Avocado on Lam

Who says they can't assimilate?

Within a day of being "accidentally released" from HMS Chelmsford, famous Ethiopian sex offender Hadush Kebatu had exchanged the clear plastic bag he was discharged with to a distinctive avocado bag. That bag was what helped passerby to identify him in Finsbury Park where he was picked up by police on Sunday.

Readers may recall Kebatu had arrived via small boat just days before he ran into two girls having pizza on a town center bench. After they offered him a piece of pizza, he asked "do you want to come to the Bell Hotel to have babies?" before assaulting them.

Mark's description of the scene upon his initial arrest earlier this year:

a week of sustained mass protests outside the Bell Hotel in Epping has just led a generally craven and pusillanimous council to vote for its closure.

Even Kemi Badenoch - leader of the "Conservative" Party, for those who've never heard of her - has been minded to make a rare intervention on something that actually matters, and join the calls for the tolling of the Bell. That's unusual - because, if you watch "mainstream" telly, as Kemi does, the aggrieved mums who don't want their daughters raped are all far-right racists who are irredeemably migrantphobic...