04 Nov 2013, 5:06 pm
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He was said to have shown prurient interest in the children who lived in the maisonettes and played on the grassy quad onto which they face, even taking pictures of them on his iPhone — a claim which, though refuted by the police, I still heard repeatedly this week.
So the idea that he was taking pictures of children is just a rumor. The "play area" is just the green space in front of the houses... not a playground or child-only zone at all.
The only person we know was watching children was the amateur surveillance man, Daniel Perry, who caught Mr. Ebrahimi's murder on video while trying to catch the teenage vandals who had slashed his tyres.
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‘He always seemed to be staring at her, and it made her too nervous. People are calling him a victim, but he wasn’t as innocent as they say.’
Staring at people is not a crime. It is something a stay at home guy whose only interests are his cats and plants might do without realizing the discomfort his gaze might cause. But we don't know that he actually stared at anyone--just that "he seemed to be."
The rest seems to have been imagined by his killers and then mistaken for reality.
In any case, he was not photographing children on the day that precipitated the reaction that led to his murder, he was photographing family groups, including the drunken men who went on to kill him.
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Officers have since issued a statement saying that they found no indecent or suspicious images on his camera or computer.
But blaming the victim is OK if he is unpopular, or weird, or if people can imagine that he might be up to something untoward...
People suck.
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