggered and asking me to expand. Don't play silly games.

[@timelord52]

Homophobic attack in my humble opinion.

[@Dooguk]

Why?

[@Dan-ze4qz]

Muslim

[@joecotter6803]

Clairvoyant.

[@icilmaa]

@@Dan-ze4qz If he's Colombian he's more likely to have been brought up as a Catholic.

[@dragoneyeblaze5804]

Nice one detective.

[@1971bigdaddycain]

Did i miss the memo on it becoming illegal to express a human emotion?

[@jadebel7006]

Did I miss the part where u convinced yourself that your equal n that ur opinion matters? Hahaha 😂

[@Scitch-et4vk]

Diversity

[@ritamarshall2644]

How did he get the bodies from London to Bristol? It seems very weird that he’d take such a risk.

[@littlelioness4278]

What a ridiculous statement

[@wecandothiswarriors]

So do not comment then if your comment is so ridiculous. Simples

[@wecandothiswarriors]

Why did she say maaaaan and not man?

[@FriendshipStreetz]

lol funny

[@Mina.15]

Where is that white woman ?

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

The police person acts rather robotically.

[@truckerfromreno]

Police have their best they/thems on the case.

[@baldyoldfart5828]

Judging by the bullsh*t that normally comes from this channel I'm surprised you haven't blamed Russia

[@ConradAinger]

💯😆

[@ziggurat-builder8755]

grow up

[@navnitmistry8970]

Or Trump

[@carcher3279]

💯🤣👍🏿

[@random_Person347]

Can anyone please explain to me how differently the crime would be treated if it wasn't "treated as a hate crime"?

[@Linz0440]

Go and read what Hate Crime means.

[@Anglo-Saxonforever]

He was obviously after their money

[@OoohAaah6603]

His defence will be that the victim's called him the N word

[@colinstevens6837]

and mental health

[@OoohAaah6603]

@@colinstevens6837 yeah a mental health problem bought on by being called the N word and his suffering under Whyte privilege..... wouldn't be surprised if he gets awarded damages and gets given the victims house as reparations.

[@albert7311]

@@colinstevens6837 The stress of designing all those skyscrapers for the progressive utopia

[@callumlawrence9702]

Two old white blokes that took him on holiday and looked after him called him a n-word great defense Jesus Christ...

[@colinstevens6837]

@@albert7311 a colombian that doesnt speak english in a flat with a couple of old age poofs something isnt adding up

[@binlondon9685]

Totally despicable.

[@Lucky13Ravens]

Gang activity. But also proof 'Hate Crime' just means 'we need an excuse to give you a sentence beyond what your crime allows.'

[@ShallowDepression]

Just a reminder that hate speech doesn't exist.

[@stirlingmoss4621]

unless certain new arrivals are identified as criminals

[@caroledixon1893]

Neither does racism I’ve got a blah dog

[@GeorgieFlintlock]

​@@caroledixon1893 You're right, it doesn't. Creating a label such as that creates a division that wasn't really there to begin with. Also you're right...animals such as dogs and birds etc don't have differenf races within their species.. they're all just one and the same.

[@stuhector3511]

Makes no sense at all.

[@user-hd8fj2mb5p]

Why has my reply vanished?

[@markfrank3307]

Surely not!

[@Dooguk]

It depends on what you wrote.

[@kevinrobb86]

because you are in the UK

[@Dooguk]

@@kevinrobb86 That's got nothing to do with it.

[@iap-ug3oy]

Because there is no thing as free speech anymore in this country…

[@JamesPCroad]

“Man” Code for we all know what…

[@sirchadiusmaximusiii]

Ah yes, hate crimes as opposed to love crimes.

[@johnd6913]

Clearly great taste showing such respect for Isambard Kingdom Brunel

[@iap-ug3oy]

What a mess our country is in …..and still they come across the channel….And this officer is ……what ,,,,? male ,female ? Or other ?

[@elijahhaydes4075]

who cares

[@uniquevideosUk]

​@@elijahhaydes4075 You do to comment.

[@prestcoldandy910]

The police are full of these women with little boys hair cuts

[@Beesa10]

Female.

[@GeorgieFlintlock]

​@@Beesa10 I'm not so sure...there's something very male esque about it.

[@user-bo7ls6ju1o]

She is the cop in charge ???

[@Anglo-Saxonforever]

No cops are in charge, the Muslims are.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Could be a they/them.

[@Joshlin100]

Where was the murderer found? Was it in Bristol when he was arrested?

[@BobSmith-vo9hv]

I arrived well after dark. A smart woman opened the door. "I couldn't afford a bottle of wine," I said, "so I've drawn one on a piece of cardboard." I had prepared for the party by eating half a jar of instant coffee I'd found in the bins at Sainsbury's.

[@LostwaveObsession]

Susie and a thin man found me in the park.

[@mitter2425]

Sadly the suitcases, contained human remains .........sadly .....like its the norm. He's wearing Black, black,

[@specialse]

Was this a couple trying to help out an asylum seeker ? And why is this officer wearing only a left earing whilst in uniform suggesting sexual preference ?

[@oldvale3686]

Or he’s a pirate.

[@redbeard3923]

😅😅😅😅​@@oldvale3686

[@vermilliongecko]

The notion that earrings in certain ears denotes one's sexuality is about 40 years out of date.

[@apebass2215]

​@@vermilliongecko and yet the notion that someone's genitalia doesn't determine their sex is currently very trendy.

[@specialse]

@@vermilliongecko No they currently still do this with the letters and numbers people .....Google it if required . just fell it shouldnt be worn with a public servant uniform .

[@russcooke5671]

What is he not saying it was a forenher.

[@carolcarr7867]

I wonder why they really took the photo down. I haven't seen it. I just seen it.

[@wecandothiswarriors]

So a homophobic hate crime then.. Get Douglas Murray onto it..

[@yuelingchu4361]

I'm confused that they said it wasn't homophobic, but still a hate crime. Because the victims were white? 🤷‍♀️

[@Loobie531]

Exactly , they are probably hiding it to prevent uproar, nothing to see here with the types and clashes of cultures and Ideologies that come from abroad.🙄

[@martinemjt]

black man in black!? with gold earing.

[@magnus9701]

he is 34 could he have seen the itv prog

[@aaronsmith4940]

Anouther diversity hire I see

[@Arthur-b9b]

No more suitcase

[@Uh_huh]

So they werent murdered?

[@veratruthe2703]

Not enough people care about this humongous issue, I guess if there not in your area- why would you? You know this is peoples attitude

[@firmbutton6485]

Religion of peace?

[@Mychannel67-wh4tc]

He’s from a Catholic country 😂 the most violent country in the world is the US a Christian country allegedly

[@adamc9058]

“A hate crime”, what if the murderer is gay too 🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🙌🏻

[@user-rd8ow4sn8v]

“A man”

[@beansandmacaroni8758]

god he is insufferable

[@GeorgieFlintlock]

The copper?

[@Scitch-et4vk]

Multiculturalism

[@dulcettonezzz8229]

I blame Farage. And Trump

[@barneyrubble8590]

Don't forget Brexit 😂

[@aurockscastillo5460]

@@barneyrubble8590if it wasn’t for brexit he would be busy doing his suitcase business in France

[@stirlingmoss4621]

No true Brit does this sort of thing.

[@beverlybradley5485]

Dennis Neilson, Fred West two British men and White so can’t say this never happens with British men.

[@stirlingmoss4621]

@@beverlybradley5485 suitcases !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@vortigern3910]

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@Djodosncb]

She looks like my boyfriend when i was 16 in 1985 😂 she still looks like him now hehehe for real he was a handsome guy 😂

[@Vespa123]

what a ridiculous hair cut. shes defo one of thems

[@johnnybravo7490]

Since when does billy joel Armstrong work for the police? 😂