Safety first

The motto of the Oxfordshire police is definitely not ‘No Guts, No Glory’.
On sunday the estranged husband of a mother of two broke into her house, shot his wife, her sister and their mother.
Neighbours heard the shots, saw the shooter jump over a fence and run off, and discovered the victims.

The ambulance service says it took 1 hour and 7 minutes for crews to reach the women, not because they were busy or the house was hard to find but because the police had cordoned off the area and wouldn’t let anyone in until they were sure the gunman wasn’t around, even though the neighbours made several calls to say he’d gone.
Not surprisingly two of the women ended up dead, one at the scene and one in hospital.

The papers all showed pictures of the armed police in their black SWAT gear, bulletproof vests, machine guns, waiting behind their cars, but what’s the point if they’re never going to take a chance.

By BootsnAll | Permalink

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