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UK: Lawyer for jihad killer says he was “confused by vehicles driving on different side of road than he was used to”

Jan 7, 2017 8:21 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A convicted murderer from Holland was able to walk through Britain’s porous borders without any checks and went on to attack two police officers with a claw-hammer.

Court documents in Holland said he was ‘inspired by Taliban movies in which beheadings were seen’…

Simon Blackford, defending, said there was a ‘long gap’ between the murder and the latest offences.

He said: ‘This offence was committed at a time of stress for my client. He was in a foreign country. He seems to have been vulnerable. He seems to have been hallucinating.

‘He was very confused by the vehicles driving on a different side of the road than he was used to.’

It is astonishing that Simon Blackford would offered the gelastic defense of his client when he was inspired by Taliban jihad videos and is by no means the first killer in the Netherlands or Britain to be inspired by the jihad doctrine. The likes of Jamshid Piruz have been freely moving in and out of Western countries for years. Take just one of innumerable examples: the Berlin jihadi Anis Amri, who was a known terror threat, yet authorities failed to detain or deport him before he ploughed a lorry into a Christmas market.

Also, research is showing that as many as 30,000 jihad fighters of the Islamic State could soon flood back into their “home countries,” ready to continue their jihad there.

Clearly there is a critical problem stemming from loose Western borders from a homeland security standpoint. Yet foes of border controls continue simply to charge their opponents with “racism.”

More on this story. “Why wasn’t foreign killer turned away at the UK border? Afghan who beheaded Dutch woman is allowed into Britain… where he assaulted a Gatwick staff member and two police officers with a HAMMER”, Daily Mail, by Ian Drury, January 5, 2017:

A convicted murderer from Holland was able to walk through Britain’s porous borders without any checks and went on to attack two police officers with a claw-hammer.

Afghan-born Jamshid Piruz was allowed to enter the UK unchallenged despite being sentenced to 12 years in jail for slaughtering his female tenant in cold-blood after watching a Taliban beheading video.

Fury erupted after it emerged that the jobless 34-year-old was the latest in a string of foreign criminals to commit horrific offences in Britain after exploiting EU free movement rules.

MPs condemned the shocking lack of checks on offenders from the EU which left gaping holes in UK border controls.

European countries have no obligation to alert the UK about convictions of murderers or sex offenders, meaning many are able to travel to the UK unhindered.

Outraged critics blasted the embattled Home Office for allowing the scandal, by failing to ensure the authorities were notified about EU convicts before they set foot on our shores.

Politicians have called for Home Secretary Amber Rudd to introduce a tougher US-style warning system to flag up whether any traveller has a conviction as they attempt to enter Britain.

Failure to control the country’s borders – and the number of serious criminals arriving here – was a major reason why millions of people voted for Britain to leave the Brussels bloc last June.

Piruz, who was a permanent Dutch resident, will be sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty to an appalling hammer attack on PC Jessica Chick and PC Stewart Young, of Sussex Police, on January 7 last year.

PC Young was taken to hospital with head injuries but later recovered.

The officers were later praised in Parliament by ministers for their bravery.

Piruz had been in the UK a matter of days when he launched the frenzied assault on the officers as they investigated a burglary in Crawley, West Sussex.

Days earlier he had assaulted a member of staff at Gatwick Airport – but was released onto the streets by local magistrates.

Piruz got into Britain despite being a convicted murderer in Holland. In June 2006, he murdered his Chinese female tenant by cutting off her head at a house in Almere, a city close to Amsterdam.

Court documents in Holland said he was ‘inspired by Taliban movies in which beheadings were seen’.

The files said he locked his victim in her room, snatched her mobile phone, then cut her throat.

They said he acted ‘intentionally and with premeditation’.

Rejecting his plea of insanity, Dutch judges concluded: ‘The killing of the victim was not the result of an instantaneous violent emotion, but a decision to do so.’

Piruz was convicted of murder in August 2007 and sentenced to 12 years’ behind bars.

He was released in 2014, after serving seven years. As a permanent Dutch resident, the killer was allowed to travel freely across the EU.

Last night WED Tory MP Henry Smith, who represents Crawley, said: ‘The country has got to have tougher border controls. Clearly, being a member of the EU did not protect us on this occasion.

‘A very dangerous individual was allowed to travel here without us having prior knowledge that he’d committed murder in the Netherlands.

‘It is staggering that someone could assault staff at Gatwick and then a couple of days later attack two police officers.

‘Why was the information that he was a violent offender not available to us from our EU partners?

‘This is an appalling example of the kind of people who are getting into the country undetected.’

Piruz pleaded guilty at Hove to two counts of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent, burglary and affray.

Two counts of attempted burglary and one of threatening with an offensive weapon will lie on file.

Simon Blackford, defending, said there was a ‘long gap’ between the murder and the latest offences.

He said: ‘This offence was committed at a time of stress for my client. He was in a foreign country. He seems to have been vulnerable. He seems to have been hallucinating.

‘He was very confused by the vehicles driving on a different side of the road than he was used to.’

When EU nationals arrive at the border, their passport details are checked against a ‘watchlist’ of suspected terrorists and foreign criminals compiled by the border agency.

But unless an offender is high profile, is known to have committed crimes in several countries, or is on the Interpol wanted list, the system is unlikely to be aware of their previous convictions – leaving a gaping hole in our border controls.

Except in the most extreme circumstances, Brussels does not force member states to share information on known criminals who might be planning to travel.

France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland flag up potential dangermen to the UK so they can be put on a watchlist and turned away at the port or airport.

But if countries do not warn the UK that a dangerous offender is on the way – and some do not even keep information of convictions for their own internal use – there is little we can do to stop them slipping through the net…..

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  1. Marty says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 8:30 am

    Exactly why did the Dutch sentence this brute to only 12 years & release him
    after seven ?
    Do they hate European society so much that they release psychopathic killers
    on the street to kill as many innocents as possible ?

    • Bill says

      Jan 7, 2017 at 9:55 am

      He was released early to cause more mayhem and it was done on purpose. The elites cannot achieve global socialist governance without first breaking down society at the national state and local level. It is easier to manage people who have been broken and subdued.

      That is the plan. The ruling elite are not stupid or blind. They are smart, calculating and acting purposefully.

      Until the citizens act the same way in defense of themselves and their society, the citizens will lose badly. They may have already lost.

      England is making one last grasp for salvation with Brexit. You can say you heard it here first, Brexit will never happen. Things will continue on as they are until people lost interest and hope that Brexit will actually happen. The EU globalists will prevail. Resistance will be squashed firmly.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 7, 2017 at 8:00 pm

        Actually, few felons serve their entire sentences in Europe–usually, they just serve half to two-thirds of the sentence.

        This is crazy–but the implication that Jamshid Piruz was singled out and released early so that he could wage violent Jihad is mistaken.

      • BC says

        Jan 8, 2017 at 4:15 am

        You really are into conspiracy theory or just barking mad.

        • Peggy says

          Jan 9, 2017 at 6:03 pm

          I think that he is making a lot of sense. Yes, criminals do get released early but then they are on parole and they have to report to law enforcement usually once a week but sometimes more than that if they committed a very serious crime.
          The fact that this murdered was released and not put on parole does speak volumes.
          I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility of what he claims.
          We already know that our governments are working against us so why is this so impossible to accept?

    • bernie says

      Jan 7, 2017 at 8:16 pm

      So he was confused by the different driving style in Britain. It sound like the American character Otto from the 80s movie “A Fish Called Wanda” (drives on right hand side in London)….SMASH! “Ass-hoooooooooollle!!”

      • Anne Smith says

        Jan 8, 2017 at 8:32 am

        More likely that he was hallucinating after taking mind bending drugs – especially if he had lived in Holland where they are legal and freely available.

      • Carolyne says

        Jan 8, 2017 at 10:50 am

        Yes. I often get momentarily confused with vehicles on the left side in England. It doesn’t inspire me to kill, though.

    • pandainc says

      Jan 8, 2017 at 7:55 pm

      Apparently so. Holland should have given him a penectomy and a very slow hanging. Whoops. That would be barbaric.

  2. ElderlyZionist says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 8:32 am

    “Make that man a sergeant. He knows how to defend a hopeless position.”

    – Duke of Wellington, 1815

  3. Crusades Were Right! says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 8:35 am

    “He was very confused by the vehicles driving on a different side of the road than he was used to”

    Move over insanity! Here comes road rage! Beep beep!

  4. Shmooviyet says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 9:05 am

    So predictable that legal and other defenders of these maniacs will grasp at the most LAME “mental confusion and stress” excuses for any type of savage behaviour. Can just hear the judge: ‘Yes, different driving rules certainly could trigger a desire to kill.’ Good Lord..

    How long have Euro countries had ‘no obligation’ to alert UK officials about convictions of killers and rapists? Then again, I imagine it wouldn’t make much difference with the current “let ’em all come” attitudes, anyway.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 7, 2017 at 8:25 pm

      Shmooviyet wrote:

      So predictable that legal and other defenders of these maniacs will grasp at the most LAME “mental confusion and stress” excuses for any type of savage behaviour.
      ……………………

      Yes–and this is especially ludicrous–at any given time, there are tens of thousands of Europeans, Americans, etc visiting the UK and apt to be periodically thrown by the different driving rules. One *might* see this being proffered as a possible mitigating factor in a fender-bender–not in a case of violent assault.

      And what his excuse in the Netherlands, where he *beheaded* his victim? They don’t drive on the left there…

      • Peggy says

        Jan 9, 2017 at 6:36 pm

        Maybe her head was leaning to the left at the time. Wouldn’t be surprised if they used something equally ridiculous as this as his defence during that trial.

  5. Angemon says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 10:36 am

    ‘He was very confused by the vehicles driving on a different side of the road than he was used to.’

    Bulls***. Plenty of people, whether Britons in other European countries or other Europeans in Britain, may get confused because cars go on the other side of the road, but how many attacked police officers because of it?

    • Salome says

      Jan 7, 2017 at 4:01 pm

      Indeed. I’ve been to places where they drive on the other side of the road and I’ve never conceived of any idea of attacking or killing anyone as a result.

      • bernie says

        Jan 7, 2017 at 8:23 pm

        I havent been to Britain but Ive been to Japan and they drive British style there. Also I couldnt read any of the signs except a few English ones. Abit inconvenient, but I didnt want to attack or kill anyone over it.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 7, 2017 at 8:27 pm

        Exactly.

  6. Lesley says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 10:43 am

    Oh, the poor monster was confused because traffic patterns were different. Poor, dear monster. Aw, let’s make sure he gets his halal monster food while he’s held on charges, and then we’ll make sure he gets jihad seeker allowance when he gets out so he can live comfortably with 3 or 4 oppressed wives and can produce more monsters while he regroups his energies in preparation for another monstrous act like sexually abusing British children, perhaps.

    Poor, dear little monster…

  7. Stan Lee says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 11:50 am

    This Muslim will repeat his murderous assault, he is a murder going somewhere to happen. The fact that there is no death sentence makes murder or intended murder just another occasion to him.
    He is being enabled by the damned silliest legal system ever contrived.

    Oh sure, the Euros can congratulate themselves on their “humanity,” but if a Euro court of enabling (law) gives him his walking papers as the Dutch court did, it will register with him, if it hasn’t already, that he can enjoy special status. Whereas in Afghanistan someone’s relative would exact revenge on this societal leech and his impulsive rampages would be forever ended.

    And, that would be poetic justice, because there is a serious contradiction going on in the EU; while Christianity has been almost deserted, the taking of a murderous criminal’s life is sort of “unChristian” to people who will proudly admit to doing away with death penalties for crimes such as this lunatic perpetrated in Holland, and nearly did so to officers of the law in UK.

    This begs the question whether a UK jury will let him walk to see if he doesn’t do it again. If there is any law more reckless with criminals than the law in America, it is the law in the EU.
    In case anyone hasn’t noticed, this kind of law comes at a terrible price to the innocent who foot the bill. while subject to the risks for lousy government immigration policies.

  8. somehistory says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    There is a saying about prosecutors trying a ham sandwich. The attorney for the defense is using bologna to argue for not guilty. Instead, he should have his client plead guilty by reason of islam and then the scum should be given a life sentence…he’s had three strikes at his life of fighting in the cause of satan.,he can finish up where future victims will be safe from him.

  9. Ginger says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 12:47 pm

    Update: Sentencing due Friday has been delayed because the hired interpreter went to the wrong court in the wrong town and left for home without telling anyone. h/t Daily Mail.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 7, 2017 at 8:38 pm

      Good grief…

      Thanks for that update, Ginger.

    • Anne Smith says

      Jan 8, 2017 at 8:34 am

      No doubt the tax payers are footing the bill for the interpreter. What a mess the country is in.

  10. Darryl Kerney says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 4:49 pm

    If so, why don’t all American and Canadian etc tourists go on murderous rampages in Britain because of the “confusion” caused by driving on the left instead of the right side of the road ? Why haven’t there been many cases over the decades ?
    Could it be anything to do with the stultifying effects of islam’s prohibition on THINKING that dulls the minds of its followers into compliance with the quran and rejection of anything not found within islamic texts ? Or have the centuries of inbreeding caused widespread mental deficiencies ? Or is it a case of victimology, the poor dear just got mixed up and now he’s being “persecuted” ?
    Or a combination of these, and other factors of islamic brainwashing, that produced a ruthless killer ?
    With all the evidence of islam’s tendency to create willing murderers and suicide jihadists, how can one not conclude that islam indeed does have everything to do with islamic terrorism ?

  11. mortimer says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 5:26 pm

    All countries of Europe urgently require the equivalent of Gitmo where they can permanently detain enemy combatants, ensuring they will never put the public at risk.

  12. Beagle says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 6:50 pm

    I know the feeling. When they put roundabouts on our downtown streets I had to go on a multistate bank robbery spree.

    /SMH

  13. gravenimage says

    Jan 7, 2017 at 7:16 pm

    UK: Lawyer for jihad killer says he was “confused by vehicles driving on different side of road than he was used to”
    ………………………

    Uh…right. And so, he had to attack the police with a hammer…

    My American husband was an exchange student at Oxford before we met. Being mildly dyslexic as well as used to drivers on the right, he was just particularly careful to check both ways crossing streets in England.

    Did he feel the urge to attack police officers with a claw hammer? Not so much…

    • somehistory says

      Jan 7, 2017 at 7:39 pm

      I traveled to D.C. once and, not knowing the blocks had five sides, got very confused when going around the block and not finding the place where I had begun. It took some time, looking for the place I needed to be, and some frustration until I figured it all out.

      I just decided I was never going back.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 7, 2017 at 8:44 pm

        Exactly, somehistory.

        In Atlanta, every other street seems to be named Peachtree, and visitors are always ending up on the wrong one.

        There are many places that are difficult to navigate in one way or another. This sometimes leads new residents to showing up late for appointments, but that is usually the extent of it.

  14. BC says

    Jan 8, 2017 at 4:17 am

    ‘He was very confused by the vehicles driving on a different side of the road than he was used to.’
    That has to be the most pathetic effort at a defence I ever saw. Put forward by a taxpayer paid for lawyer of course.
    Thanks goodness for Brexit.

  15. William Watson says

    Jan 8, 2017 at 4:21 am

    I hope PVV in Netherlands and UKIP in the UK win the elections when those come.

  16. Real McCoy says

    Jan 14, 2017 at 10:17 pm

    HOW WILL PAY TO THE FUCKIN LUNATIC LAWYER SIMON BLACKFORD? THE SOCIAL SECURITY, OR SAUDI ARABIA?.

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