AOG - "/// I fail to see the relavence of mentioning Stephen Lawrence, perhaps you would like to expand that point AOG? ///
"I would have thought that would be obvious Andy ..." Obviously it was not obvious to me, which is why I queried it.
"...unless you are trying to back me into a 'racist' argument."
I am not trying to 'back you' into anything! I made no mention of the ethnicity of either victim - you brought that up, for reasons of whcih I am usnure.
"But it matters not the colour of the murdered person's skin, if a plaque was allowed to be placed on the site where Stephen was murdered, why shouldn't there be one to show the place where Lee was murdered?"
This is where things become difficult.
At what point does a council or authority decide that a murder is tragic enough to merit a memorial?
All murders are violent tragic losses of life, but if everyone attracted a memorial, then the streets would be impassible in a very short space of time.
So decisions must be made about who'se death merrits a memorial, and whose does not - not a decision I would like to have to make.