UK Censors ‘Misinformation’ About Migrant Crime That Turned Out to Be 100% True

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What prompted Kendall’s move was the riots that broke out in Belfast, in the UK province of Northern Ireland, last week, after a Sudanese Muslim immigrant tried to saw the head off a partially deaf and disabled local man named Stephen Ogilvie. This was immediately after stabbing Ogilvie in the eyes, making him blind as well as deaf now, too. Reports suggest the victim will lose at least one of his eyes.

The message the UK government wanted angry citizens to absorb afterwards was quite clear: don’t riot, and please continue to celebrate diversity. By remarkable coincidence, it turned out the victim’s family shared such sentiments precisely, releasing an emergency statement via police. It warned of how “We have witnessed a lot of false information circulating” online, and pleaded with rioters to stop burning immigrants out of their homes:

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The answer would seem to be that it was probably drafted by a Family Liaison Officer (FLO), a specialist police official assigned to help families cope with sudden criminal tragedies in their lives and, equally as importantly, to control what they then say in public. This can be presented benignly to the family as “You don’t want to say anything stupid and risk jeopardizing the killer’s trial, do you?” but often such declarations are really only verbal crowd control.

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What was the alleged “false information?” The suspect, Hadi Alodid, was in fact a Sudanese asylum seeker, just as social media said. And, as was also claimed online, once arrested and taken to hospital himself, he really did subsequently threaten to kill the workers treating him. And, he really was low-IQ enough to say “I’ve just killed someone, I don’t know if he is dead” after arrest. And, of course, he really did try to cut an innocent man’s head off (here’s the graphic footage to prove it). So, the online “misinformation” was all true.

This is in stark contrast to certain more demonstrable actual misinformation put out by agents of the British state during migrant-related crime cases of late. Following the murder of white teenager Henry Nowak by a Sikh knifeman, for example, local police wanted to put out statements falsely implying Nowak had been the aggressor, and even tried to put out a notice warning people against spreading online “disinformation” during the eventual court case, a statement which could itself have caused a mistrial.

Likewise, during the case of “Sophie of Dundee,” the 12-year-old Scottish girl caught on camera defending herself by brandishing a knife and axe after being harassed by Bulgarian immigrants who implied they wanted to sexually abuse her, Scotland’s First Minister condemned online descriptions of the Romanians as the aggressors as being “deliberate misinformation” from the likes of Elon Musk, designed to “undermine” community cohesion.

Police Scotland similarly released a statement saying the supposedly innocent “Bulgarian couple” had been disgracefully “approached by youths” armed with weapons whilst on a stroll, trying to pin all blame on Sophie. Following a trial last week, the Bulgarians were found guilty after all. So, here, disinformation about migrants was indeed being spread online, but by the police, not the likes of Elon Musk.

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