Four Murders on the front page of the BBC

[amputeeporn]

Five if you count a soldier killed in a live fire exercise in Pembrokeshire.

Is this normal or is everyone just cracking up?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56307038

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56304839

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56306305

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56301223

Bonus soldier: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56304979

[bgmnts]

All crap horrible stories that make me sad but the name Bennylyn made me laugh and I hated myself for it.

[Captain Z]

In its commitment to balance, all four UK nations are being represented equally.

[amputeeporn]

In its commitment to balance, all four UK nations are being represented equally.

If we could all just see how united we truly are!

[St_Eddie]

I'd postulate that the ongoing lockdown and the stress it causes, both on relationships and in a general sense, has likely had an effect upon moving people who always had a strong potential for murdering someone into actually going through with it.  Either that, or murders are like buses...

[Johnny Yesno]

Five if you count a soldier killed in a live fire exercise in Pembrokeshire.

Is this normal or is everyone just cracking up?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56307038

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56304839

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56306305

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56301223

Bonus soldier: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56304979

Four if you don't call the first one too early.

[monkfromhavana]

Someone got shot in next street to ours at the weekend. Partner was awake and heard the gunshot, which I in my slumbery state passed off as "just a house noise".

Mental.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/two-people-injured-coventry-shooting-19984996

[Buelligan]

Relax friends, looks like if you're not a woman or a child, you're probably safe in Boris' bouncing Britain. 

[El Unicornio, mang]

An issue worldwide exacerbated by the pandemic, New York's murder rate was nearly 50% higher than 2019 (same thing in Chicago, they had 750 murders last year, usually the city has about 500 a year) and shootings doubled. Apparently the highest 1-year rise in murders the country has ever seen.

Pretty much all other crimes were down drastically though. Every cloud...

[pigamus]

Sounds like lockdown is getting to Richard Curtis

[idunnosomename]

nah, form urders! urders for forms!

[Bazooka]

Relax friends, looks like if you're not a woman or a child, you're probably safe in Boris' bouncing Britain.

Why?  Men keep getting shanked weekly, sometimes daily.

[bgmnts]

I have the mental age of a child and tits, so I am safe thank fuck.

[Buelligan]

Why?  Men keep getting shanked weekly, sometimes daily.

Why?  Those were the victims listed in the news reports contained in the OP and it's International Women's Day today. 

Is that OK?  The queue for asking when's International Men's Day is next door.

[Glebe]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56307038

Sorry to disappoint you but that's a missing woman rather than a confirmed murder.

[jobotic]

Why?  Men keep getting shanked weekly, sometimes daily.

Who by?

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Who by?

My mate Liz the local librarian; always her; always fits someone else up for them, though God knows how.

[bgmnts]

Isn't it always men are more likely to be murdered by strangers but women are more likely to be murdered by someone they know?

But then women are much less safe in the safety of their own home, and of course the sexual violence.

Sucks to be a lady, basically.

[Icehaven]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56307038

Sorry to disappoint you but that's a missing woman rather than a confirmed murder.

If my extensive experience of listening to a few episodes of The Vanished is anything to go by, there's a strong chance she never left the friend's house.

[El Unicornio, mang]

Isn't it always men are more likely to be murdered by strangers but women are more likely to be murdered by someone they know?

But then women are much less safe in the safety of their own home, and of course the sexual violence.

Sucks to be a lady, basically.

Also murdered or horribly disfigured due to "dishonouring" the family in certain strict cultures, or trafficked on a mass scale around the world and often ending up dead. And the list of countries which generally violate women's rights is exhaustive.

Denmark apparently the best place to be as a woman currently.

[H-O-W-L]

Someone got shot in next street to ours at the weekend. Partner was awake and heard the gunshot, which I in my slumbery state passed off as "just a house noise".

To be fair I've heard gunfire in open fields several times and mistaken it for not-being-gunfire. In a built-up area I'd never assume any one bang is gunfire.

[Ambient Sheep]

If my extensive experience of listening to a few episodes of The Vanished is anything to go by, there's a strong chance she never left the friend's house.

Unfortunately CCTV differs.

[BlodwynPig]

Unfortunately CCTV differs.

that was earlier in the evening?

[Icehaven]

Unfortunately CCTV differs.

that was earlier in the evening?

Yeah the article linked says there was CCTV of her before she got to the friend's house but didn't mention any from after she'd left. If other sources say otherwise then fair doos. They're appealing for dashcam footage of roads she would have walked by too so if she did leave that might bring something up.

[Ambient Sheep]

Oh, I thought they had at least one shot from after, but maybe I'm wrong then.  Perfectly possible, not been myself the last few days.

Seems they're now checking the drains, dunno how near the friend's flat, but if so then maybe friend was a Dennis Nilsen fan.

[non capisco]

Oh, I thought they had at least one shot from after, but maybe I'm wrong then. 

You're not wrong. There's a doorbell camera shot of her half an hour after she left the friend's house.

[Ambient Sheep]

Thanks.  Although maybe that was found after the appeal and I was wrong when I typed it! ;-)

[imitationleather]

She might have come down with COVID and fallen asleep in a bush.

[The Bumlord]

A serving Met officer has just been arrested over that woman's disappearance. Eek

[Ambient Sheep]

Yup, along with someone who is presumably his missus:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56342465

Looking at the map at the bottom of the article, she'd got well clear of the Common before she vanished.