Posted on 09/17/2009 10:02:31 AM PDT by vimto
A despairing mother killed herself and her disabled daughter by setting her car on fire after enduring a relentless campaign of abuse from a gang of youths.
Unable to cope with the torment Fiona Pilkington, 38, drove with 18-year-old daughter Francecca Hardwick to a lay-by with a 10-litre can of petrol.
The single mother then doused old clothes in the back of the blue Austin Maestro before setting light to it with her daughter and herself still inside.
It is thought Mrs Pilkington, who also had a son, used her daughter's pet rabbit to ensure she would not try and get out of the vehicle.
Relatives today told an inquest that they believe she decided to kill her daughter out of fear that nobody else would be able to cope with her after her suicide.
The abuse started when the family moved into the house on Bardon Road in Barwell, Leicestershire, but it escalated after her severely dyslexic son, Anthony Hardwick, now 19, fell out with a friend who lived on the street.
The unnamed boy would taunt them at the front of their house by shouting: “We can do anything we like and you can’t do anything about it.”
Members of the gang would throw abuse at the family, pelt the house with stones, flour and eggs and would urinate on their property, The week before she died Mrs Pilkington taped up her letterbox to prevent the gang from pushing fireworks through it.
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i no longer believe any british headlines.
OMG....
meanwhile the cops are watching the cameras and doing nothing
...cryptic? .....I don’t quite understand...?
“We can do anything we like and you can’t do anything about it.”
How have we got here?
Real misery is the stuff of everyday life that don’t need DNA profiles to sort out.
Nothing to see here.... move along.
What a terrible story. RIP.
Life imitates “A Clockwork Orange.”
LET THESE POOR PEOPLE HAVE GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!! DAMNED STATISTS!!!!
Good Lord.
I think it’s a safe bet there were some serious mental issues at work as well.
How terrible.
and they trash our country? amazing.. at least our citizens are allowed to defend ourselves...at least our police are not impotent little poofs with no real weapons..
Thats true. She called the cops I bet and the person on the phone probably tried to talk her out of filing a police report. They might even have to send a patrol car out there, couldn't be bothered though
The cops don’t like the paperwork. They don’t want an unsolved crime on their logs. Makes them look bad.
“How have we got here?”
There must be invisible ink in my post because I didn’t say anything about ‘here’ wherever ‘here’ is.
I literally cannot wrap my brain around this...
On the other hand, had Fiona Pilkington put one plastic bottle in her regular trash bin, the police would have been on it the very next day!
May she be forgiven...
It seems as if the British police no longer even pretend to do their jobs.
I see this as an unspeakable tragedy. What the mother done was wrong but the pressure to flip her mind to do it must have been appalling.
The thing is, the liberals have told the police to look out for minority causes and taken away their power to stop gangs terrorizing people. The police are eunuchs this. If the kids had called her a lesbian it would have had much better chance of being actioned. Had she been a Muslim it would have been a hate crime.
Isaiah chapter 8: 20,21
Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
and clever in their own sight.
When ordinary folk feel cut adrift from the community with no recourse to law and order the worst can and will happen.
We have no sense of morality only political correctness.
When I was a kid the police would have seen me, and given me a clip, then my parents who would have given me another clip. The family would still be alive.
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