There can't be many people in the country who can't have been moved by the terrible racist murder of Anthony Walker, 18, in Liverpool. The story was on virtually every newspaper front cover. Anthony's murder and the trial was the lead story on all the news channels. The judge at the trial of his murderers handed out long sentences, rightly so.
So onto the murder of Christopher Yates (see pic above). Who? you might ask. Well Christopher, like Anthony, was walking a female friend to a bus stop late at night. Like Anthony he was attacked for the colour of his skin - that's where the similarities end. Christopher's muder didn't make the national news channels and only gained a couple of column inches in some newspapers. His attackers Sajid Zulfiqar, Zahisd Bashir and Imran Maqsood in a ferocious attack knocked him to the ground and kicked and stamped on him till he was dead. Every single bone in his face was shattered. Afterwards Zulfiqar boasted in Urdu "We killed the white boy, that will teach a white man to stick his nose in Paki business". The judge at the trial at the Old Bailey decided that Mr Yates's murderers had not been motivated by racial hatred, which allowed them to received much lower sentences. The three of them got 15 years each - the minimum tariff for murder. After time off for good behaviour they will be walking the streets again in 6-7 years.
The question of anti-white racism makes the political class uncomfortable, but it is a very real phenomenon but police, judges and politicians don't want to accept this. Results from the 2002-03 British Crime Survey show that less than 1 per cent of white people had experienced a crime that they thought was racially motivated. This compares with 2 per cent for the black community and 3 per cent among Asian groups. But 1 per cent of whites amounts to a substantial number of people and is a growing problem. Unless we can deal with racism - whoever perpetrates it, equally, we are heading for big trouble.
The annual Springbourne Ladies Knitting Circle celebrated at Harry Ramsdens in Bournemouth for their Christmas Party. Leading members Mr. Cockerel, Beast, Mitch, Frankie Bum-boy, Keith and myself partied hard to the wonderful Elvis impersonater from Leeds. Think his name was Ray Wood - apparently Europe's leading Elvis double (aren't they all?). He looked like something from the Munsters and was obviously taking the look from Elvis's last week on earth.
He murdered and mumbled his way through hit after hit of Elvis numbers. Unfortunately, our table was right in front of the stage and his swivelling hips and exposed paunch almost put me off my haddock - it was so tacky it was great. 
