Man with learning difficulties bullied for TEN years collapses after confronting yobs in his garden

Daily Mail ^ | Last updated at 6:06 PM on 11th March 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Niuhuru]

A man with learning difficulties was 'tormented to death' after being bullied by yobs for more than a decade, neighbours claimed today. David Askew, 64, dropped dead after he tackled thugs who broke down his gate and invaded his garden. Neighbours said Mr Askew had been targeted before he was found dead at his home in Hattersley, Greater Manchester, last night. One neighbour said he had been 'tormented to death - like bear baiting'. Residents criticised police and officials for not supporting Mr Askew and his brother Brian and mother Rose, who was wheelchair-bound. Officers were called to the address last night after being told yobs were causing an 'annoyance'. When they arrived the youths had vanished but officers discovered Mr Askew collapsed in his back garden.

[swain_forkbeard]

Go deliver your sermon to someone who is interested.

Obviously, you have no idea what I think or believe, but you are more than willing to make some assumptions so that you have an excuse for going off on an angry rant.

I’m bored of this already.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

BTW.. What in samhell does Q’est qe c’est mean?

I may have gotten the exact spelling wrong...but it's French for "What is it?"

Kind of a joke, ya see.

[70times7]

“Yobs” is a British term for good for nothing punk hoodlums

So instead of POTUS, it should be YOTUS?

[DesertConservative]

Unmentioned in the article is that local authorities have charged the deceased with obstruction of criminal activity. Next week, a civil ceremony honoring the yobs with a Diversity in Life Award will be scheduled.

[GourmetDan]

"BTW.. What in samhell does Q’est qe c’est mean?"

An easy way to decipher any word or phrase you don't understand is to simply cut and paste it into Google. Works like a charm.

quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur

[reagan_fanatic]

It's too bad the outcome couldn't have ended like this.

[GourmetDan]

"An easy way to decipher any word or phrase you don't understand is to simply cut and paste it into Google. Works like a charm."

Even better...

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes

LOL!

[70times7]

Braccae tuae aperiuntur

(I like that site!)

[shibumi]

"(”yob” is british for hooblum or delinquent)"

Hooblum?

YOUblum.

He blum too!

[TalBlack]

“This sort of thing is enough to make anyone question as to whether or not God really does exist.

Ludicrous, utterly ludicrous. At best one might start to wonder where the decency of his neighbors was for all of that time.

[GourmetDan]

Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo equus.

[RoadTest]

England has switched from Christianity to agnosticism and Islam.

[70times7]

You are “ignosce-d”. Take a sugar cube and a carrot. ;>)