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Two people have been arrested in connection with the death of a man who was found with serious head injuries in an alleyway. The 55-year-old was discovered near the Royal Court Hotel in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on Wednesday night.
He ...died the next day. A 16-year-old boy and a 22-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are being questioned.
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I am so upset by this story, of yet another senseless, violent death. I remember a similar story last year .. a man attacked in the town and left for dead. Also of the murder of a woman in the town 3 years ago: A 36-year-old man reversed his Land Rover over his girlfriend's head after an argument in a Lowestoft pub (a notorious dive of a place, in the old red-light area). Her body was found several days later in the boot of the car.
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I lived on this road until 5 months ago. It is notorious for rough drinkers and trouble. The Royal Court Hotel is indicative of the area, and is described online as "a dosshouse", "vile", "filthy"
It is in the poorest part of a poor town, full of B&Bs which no longer house holidaymakers, but homeless people on benefits.
There has been an influx of immigrants (from other parts of the UK as well as other countries) to the town in recent years, on benefits or very low agri wages, and there is a generation of people who have never worked, adding to the feeling of desolation and uselessness of the place (there are no big employers any more (Sanyo, Birds Eye); factories have closed down; our shipbuilding and fishing industries have disappeared).
I was frequently woken at night by drunken youths screaming, shouting and banging on doors, breaking windows. Twice my own door was nearly kicked in at 2am, by drunken young men, turned out from the local nightclub. I rang the police, who didn't come. There were prostitutes plying their trade in the flat upstairs.
I had to live there because I was on benefits myself, and could not afford anything better. I am so grateful that I met Mr Sheds and was able to move to a safer place (although we still have our windows banged by drunk youths).
It used to be a cr@ppy seaside town when I was a teenager - now it is a depressing and dangerous place. It's days like these that I despair for this country.
He ...died the next day. A 16-year-old boy and a 22-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are being questioned.
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I am so upset by this story, of yet another senseless, violent death. I remember a similar story last year .. a man attacked in the town and left for dead. Also of the murder of a woman in the town 3 years ago: A 36-year-old man reversed his Land Rover over his girlfriend's head after an argument in a Lowestoft pub (a notorious dive of a place, in the old red-light area). Her body was found several days later in the boot of the car.
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I lived on this road until 5 months ago. It is notorious for rough drinkers and trouble. The Royal Court Hotel is indicative of the area, and is described online as "a dosshouse", "vile", "filthy"
It is in the poorest part of a poor town, full of B&Bs which no longer house holidaymakers, but homeless people on benefits.
There has been an influx of immigrants (from other parts of the UK as well as other countries) to the town in recent years, on benefits or very low agri wages, and there is a generation of people who have never worked, adding to the feeling of desolation and uselessness of the place (there are no big employers any more (Sanyo, Birds Eye); factories have closed down; our shipbuilding and fishing industries have disappeared).
I was frequently woken at night by drunken youths screaming, shouting and banging on doors, breaking windows. Twice my own door was nearly kicked in at 2am, by drunken young men, turned out from the local nightclub. I rang the police, who didn't come. There were prostitutes plying their trade in the flat upstairs.
I had to live there because I was on benefits myself, and could not afford anything better. I am so grateful that I met Mr Sheds and was able to move to a safer place (although we still have our windows banged by drunk youths).
It used to be a cr@ppy seaside town when I was a teenager - now it is a depressing and dangerous place. It's days like these that I despair for this country.
Weeing in the lift. Vandalism. Last straw was coming back home, we turned a corner and a man was stabbed to death about 15 metres away. It was a bright, sunny Sunday afternoon in August. We met one of our old neighbours a few months ago and he told us it had got worse after we left. He thankfully managed to sell up, as well. I don't know what the solution is but I think it has to be drastic to stop these feral sub-humans from acting out their mindless violence.
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