Nigerian Muslim convert beheaded woman in London

[Anthea]

Telegraph

Woman beheaded in north London garden

A firearms officer suffered a broken wrist while arresting a man after the "highly visible attack" in Edmonton, but police say it was "not terrorist related"

A woman has been beheaded in a back garden after being attacked with what is thought to be a machete.

The victim was found at an address in Nightingale Road, Edmonton, north London, just after 1pm today.

Scotland Yard gave few details but said that a man has been arrested. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a man with a machete in the area

The force said: "Police were called to an address in Nightingale Road at 13.07pm today to reports of a stabbing incident.

"On arrival officers discovered a female collapsed in a garden area.

"A man has been detained and remains in custody.

"At this very early stage we are not in a position to give further details."

There is no suggestion that the killing had any terrorist motive.

Scotland Yard said a firearms officer had suffered a broken wrist in the course of arresting the 25-year-old man who is being held on suspicion of murder.

Detective Chief Inspector John Sandlin, leading this investigation, said: "This was a highly visible attack in broad daylight on a residential street. I can understand why this may cause people concern, however we are confident that we are not looking for anyone else at this stage.

"Whilst it is too early to speculate on what the motive behind this attack was I am confident, based on the information currently available to me, that it is not terrorist related.

"Local officers and specialist detectives are at the scene and will remain there for many hours to come.

"Specially trained family liaison officers will be deployed to support the family; we request that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... arden.html

[Anthea]

We now know that the woman was an 82 year old named Palmira Silva

The name Palmira comes from Syria

A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody

The poor MURDERER is in hospital being treated for injuries suffered when he was arrested

Paid for by OUR (the people of England's) taxes

I expect the many other countries would have had a much more suitable ways to treat him

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Probably a mental case. Or caused by drugs. Some days ago, a beheading happened in a city near to Paris, after a drug-party in a flat.

[Anthea]

Probably a mental case. Or caused by drugs. Some days ago, a beheading happened in a city near to Paris, after a drug-party in a flat.

Gruesome

Just cannot understand someone attacking an 82 year old

Perhaps these drugs make people think they are Jihadists

Be honest we seldom hear about anyone being beheaded

THANK GOODNESS

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Machette is an African weapons, not especially islamist, in Rwanda, genocide of Hutus has been made with machettes.

Once in France, a mad man killed several people with a machette. He was African. When a French man becomes crazy and kills people, he used a gun, Each ethnic group has its favorite weapons I suppose, even the psychos.

[Anthea]

Mail Online

Horror in London suburb as woman, 82, is found beheaded 'with a machete' in back garden - after man was spotted attacking cats
By Leon Watson for MailOnline and Amanda Williams for MailOnline

Horror in London suburb as woman, 82, is found beheaded 'with a machete' in back garden - after man was spotted attacking cats

Officers called to the north London address just after 1pm today
There they found the victim collapsed in a back garden
Some eyewitnesses said they saw a man killing cats beforehand
A Taser gun was deployed and a 25-year-old man arrested nearby
A police officer was injured during the arrest, suffering a broken wrist
The man was arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody
Scotland Yard said there is no suggestion killing had terrorist motive
Police Complaints Commission informed after arrested man injured

A woman who was found beheaded in a suburban back garden after a man 'went berserk with a machete' has been named by police as Palmira Silva, 82.

The victim, who is believed to be of Italian descent and also known as Pamela, was found dead outside a house in Edmonton, north London.

Police say the killing is not currently being linked to terrorism and that specialist firearms officers were called to to reports of a man wielding a knife and attacking animals just after 1pm. Witnesses say he had been 'cutting the head off a cat' as he walked along the road.

When officers arrived, they found the victim collapsed in a garden. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police officers cornered the man to stop him attacking anyone else while they evacuated homes along Nightingale Road, Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Letchford said.

The 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody. He is also receiving medical treatment after sustaining injuries in the arrest.

Rickie Benson, a builder working up the road from the horror scene, said: 'I heard there was a man walking up the road cutting the head off a cat as he made his way to the house.

'I saw them taking a body out. It was in a bag and they were putting it into an ambulance at about 2.30. I heard someone was murdered in the house.'

Lauren Perkins, who lived on nearby Goodwin Road, told the Enfield Independent: 'I was walking down the road when I saw a man with a big knife walking down the street.

'Then I saw some police come down and they told me to get off the road. I just can't believe something like that would happen. It's just so shocking.'

Dino Evagorou, 58, who lives in Nightingale Road, near to the victim, said: 'I was in the house on my own at around 1 and I suddenly heard helicopters.

'I looked outside. Before you know it there were just police sirens everywhere. A big group of police charged one of the flats with batons and smashed some of the windows.

'I think the flat is rented. I didn’t see what happened inside or when they came out. They’ve put up loads of cordons and so on.'

Commander Simon Letchford said: 'There were a number of people resident. What we do know is that this male has gone along a number of the back gardens of this premises.

'Officers who attended the scene have evacuated a number of those people from those premises to make them safe.

'During that period they distracted the man from carrying out any further attacks.'

He added that officers had smashed house windows to get people out after the man had been 'cornered' in a house.

He continued: 'They (the officers) did everything they could to evacuate people from those premises and that clearly they were aware of what had happened and they put themselves in extreme danger to protect the public, to ensure that his behaviour was stopped as soon as it possibly could be.'

Cmdr Letchford confirmed that police were called to the scene by initial reports of a man attacking an animal, a cat or a dog.

A weapon was recovered at the scene but he would not reveal what it was. Tasers were deployed as the man was arrested, he said.

The arrested man is currently in hospital being treated for injuries suffered when he was arrested, he said.

Police will then determine when he can be interviewed. Cmdr Letchford said they were still trying to establish the attacker's motive.

Eyewitnesses had reported seeing a 'madman with a machete' in the area around lunchtime.

Sky News reports that other potential victims fled in a car from the area where the attack took place.

It is believed they escaped the scene in a Blue Ford Focus car, which reportedly made it only a few hundred yards before it was stopped.

Two 'crying and screaming' young boys were seen being lifted out a window by police from a house where the woman was allegedly beheaded.

Taxi firm manger Kharul Islam, 40, saw the officers being handed two boys aged around three and seven out of the window and then led to safety as they tried to raid the house in Nightingale Road.

They surrounded the front and back door and asked a woman in the house to pass out the weeping children.

He said: 'When the police arrived there was a lot of panic and they were trying to get through the windows on the ground floor.

'They were talking to the family inside. I saw two kids being held out of the window, I think they were boys by a woman. She looked like their mother and was older than the guy arrested.Then the police smashed their way into the house.

'The family looked like they might be from Afghanistan. They were screaming and crying. I saw a police lady holding both of them.

'The mother came out and then they went into the van.'

Cmdr Letchford said the investigation has now been handed over to the Homicide and Major Crime unit. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) have also been informed after the man was injured during the arrest.

The next door neighbour of the house where the attack took place, who wished not to be named, said: 'I heard lots of screaming and shouting coming from next door.

'Then a guy with a knife was in our back garden. There was a lot of blood on the knife and he was just hacking away at stuff. It's just unbelievable, I'm so shocked.'

George Stutianou, who was working on a nearby house when the attack happened, said: 'There were so many police here, there must have been about 30 cars.

'I saw some police smashing the doors and the windows of three houses either side through women and children.

'We were in the road and two policemen were running as fast as they could towards us, shouting at us to run and get out of the street. We just didn't know what was going on.

An ambulance woman spokesman said: 'We were called at 1.30pm to an incident in Nightingale Road, Edmonton. We sent a number of resources to the scene including London's Air Ambulance, an ambulance crew and a duty officer.

'Sadly a woman was pronounced dead at the scene by the doctor from London's Air Ambulance.'

Witness Ricardo Kwiek told Sky News: 'We've seen a lot of police coming in. They got to the door, and when they got there, the person didn't want to let them in.

'But the police wanted to get in through the back, and the person wouldn't let them in. So they broke the door down. After that there was a man that came out and they got him.

'But he was fighting with police - and they got him in the police van. Some local people that maybe seen it closer, they said they saw two children.

'But I'm not 100 per cent sure about that because that's what the locals told me. I wasn't that close to see what he looked like.

'When the police arrived we were shocked to see so much police in one second, that was very weird for us. There was around maybe 40 police cars that came in and blocked the road.

'I think they handled it pretty good, because straight away they blocked off the area and told people to come out of their houses. Some of the police are still outside investigating what happened.'

The road is a typical suburban street in the London Borough of Edmonton. The average house value on there is £310,000, while it is £275,000 in the local N9 postcode area.

Twitter users reacted with shock following the incident.

Kelly Gannon said: 'Edmonton makes me so sick there's always some kind of killing going on.'

'Sultanic_10' said: 'Nightingale Road is where my secondary school was, there's obviously a secondary school and a primary school very nearby.'

And Alex Ioanno, of nearby Enfield, said: 'Used to walk down Nightingale Road every day and a woman's been beheaded. Stay safe people, it's a crazy world.'

Fashion designer Moyowa Akitikori said on Twitter: 'Someone just beheaded near my road. I'm so not leaving my house.

'Just this afternoon is just so sad like I go running on Nightingale Road and just when I thought I lived in a safe area [sic].'

And Matthew Williamson ‏said: 'I chose the right day to be working off Nightingale Road. Woman [has] been beheaded on the next b***** road. What is wrong with this world?'

Cuckoo Hall Primary School is located just off Nightingale Road, but a spokesman declined to comment on the situation nearby when approached by MailOnline.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... arden.html

[Anthea]

Machette is an African weapons, not especially islamist, in Rwanda, genocide of Hutus has been made with machettes.

Once in France, a mad man killed several people with a machette. He was African. When a French man becomes crazy and kills people, he used a gun, Each ethnic group has its favorite weapons I suppose, even the psychos.

You were right:

The killer is confirmed as a Nigerian who is apparently very well-known in the area

He is also believed to be a Muslim convert

Update on information:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... arden.html

[Anthea]

Express

First picture of man arrested after 'sweet' grandmother beheaded in London garden
By: Jane Mathews and Max Evans

THE first photos have emerged of the 82-year-old woman found beheaded in a north London garden and the man reportedly arrested in connection with her death.



Nicholas Salvadore, a 25-year-old believed to be a recent Muslim convert, has been named locally as the man being held by police over Palmira Silva's death, according to reports.

The pensioner, who was named last night, was found dead at an address in Edmonton, north London, just after 1pm yesterday.

Police discovered the woman - who was of Italian descent and ran the nearby Silva's Cafe - after responding to reports of a man clad in black and armed with a knife.

Scotland Yard said a firearms officer suffered a broken wrist as police were forced to use tasers to arrest the 25-year-old.

The Metropolitan Police is yet to comment on the injuries the victim suffered or the weapon used but Ms Silva was reportedly attacked with a machete.

Salvadore, also known locally as “Fat Nick”, was reportedly a friend of one of Mrs Silva’s neighbours and had stayed with them in recent weeks.

Locals say he converted to Islam last year, but police insist there is no evidence that terrorism was involved in Ms Silva's death.

Tributes were paid to Ms Silva as the man arrested in connection with her death remains under police guard in hospital.

Dilek Solma, 19, working behind the counter in a fruit and vegetable shop next door, said: "I'm so upset. She was a very smiley lady, always had a smile on her face, and loved the community.

"If somebody dropped something in here, she would help pick it up. Although she was 82, she was younger than me, and I'm 19.

"I don't know what the world's coming to."

A neighbour who knew Ms Silva said the widow was "such a sweet lady" who had lived in the house for more than 25 years and still went to work every day.

The neighbour, who did not want to be named, said she was "devastated" by what had happened.

"I was speaking to her yesterday. She was weeding in the front garden, she loved her gardening," she explained yesterday.

Full Article:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/506996 ... -in-garden

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It is often a sign of unbalanced mental when someone converts. Religious delirium.

In general I have always found that converted people are not really well balanced, whatever the religion they chose

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It is often a sign of unbalanced mental when someone converts. Religious delirium.

In general I have always found that converted people are not really well balanced, whatever the religion they chose

I know 2 people who have become born again Muslims and they have both changed so much - all they can do is talk about Islam all the time and how everybody has to realise we are all Muslims

But born again Christians are just as stupid

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In 19th century, murderous migrants were Jews and Polish, each time has its monsters :

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/ ... 67854.html

btw, if the conclusions of the investigation are true, many series and movies would be ridiculous (I loved the one with Michael Cain), as when DNA proved that Louis XVII was the child died in the Temple Prison.