Are we allowed to feel pure, cold rage yet? It’s what millions of us felt this morning as we watched footage of that barbarous assault in Belfast. However much the pleb-fearing thoughtpolice of Keir Starmer’s government might disapprove of such fury, it’s the emotion that swelled in all decent British and Irish people as they saw a brute rain stab after stab upon his sprawled, struggling victim. Good luck trying to curb the people’s rage over this act of wanton savagery.
It was truly obscene. On a dimly lit nighttime street in north Belfast, a kind of medieval butchery unfolded. A local man in his 40s was mercilessly pinned down by the knifeman. Each plunge of the knife was coldly, cruelly executed. The monster went for the man’s face, his neck, his back. The police announced this morning that the victim suffered ‘significant injuries to his eyes’. Was this an attempted eye-gouging? In the United Kingdom in 2026? Some are calling it an attempted beheading. Whichever it was, we now know the early media reports about a ‘knife incident’ were shamefully euphemistic, dolling up a monstrous atrocity in the garb of everyday crime.
Then came the most salient revelation, the one that imbued this feral exhibition of violence with political urgency – the suspect is Sudanese. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) tried to get the details out quickly, clearly having learned how much it riles the public when the truth about barbaric violence is withheld from us on the grounds that we’re too dumb and racist to handle it. The suspect is in his 30s, he seems to be from Sudan, and he got to Northern Ireland via Dublin. Oh, and he was granted leave to remain.
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