Alex Phillips Describes Moment She Was Mugged In Broad Daylight | “It’s Made Me Very Hyperaware”
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2024
- TalkTV’s Alex Phillips has described the moment she was the victim of a mugging at 11.30am on London’s main shopping street - and how she suffered a panic attack as a result.
Speaking to Jeremy Kyle and Rosie Wright on Talk Today, Phillips explained how her assailant tried to rob her in broad daylight on Oxford Street.
She said: “Before I know it, a kid on a push bike has zoomed off. I have no doubt he was trying to go for the phone… Nobody batted an eyelid.”
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In Broken Britain, everything is inverted: criminals are treated as the victims, horrible obnoxious people are "mentally ill", illegal immigrants' rights are put above those of taxpaying natives etc. etc. etc.
Oh You’ve notice 👍
@@barryhill1044 It's worth pointing out again and again. The second we stop, it becomes normalised.
Your way too late mate
@@treestump2985 Neah, the Spanish kicked them out after 800 years. We've only had to put up with them for a few decades.
@@goodyeoman4534 the Spanish were not trying to replace their population. we are. In 20 years you will be a minority in your own country. What will you do then?
These crimes aren't investigated. People are left to fend for themselves.
Be careful you don ' t get done for GBH !
@@johnsmith-rs2vk It has become the case that the only law not to break is getting caught.
@@johnsmith-rs2vkExactly what I was thinking, retaliate and you’ll be the one who’s in trouble !
So what the purpose of all the
cctv cameras all around?
if you bother hoing to the gym. get big. learn to fight? then your have the edge rather than expect the police to take care of your wimpy arses
mass immigration has destroyed the previous social norms that existed before
It was a white English dud lol
@@joseph9074 everyone commits crimes but I think the OP point still stands, there was a generational society built up in London over hundreds of years which has been wiped out overnight and replaced with a completely new one out of nowhere, not the biggest locial leap to see why this maybe causing some "instability" in the capital. Not that I've ever given a rats ass about the place.
@@Justin-yt8zvu right wingers cry like leftists when ppl speak facts🥱🥱🥱
Check your facts before you jump to conclusions to fit your own prejudices 🙄
@@user-eh8cg4bp3ylol these racists jump onto every negative news story the same way - as though the UK was crime free previously
A side-effect of a Diversity-driven society ! We have people living in London (and most other cities) for whom violence and corruption is simply a way of life, culturally-speaking. The demise of our once peaceful UNIFIED nation is scandalous.....and never forget when it truly started - May 1st 1997. If you want to see Britain's future - take a look at some American Cities. Our future is bleak on so many levels.....thanks to 27 years of LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISTS running the country. To vote main Parties later this year is to vote for MORE decline.
It started in the 1950s
It started with the Crusades.
100s of years of terror by the british and once they control enough of the planet and their resources they decide to want to be civil and have the nerve to act like a victim 😂
@@darrylsimpson4744the ottoman empire u mean
@@lionheart3429shaddap ya clown, go back to ur homeland, we don't want u fannies here
You know that country your forefathers fought and died for ? We don't have that any longer we gave it up without a fight. London is a foreign country.
And lots of great foreign restaurants thank god
A war was lost without a shot fired. You couldn't have made this up !
@@joseph9074 the only benefit for mass replacement of the indigenous British people anyone can ever come up with is food, pathetic.
@@joseph9074just be careful that you don't get mugged for your watch or mobile phone on the way home.
Yes. White indigenous people never commit crimes.
Oh.....
People need to open their eyes and have awareness. There's scumbags everywhere.
yep, and you're watching a few here.
Not clever nor witty 🤡
Too clever for you
@@johng.1703So the scumbag is the victim? Says a lot about you,clown!
@johng.1703 Have you ever heard the phrase democracy ends when people stop talking? I'm telling you now, you're dangerous and vulnerable to radicalism. Scumbags are criminals, paedophiles, serial killers etc, not people who have differing political views.
Just give us the right to DEFEND OURSELVES WITH WHATEVER WEAPONS WE HAVE
You mean zombie knifes plank
Pepper spray is classed as a firearm knife is ok
You are legally entitled to use reasonable force. What's reasonable depends on the circumstances.
@@jjefferyworboys8138Reasonable force is in the eyes of the police not you while protecting yourself. You are only allowed to defend against not in effect stop the attack.
@@thepuddlejumper500it’s actually not in the hands of the police at all, but the law. If the policy improper enforce it, you can sue them.
When all weapons are illegal but all criminals seem to have them, you have to wonder... are we being made easy prey for any particular reason?
Fuck the Post Office scandal, fuck all of the flavour of the week activism, we need reform and we need to fight back.
100% spot on , we have a scammer prime minister sat on a billion personal fortune while the whole the country freezes . Id have the military take the torys out of clowning street & reform this shire outdated system which resides in the 16th century
I think Alex is Reform?she couldn’t even give a description.Reform are Tory’s,they will rob the disabled & poor then make sure the toff villages are all nice & chocolate boxy but our foreign town will stay.They are very politically correct & these warnings spell controlled opposition,in my opinion of course.
Laws on weapons doesn't protect the public it helps the criminals to know that they have the upper hand and you can't protect yourself or your belongings. 😡
Jeez, yeah, some bimbo gets bumped into in the street and we should forget about the PO controversy, the biggest injustice in recent history.
We need weapons to protect us
This is only the beginning..things are gonna get so much worse unfortunately
Been happening for decades. It is already worse.
People have no idea. Lebanon 2.0
Was Randy Marsh really wrong ? :/
London the new 3rd world. But not because of immigrants says some blind people.
Do you mean Londonistan ?
I was chased by 4 guys with samurai swords and a bottle of acid on Oxford St cos I smacked someone for grabbing my armani bag. This was ab 8pm there were hundreds of people watching, noone even called the police. I ran into a shop and the lady working there saw the boys and locked the door. Police arrived 40 mins later, the guys were loitering outside flashing their swords for a solid 10 mins. My black coat turned purple from where they sprayed me with the acid. These guys were literally trynna kill me and in the end police couldn't identify them even though I told them the name of 1 of them and the specific estate they lived at. The police also tried to victim blame me, they said it wouldn't have happened if i didn't hit 1 of them, focusing on that rather than the fact I nearly got murdered. They were talking to me like a naughty child while the acid was still burning my coat. I also have friends that have been mugged n had weapons pulled on them at busy train stations and even inside the cinema.
race of guys
Damn
what colour were the attackers ? cos i doubt they were young white liberal party members ?
@@mcfcguvnors The BBC wouldn't have stopped bleating about it if they were white!!
@@kevinparker461Absolutely that why we know they weren't white...x
How can we expect laws to be upheld when the police are more concerned with not upsetting people. A soboring thought is that you are more likely to be mugged in the UK than you are in America, imagine that.
Now she knows how it feels for the rest of us peasants. Happens everyday and doesn't make news.
Nothing like having some empathy 🤬🤬🤬
It's time khan is Replaced 🤬🤬🤬
@@jameswilson8820yes because nobody got mugged before Sadiq khan was major 😂😂😂
Sad that happened to her... maybe if she had waved a union jack and started to sing the national anthem the police would've come out of their hiding places and surrounded her...what a world we live in now !!!!!!
Cultural enrichment at it's finest.
Too bothered about ULEZ and gender neutral toilets.
We can picture every car in London, Oxford St must have hundreds of CCTV cameras yet nothing is done
So there must be hundreds of cctv cameras in that area, surely reviewing the recordings around that time could reveal important information as to the offenders identity and or a pattern of similar offences on Oxford St? It most definitely is going to become worse as the infiltration of illegal invaders increases.
Exactly,the UK is most surveilled Country on the planet,yet when a crimes committed,no evidence.
If you mean cops actually doing their jobs?
Also for all the illegals we know about there are probably as many that just vanished into the population. Saying that our idiot self-elected foreign PM has granted visas to thousands probably without background checks or anything else.
We need to deport all these people and reverse immigration over the past 23 years.
No one comes here that can't already support themselves would be the sensible condition.
You think the time is spent looking for these people. The WEF overlords want us scared. They will use this against us in the near future. "You will own nothing and be happy"
all they will conveniently see, not to hurt anyone’s delicate 3rd world feelings, is “a youth”. no mention of their extremely likely skin colour. case closed, no further investigation. police go back to gay parades & sitting on their arses reading hurty internet posts.
Diversity is their strength.
They're almost untouchable while we get slandered if we dare speak out about it.
Hint. There are no consequences for these crimes. The criminals know it so what do people expect?
Unfortunately that is the simple truth.
and if they are caught they just cry racism, a kiss up lawyer steps in and the crim gets a bag of compensation for abuse of their human rights The crazies truly have control.
Cultural enrichment.
Stage 3 cancer 😂
It's london - a cesspit of failed everything.
This issue is all over the UK no one battles a eye lid because everyone cares for themselves selfish attitudes have been adapted all over the UK cities and towns people are rude hostile and unfriendly no matter where you live anxiety and depression is on the rise in the UK.
Once thirty years ago I dreamt of making it in London. I thought it would be great to live in Mayfair...its sick to think London is over run with foriegn criminals and that your hard earned assests and life would be under threat in the centre of our capital.
People are too busy staring at their phones to notice anything around them.
I was on a work exchange some years ago in Germany. I was walking through a shopping precinct, and the police, on foot patrol, stopped a teenager who was riding a bike. When the kid started mouthing off, one of the officers tapped his gun in the holster, and the gobby little git immediately became compliant.
I have a question. If Oxford Street is a hotspot for crime, why aren't there more police foot patrols?
Isn't riding a bike on a footpath against the law? It's not as though there are no cycle lanes.
I suppose the answer to your question is….as soon as more plod are there it instantly becomes safe and then some bureaucrat spots the way to save some money and takes the plod out of there…..back to square one. It’s all about money as ever.
The Polizei will beat you up if you got off at them. I served in Germany in the military police and sometimes patrolled alongside them and saw first hand how tough they are on crime.
@@Kingcarparpeggionailed it.
When everyday good people feel we don't have the right or backing to defend ourselves or others, unfortunately, this is the society you get.
We should be able to defend ourselves.
If you were to have a home invasion and you're scared to stop it because of the consequences...something is wrong.
Hopefully nothing "hateful" was said
I had a neighbor who killed a burglar, he had a wife and 2 kids in the house so he was protecting he's family. I think he got 30 years. Imo he shouldn't of got any time. Wish our laws was like Murika
Yeah, each state has different laws but the constitution covers the second amendment, that in itself was aimed at the idea of a tyrannical government. Even now though, they at least have two clear cut options to vote for. we have two sides of the same coin and a defeatist attitude. We "the people" see what happens in towns, cities, the "elites" ideas of pushing everything to the country like macron did (then there was that church incident with knives) it's all bat guano. every time they treat the symptom not the cause and at the expense of the commoners...the ones with the commons sense. eeee i don't know. grassroots and up i'd say, just find the time in between a cost of living crisis.@@BlackestEyes709
London, a capital city which I loved most here in Europe has become a terrible place to go let alone to live. And this is not just due to the high crime statistics, which is bad enough, it's also the fact that it's not London anymore.
You can take the boy out of the jungle but you can't take the jungle out of the boy.
The state of London today.
Tons of tourism though
Let's be honest, if Alex reports it and they by chance happen to find the failed mugger, nothing will really be done, even if he was a successful mugger? We have a two tier policing system and a pathetic justice system.
Since Alex would have been walking on the pavement, we must assume that little b....d was cycling on the pavement!
I live in an East Anglian town where (illegal) pavement cycling is becoming a problem. When I see it, I loudly remonstrate with the offenders. Others just walk on by.
@@Ken-yf8zl Another problem that the police turn a blind eye to.
These types of crimes have been steadily increasing across Ireland, particularly over the last five years. You can probably guess what the common denominator is.
When I see anyone blithely walking so distracted by their phone they're oblivious to what's going it makes me wonder. Would they walk along distracted holding a wad of twenties? Of course not, yet they don't have the good sense to realise they're putting opportunity in the way of a thief.
The bad side , is the law of someone was to get involved and to get violent to subdue him. The person saving her from the theif would would go to jail for assault and the mugger would get a slap on the wrist what’s the point ?.... change the law and more people will help.
Ahh no description of the guy. I wonder why…!
Not as important to politicians as being insulted by Joey Barton though.
What happened to Great Britain look at what it has become it’s sad to see nobody seems to care where it matters.
But if you grabbed hold of him and restrained him until the police came you’d be arrested for assault. This is why people don’t get involved it’s just not worth it.
Also another reason why people don't like to get involved is you'd have to give a statement and possibly have to go to court as a witness etc which could take months and people would rather avoid getting involved with something which they don't need too sad how many people don't feel they should risk helping others because of what happen.
This is the country Tony Blair has thoughtfully created for us. Former Metropolitan Chief Superintendent Dal Babu is making a noise now, but what was he doing before he retired on his mega-fat pension?
I bet he never felt a collar in his entire 'career'.
@@user-wp9jj2qx7y Haaa! I'm pretty sure Chief Superintendent Babu never arrested anybody while attending this or that course on how diversity culture can be exploited for personal career advancement. To be fair, maybe he was a good cop. The truth is we'll never know...
And therein lies some of the problems. A woke ex Chief Superintendent. We have allowed people to enter this country freely and some are elevated to positions of great power (I.e. PM Sunak) where they are allowed to wield their fluffy views and complain and whinge about everything without actually bringing any constructive measures to bear. Oh, except that is those that benefit their particular communities.
Imagine Dickens trying to write a story about London’s underclass today. Imagine the names of the thugs.
Easy Peasy mate : Muhammed, Muhamad, Mohammad, Mohammed, Mahammad, Maammed, Mehemmed, Mohamad, Mohamed, Mehmet, , Mehmet
Happens all the time in London. It's the new normal. When using my phone I always stop and stand with my back to a wall and have one hand on top of the phone and one on the side and look around every 10 seconds as I use it. I've been doing that for the last 15 years after someone tried stealing my phone.
I NEVER have my phone out on display in public. No calls, texting, using the maps app. It's just asking for trouble.
A normal day on the wonderful streets of London. Is it any wonder that anyone who had the means has left? Thank you so much Mr Khan. The courts have deserted the people and most criminals are now simply let off, which has resulted in lawlessness.
When it happens to someone with a platform, it starts to exist.
Welcome to Britain 2024 , now just imagine the stories she could tell if she lived on a deprived council estate where us normal people have to live every day where lives are being snatched.
@@tvguy61🤣🤣🤣Cul de sac ISN'T A FRIGGING COUNCIL ESTATE YOU PLONKER...🙄
@@tvguy61 He's making out like he's in 'Nam, Charlie everywhere 😂
@@tvguy61 come and visit us in the midlands we have a few estates that will open your eyes .
I live in South Africa and there is no way I have my phone on display in the street if it rings I wait until I know where I will be safe to answer it. Anyone in London who walks around with their cellphone on their hands are totally bonkers. Think about the bigger picture.
Well said. That is the first thing I thought. It is the same with people wearing ear pods, they are oblivious to what is going on around them.
People these days seem to be devoid of any common sense. I don't have alot of sympathy with people who don't take responsibility for their actions and how they can endanger themselves and those around them.
Countless times people walk across the road in front of you when you are driving, it is as if the world should stop and work around them.
Lol our nations are all becoming south African .
They sure are.
Apparently the police is not allowed to chase after them if they are in a bike without a helmet
this hasn't been true for a long time.
They can chase who they like unless you are Royal
if a copper requests you stop & you dont - the what happens next happens
**ON a bike. How are you IN a bike?
🤣🤣🤣You couldn't make it up.....
Origin of the criminal?
Have a guess? 🙄
multicuterism sure looks like its working in london
I hope lessons have been learned.!!
You reap what you sow
I'm glad Alex is okay, but the story could provide benefits on both sides.
Firstly, people will become more aware of their surroundings, particularly in busy areas, so will be more careful when holding their phone in a busy area.
Secondly, people will be less attached to their phones while walking around, and then reconnect with the real world, which is good for mindfulness and mental health.
I'm not going against what you say its sound advice but it's a sad tale of the country we live in. I used to go on holiday to Austria every year....people would leave their wallets and phones at the bar while they went to the WC...I'm jealous of their society. This place is becoming the toilet of the world, good people will move away.
easy to rig a fake mobile that is a taser when any button is pressed
i really need to stay off the dark web
cuckold.
You just sense you are a target in London lately. It's not a good experience having to pass through.
Jez is right. Where are and what are the parents doing? They always seem to be void of any blame and everyone just accepts it. Total madness.
Buy a Cross body bag for mobile. Wear it inside you jacket/coat. Stop walking around with your phone in your hand.
Always interesting to watch people who have A EXPERIENCE they are NOT use to SUDDENLY REVIEWING things in a different way.... and then feel the PUBLIC NEED TO KNOW. Bad stuff is happening EVERYDAY with this government!!!! And these people are CLUELESS.
For every bad thing they say about scousers they wouldnt have stood by and allowed that. I remember in the mid 70's when mugging first started and it became endemic. A Birmingham judge decided to make an example of a 16 year old and sentenced him to life. There was a huge out cry about it. After some time it was quashed and a lesser sentence imposed. But it did the trick muggings dropped drastically.
ye liverpool the crime free haven we all love.
@jaimez23 Say What bad things about scousers? My Mum was a Scouser born and bred ( Scotty road). She married and moved to Scotland with her Scottish hubby ( my Dad) in the 60's. She never lost her accent , which is good as I don't believe folk should lose their accent of where they come from in the UK. In my opinion , folk who move elsewhere and lose their accents , it's deliberate and false . No one truly loses their accent unless it's intentional . Anyway, back to the subject in hand. I never ever heard anyone have anything negative to say about Scousers . They're down to earth , the salt of the earth and all that . Good sense of humour just like we Scots folk . My Mum sadly died last year of Parkinson's disease ( God rest her soul ) but as I say I never heard anyone having anything negative to say about Scousers . My Mum lived here in Scotland for 57 years . Her sister and brother in law still live down there in Liverpool . I've Visited down there many , many times throughout my 55 years on this earth . Anyway , I didn't and don't see anyone bad mouthing Scousers anywhere in the UK ever, even on the TV or internet.
@@paulevetts9771Mind you , it has to be said that Liverpool is becoming more like Liverpoolistan as each day passes due to the uncontrolled immigration and what was once a safe city to walk around filled with down to earth , lovely friendly people is no more. The sight of an indiginous actual born and bred Scouser whilst walking around many parts of Liverpool nowadays is a rare sight indeed . The new arrivals (aka invaders due to mass uncontrolled immigration) have ruined many parts of Liverpool.
Same in Newcastle
@@mynameisGail I'm from Scotty
English lives and culture matter 🇦🇺
Its a wake up call for you , pay attention when you are out and about . The amount of people i see coming out of a shop and the first thing they do is go on there phone , not got a clue what is going on around them . I never walk down the street on my phone maybe that's because i grew up in South Africa and you have to be aware of your surroundings'
IN THE MEANTIME: Wear a crossbody bag in front, put your phone away, and look alert.
When was the last time someone got a life sentence for robbery?!😂😂😂
or got caught and dealt with properly
I feel very sorry indeed for this lady, BUT she is not alone! The police are utterly disinterested in recording crime anyway. Any robberies that get through to the CPS, they will no doubt water down the charges. In 2000/2001 there was a robbery street crime initiative that covered 6 of the worst forces in England and Wales with robbery offences. (The usual suspects were taken to task, ie the Met, West. Midlands, Nottinghamshire, Great Manchester etc) We need exactly the same approach NOW but with all crime. Put the Chief Constables under personal pressure and then and only then do they act!
This is the society we have made for ourselves,selfish don't give a damn attitude.
Exactly! As shown by Yorkshire Rose.
You conveniently forgot to mention the colour!.... not of the phone , of the thief!!😅
Wow, just reading these comments is disgusting. No wonder this country is in the sewer! Have some human kindness and empathy people. I am sorry this happened to her.
probably because we live or have lived in the real world..not the London bubble...
Capital punishment needs to be reinstated. Only then will this lawlessness stop
People would rather get their phones out and start recording for social media.
Just think how differently these events would turn out if the perpretators knew the citizens were armed and would be rewarded for removing each predator. The ONLY way you stop predators is by making "victims" too dangerous to attack. That is why lions NEVER attack a full grown elephant or Hippo -- they have learned such activity is a death sentence. Every citizen can be made too dangerous to attack; all one needs to do is arm them AND reward them for each predator "pelt". IF you do NOT have the guts to do so; stop whining -- Lions never give a damn about how the herds of antelopes cry. So choose to become a predator or shut up.
ABSOLUTELY 👏 💯 👏
A panic attack 😂😂😂
Gosh, these people have no idea on the reality of life
🤣🤣🤣Absolutely Agree 👍 👏
@mandychadwick9262 You know the worst thing about it is that people like her who ignore countless people on the street asking for food, but when it's her looking for help, the world must stop
It's entitled behaviour I can not stand
Take care 🙂
Like I keep saying we have lost our country to foreigners and there’s no going back.
Oxford street! The most watched street in the country, cctv and security, and no action? WEF policies at their best!
Any description of the suspect ?
I wonder why not ?
3:34 He let the cat out of the bag
it's hard for people to 'have a go' as these black and brown gangs always will have knifes, guns etc. but if I saw alone woman or person on their own I would help them even just to make the numbers up. but I'm afraid with all this multiculturism, illegal immigration and diversity making the police and courts too soft and weak on hard criminals. if you experience or see crime being committed ALWAYS call the police the more they are called the more chance they will start to think 'oh there's a problem now, let's get resources on it'!
This is common. I have stopped this in my area 3 times in the past year. Maybe we should be reconsidering our migrant policies? Or am I still be to be demonised as raaaacist for pointing out the rise in such problems correlates with the rise in additional population?
0:28 Those streets are anything but "normal" anymore, and they haven't been "English" for nigh on 25/30 years now.
The state of Britain is not the Britain I grew up in.
"I shouted expletives to him" lol Thanks for broadening my vocabulary, Ive never heard that before and I like it
This should not be happening.
However, why should we have sympathy when people are encouraging cultural enrichment or actively working to make it happen and then get upset when it is different to what they have in their delusion.
If she is not in favour of diversity then what has she done to counter it or why does she live where cultural enrichment is prevalent?
Don't you mean ..."cultural enrichment"... ? Or, weren't you trying to be ironic ?
@@MartinParsons-tr6wi Seems UA-cam did not like my reply confirming my devotion to diversity. Yes I was being ironic and meant "cultural enrichment."
@@inthegutterstaringathestars Disguised irony as an anti censorship vehicle. ( ! - ) Cunning . Kudos. Like the moniker too, dude
Life sentence for robbery. LOL. Was this bloke a senior copper???
if there is a weapon involved.. you can get a life sentence...
doubt it these days though.. probably need 50 previous convictions...
She was so unaware of her surroundings that she didn't know what was happening to her, why would anyone else realise what was happening her?
The crowds have not returned to Oxford Street since lockdown ended, so there probably wasn't that much people around when she was attacked.
I wonder what the Perpetrator looked like?
Government needs to be held responsible
This has been the case for the last 6 plus years….
Glad the media has noticed 🙄
I was going to go to London for my birthday but then I remembered why I left!
Thanks Blair/Khan.
"You dont think you have to be on your guard"
She was in LONDON, do you not watch the news?!?!?!
All over London, most come on bikes with masks on
A friend of mine was robbed at knife point in London and people just walked around them
Avoid the hoodies and the puffa jackets with machete hidden underneath teenagers.
That guy seems to be more concerned if the phone was ‘open’. Alex must have noticed what shade that little was. Three guesses.
And what are we doing by ensuring kids are disciplined properly at schools for inappropriate behaviour? How many kids get violent but are then allowed straight back into the classroom?
Sadly this is the norm in London and most likely anywhere else in this country.
The changes we are seeing in our towns and cities over the last 2 years is imported and if we say anything about it we are regarded as criminals not the perpetrators
No point in helping, youd get arrested for restricting the offenders human rights...so why bother.
I don’t live in London but in the northwest of England and our local ‘useless blue line’ are telling people not to go out in expensive coats, or with expensive phones etc….
It’s like “A clockwork orange” ………the dystopian future is here 😫
We predicted it was going to get worse but they called us far right, why not have more under cover cops on bikes
If he didn’t get anything then technically she wasn’t mugged.
Well done mainstream media for not mentioning the ethnicity of the mugger.
Nobody batted an eyelid, no wonder.
Remember the man driving home from work, he saw a woman being punched on a bridge, stopped his car and came to her defense.
Of course, the attacker turned on the Good Samaritan, thus the Good Samaritan threw one punch. Unfortunately, the attacker died from said punch. The Crown Attorney's Office assessed the Good Samaritan didn't have to punch so hard (easy to 2nd guess when he wasn't at the scene) and charged the man with manslaughter.
Good Samaritan was convicted and is now serving a 7 year sentence in a British jail.
So when she says "no one batted an eyelid" this is one powerful reason why. Get involved and you may end up incarcerated and whether you think it's wrong is immaterial. If Crown Attorney wants to charge you, you're out of luck.
I will step in and defend a woman if she's a relative or family friend. But a stranger? If the laws don't change the risks are simply too high. CHANGE THE LAWS!!!!!!!