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Murder of Richard Everitt
51°31′56″N 0°07′43″W / 51.532192°N 0.128529°W
Richard Norman Everitt (6 December 1978 – 13 August 1994) was a white 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in London, England. Everitt lived in Somers Town, which had been the site of ethnic tensions. He was murdered by a gang of British Bangladeshis who were seeking revenge against another white boy. Everitt did not provoke the attack and had no history of anti-social behaviour.
Badrul Miah, Showat Akbar, and Abdul Hai were tried in 1995. Miah was given a life sentence, with a minimum term of 12 years. Akbar was sentenced to three years in custody for violent disorder. Hai was acquitted by the jury on the direction of the trial judge, at the close of the prosecution case.
Somers Town, in the London Borough of Camden, was experiencing urban decay in the early 1990s. Many of its white families had been moved from the social housing there onto newer estates, and those who remained lived in poverty and unemployment, and felt in conflict with Bengalis. Bengalis were living in the neighbourhood's worst housing, with problems of overcrowding due to their larger families.
White youths and Bengali youths attended different youth clubs, and interracial relationships were shunned. Hate crimes occurred in the area, with statistics showing that they were predominantly against Bengalis; white locals claimed that these statistics reflected phony or exaggerated reports filed by Bengalis to gain preferential access to housing. Bengalis said that their complaints were going unheard.
Everitt attended South Camden Community School, where there were ethnic tensions, although he was not involved in them. His mother had previously complained when he was allegedly threatened with a knife by an Asian pupil.
Rosemary Harris, an anthropologist from nearby University College London, researched Somers Town's ethnic unrest in the early 1990s. She documented gangs of white, black and Asian origin, and concluded that the unrest was not caused by external political extremists but rather by the playground rivalries of teenagers. She observed a discussion between Everitt's parents and a teacher after he was attacked by a Bangladeshi group, weeks before his murder occurred. Harris said that Camden Council were uninterested in the research when it emerged that the unrest was not solely due to white racism, and said that school staff were fearful of disciplining Bangladeshis.
A local Asian police officer said that the police were hesitant to see Somers Town's gang problem as race-related, and preferred to erroneously consider it motivated by rivalry between different estates.
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Murder of Richard Everitt
51°31′56″N 0°07′43″W / 51.532192°N 0.128529°W
Richard Norman Everitt (6 December 1978 – 13 August 1994) was a white 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in London, England. Everitt lived in Somers Town, which had been the site of ethnic tensions. He was murdered by a gang of British Bangladeshis who were seeking revenge against another white boy. Everitt did not provoke the attack and had no history of anti-social behaviour.
Badrul Miah, Showat Akbar, and Abdul Hai were tried in 1995. Miah was given a life sentence, with a minimum term of 12 years. Akbar was sentenced to three years in custody for violent disorder. Hai was acquitted by the jury on the direction of the trial judge, at the close of the prosecution case.
Somers Town, in the London Borough of Camden, was experiencing urban decay in the early 1990s. Many of its white families had been moved from the social housing there onto newer estates, and those who remained lived in poverty and unemployment, and felt in conflict with Bengalis. Bengalis were living in the neighbourhood's worst housing, with problems of overcrowding due to their larger families.
White youths and Bengali youths attended different youth clubs, and interracial relationships were shunned. Hate crimes occurred in the area, with statistics showing that they were predominantly against Bengalis; white locals claimed that these statistics reflected phony or exaggerated reports filed by Bengalis to gain preferential access to housing. Bengalis said that their complaints were going unheard.
Everitt attended South Camden Community School, where there were ethnic tensions, although he was not involved in them. His mother had previously complained when he was allegedly threatened with a knife by an Asian pupil.
Rosemary Harris, an anthropologist from nearby University College London, researched Somers Town's ethnic unrest in the early 1990s. She documented gangs of white, black and Asian origin, and concluded that the unrest was not caused by external political extremists but rather by the playground rivalries of teenagers. She observed a discussion between Everitt's parents and a teacher after he was attacked by a Bangladeshi group, weeks before his murder occurred. Harris said that Camden Council were uninterested in the research when it emerged that the unrest was not solely due to white racism, and said that school staff were fearful of disciplining Bangladeshis.
A local Asian police officer said that the police were hesitant to see Somers Town's gang problem as race-related, and preferred to erroneously consider it motivated by rivalry between different estates.