Current Events > School girl who fled UK due to rampant knifecrime stabbed to death in Jamaica

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UnfairRepresent
09/22/19 9:40:29 PM
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A teenager who left London to live in Jamaica over fears of rising knife crime in the capital has been stabbed to death. Stefika Smith, 17, left her Thornton Heath home in south London for a new start on the Caribbean Island because her parents Morris, 56, and Pauline, 54, wished she could have the same idyllic life growing up they did.

The star-student, whose killer has yet to be found, was murdered and dumped next to a lonely track beside a sugarcane field on May 12, two days after vanishing on a trip into town with a friend. She was found wearing her favourite one-piece yellow body suit with a single stab wound to the throat in rural May Pen, in the south of the island, two weeks before her 18th birthday. Her clothes were ripped and there were signs she had put up a struggle, authorities have said.

The familys trauma was made all the worse after a picture of Stefikas body was posted on social media, before they had learned she had been killed. Speaking out for the first time about her daughters death, Pauline said: Ive lost an angel. There was a lot of knife crime in London and I wanted to take Stefika away from those dangers.

We wanted to her to have the same idyllic life my husband and I had growing up in Jamaica. But wicked people put an end to that. My beautiful sweet daughter left what we saw as a knife threat but became a stabbing victim herself where we took her to be safer. I still cannot take it in.

Stefika, a pupil at Norbury Manor Business Enterprise College for Girls, sang at the gospel choir of the New Testament Church of God in Brixton before moving to Jamaica in May 2016.

The exemplary student vanished on a trip into town with a friend. Her body was found two days later dumped on a lonely track beside a sugar cane field.

Police are still hunting the killer or killers. Stefika grew up in Brixton and Thornton Heath, South London and moved to Four Paths, Clarendon, Jamaica, with her parents Morris, 56, and Pauline, 54.

Mum Pauline, who herself lived in Jamaica until she was 23, told the Sunday People: Stefika was always concerned about her safety in London when she went out because of the stabbings and gangs. She didnt like to be on the streets. It stopped her meeting friends or joining groups. By contrast, growing up in Jamaica in the 1960s was an ideal world. We could do anything totally safely. There was no sense of danger. We could be outside all the time, swimming in rivers or playing in each others yards. But crime in the region has soared since the family moved to the area with the government declaring a state of emergency in 2018.

During states of emergency police and military personnel are given the authority to search people and buildings, curtail business hours and detain individuals without a warrant.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that a one-month extension to the state of emergency in Clarendon, the district covering May Pen, will last until 19 October and said it could yet be extended further.

Under the emergency measures, businesses must close at 10pm each day. Murder and shooting rates fell by 73 per cent between 5 September and 11 September as a result of the emergency state, police officials said.

They have recorded 948 murders and 908 shooting incidents across 19 police divisions since the start of 2019, with much of the violence linked to gang rivalries.


Full Article: https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/22/british-schoolgirl-stabbed-death-jamaica-family-moved-safer-life-10787736/
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Jamacia has 2.7 murders a day, I don't get what the parents were thinking.

Why not just move her out of London? Most of the UK is pretty safe. No one is getting stabbed to death in Bourton-on-the-Water.
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R1masher
09/22/19 9:41:09 PM
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Im waiting for cliff notes
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Malcrasternus
09/22/19 9:42:31 PM
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Darkraiomb
09/22/19 9:42:37 PM
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Zikten
09/22/19 9:43:16 PM
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I'm sorry but her parents were idiots.

sorry the girl paid with her life for their bad mistake

yea, she could have just left London for a different part of the UK
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YourDrunkFather
09/22/19 9:43:50 PM
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I cant even put into words the level of stupidity one must have to think Jamaica of all places is a good place to get away from violent crime

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UnfairRepresent
09/24/19 4:14:11 AM
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YourDrunkFather posted...
I cant even put into words the level of stupidity one must have to think Jamaica of all places is a good place to get away from violent crime

yeah.
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Hop103
09/27/19 11:15:36 AM
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Jamaica isn't safe when you go outside of the tourist areas.
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ssjevot
09/27/19 11:19:30 AM
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This is a tragedy. The thing you have to remember is most people neither know, not understand crime statistics. So when their primary source of information is sensationalist media they probably think the UK is a super dangerous place with lots of knife crime and Jamaica isn't, because when they lived in the UK all they heard about were stabbings in the UK and not Jamaica.
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RebelElite791
09/27/19 11:21:44 AM
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Th3Truth posted...
Honestly, in terms of violent crime even China mightve been a safer place.

Even china? China is pretty fucking safe, especially from violent crime
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Southernfatman
09/27/19 11:23:52 AM
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Th3Truth posted...
Honestly, in terms of violent crime even China mightve been a safer place.


Did you really delete your post just to say it again to bump the topic?
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UnfairRepresent
09/27/19 5:42:17 PM
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ssjevot posted...
they probably think the UK is a super dangerous place with lots of knife crime a

it is
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Tropicalwood
09/27/19 5:46:03 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
ssjevot posted...
they probably think the UK is a super dangerous place with lots of knife crime a

it is

No, no. They're only banning knives so people stop hurting themselves.
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AsucaHayashi
09/27/19 5:54:56 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
. By contrast, growing up in Jamaica in the 1960s was an ideal world.


imagine being so far up your own ass not to realize that times change.
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NeonOctopus
09/27/19 5:57:41 PM
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YourDrunkFather posted...
I cant even put into words the level of stupidity one must have to think Jamaica of all places is a good place to get away from violent crime

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UnfairRepresent
09/27/19 6:12:33 PM
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AsucaHayashi posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
. By contrast, growing up in Jamaica in the 1960s was an ideal world.


imagine being so far up your own ass not to realize that times change.

or do research
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