Britain faced record temperatures in June, but a recent social media post highlights how its citizens spent the month living in a hellscape—independently of the weather.
On X, already viewed 43,600 times (and rising), “@welshmaan” sets out a grim timetable of crime stories from a single month. A lightly edited version follows:
- 02/06: Nowak bodycam footage is released
- 03/06: 15 Muslim men sentenced for child sexual abuse in Bradford
- 04/06: Three Muslim men imprisoned for child sexual abuse
- 05/06: 20 Muslim men jailed for child sexual abuse
- 06/06: Idris Ahmed—in Barry, Wales—stabbed a 17-year-old boy in the leg, who later needed it amputated
- 07/06: Romanian man charged with rape of teenage two girls
- 08/06: Sudanese migrant in Belfast attempted to behead his neighbour (a man with special educational needs)
- 09/06: 14-year-old girl stabs 2 pupils and a teacher in school
- 09/06: Afghan men ‘fled UK in lorry after raping girl’
- 10/06: Tapiwanashe Sibanda jailed for raping a woman at knifepoint and stealing her mobile phone
- 11/06: Pakistani Sherak Malik jailed for raping a teenage girl in a park
- 12/06: Sentences for three teenagers to be reconsidered after they received community orders, not imprisonment, for raping multiple girls at knife-point
- 13/06: Gagandeep Singh abducted a woman and took her to a west London house where he raped and tortured her
- 14/06: Pakistani man charged with stabbing teenage girl in the neck
- 15/06: Jamie Varley charged with the rape and murder of his adopted baby
- 16/06: A teenager stabbed a nine-year-old girl to death in Weston-super-Mare
- 17/06: Ziaullah Badshah, now 25, is one of four men facing charges of child sexual exploitation and trafficking
- 18/06: Man throws a toddler into a crocodile pit
- 19/06: Waleed Saeed sentenced for 17 offences, including rape, blackmail and making indecent images of children
- 19/06: Nitesh Nitesh, 20, jailed for six years for his involvement in the rape earlier this year
- 20/06: Bilal Alfroh, of Gorton, found guilty of several counts of rape and actual bodily harm
- 22/06: Reinaldo Valdes charged with alleged rape in 2024
- 23/06: Suleman Mukaish sentenced for the rape of a woman in a car park in Worthing
- 24/06: Kwame Yeboah pleaded guilty to 3 counts of r#pe of a girl under 13 and 1 count of sexual assault of a girl under 13
- 25/06: 47-year-old Dominik Szymanski—who punched, kicked and raped a female victim when she refused to have sex with him at his flat—was jailed
- 26/06: 15-year-old boy charged after giving two children alcohol and raping them
- 27/06: ‘French’ man from Central African Republic charged with rape and murder of a two-year-old
- 27/06: Somali-born driver charged with attempted murder after five hurt in car-ramming incident in Ealing Broadway, London
- 28/06: Asad Hussain jailed for eight years after creating a fake Tinder profile in his ex-girlfriend’s name to encourage men to break into her home and rape her
- 29/06: Twelve-year-old girl raped in broad daylight in Plymouth
To this we could add 30/6: Rochdale ‘grooming gang’ leader is set for release from prison but can’t be deported thanks to a legal loophole.
As “comedian and civilisationist” Leo Kearse posted on X, formerly Twitter
It’s insane that this is the new normal.
