An evil menace lurks hidden in the city?
‘I work in Birmingham where there are more canals than Venice. You very rarely hear of bodies of young men being washed up in the city’s water ways.
‘To have so many in Manchester is a big concern and there is every chance foul play is at hand here.’
In 27 of the 61 cases, the bodies had been so damaged by the water that police were unable to even identify their biological sex. ..'
'If five murders is the current record of homophobic deaths, even 10 percent of the 61 would be an abominable record.’
Police inspector Phil Spurgeon said, ‘The reality is when you have a busy city, a vibrant night-time economy, you’ve 500 licensed premises in 2.2 square miles, you put a big canal system through the middle of that and you are going to end up with fatalities, which is dreadful.’
As well as 61 bodies discovered in Manchester’s canals, over 20 more have been found in local rivers....'
'Local bartender Stephen Faulkner told The Independent that #thepusher may actually be an opportunistic street robber: ‘You get people who’ve been drinking and if someone wants their wallet, they’ll get pushed in. I do believe people are being pushed in to the water.’
Worrying patterns
Suki Deen, a research scientist who has looked at the case, said, ‘There are worrying patterns with regard to the age groups, how the bodies are disposed of and what the missing men had been doing.‘Those listed as committing suicide had picked things up earlier the same day, like shoes or money or had bought meals to eat when they got home – strange behaviour if you are planning to kill yourself.’
'From August 2010 to August 2011, 18 fatalities occurred in Manchester’s waterways – comprising a third of the 59 incidents recorded nationwide.
Prof Jackson went on: ‘The police say none of the 61 corpses found got there under suspicious circumstances. Not one? I find that very hard to believe.
‘The other odd fact here is that the majority of the bodies have not been identified or even given a gender on official police records.
‘Were the corpses so decomposed as to be unidentifiable? Again, I find that inconceivable and a pathologist would tell you the same.’...
http://vadamagazine.com/13/01/2015/news/gay-slayer-stalking-manchesters-canals
'And in May 2013, Martin-Smith publically declared that he would not consider paying a late night levy on the nightspot, proposed by the Council to tackle trouble hotspots that stayed open after midnight, because he already paid £3k a month in council tax and hardly ever saw any police around the Canal Street area.
'The move by the Council was a reaction to escalating crime figures in the area. In 2012, the Village had 1,316 individual police call-outs, compared with 675 at the Printworks and 527 on Deansgate Locks.
The Village remains the highest ranked out of 67 North Manchester districts for instances of theft and assault. Twice as high as the second ranking district of Arndale and King Street.
Given the built-in attractiveness of the area - no other city centre district has that sweep of waterside terraces with a park over the road - this is troubling and hard-to-explain except with reference to the direction many of the establishments have chosen to take. What it leads to though is lack of confidence.
A prominent city-centre bar owner who wished to remain unnamed told us they’d never consider occupying the now empty space at Queer: “Rents are too high and it’s not worth the trouble. The Village has got too many problems at the moment. It’s as simple as that.”
http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/News/Queer-Bar-Closed-Canal-Street-Manchester-Essential
Other links.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/manchester-canal-deaths-spark-killer-speculation-191956889.html#h5qcEAP
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article4322602.ece
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/419484/Sixty-one-people-have-died-mysteriously-in-Manchester-s-waterways
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2444290/Simon-Brass-death-thugs-mugged-man-iPhone-threw-Manchester-canal.html
'..dubbed "The Pusher" by some on social media -- shoving the victims into the water.
The Manchester deaths compare
with just 32 accidental or natural deaths and seven suspected suicides
in canals and aqueducts across the whole of Britain in 2013, according
to figures compiled by the National Water Safety Forum...'
'Some have put the number of
deaths, at least in the city centre, down to the renovation of the
canalside areas which brought bars and clubs close to the water's edge.
"There is a pattern in the city centre with people drinking too much and then falling in the canal," police Chief Constable Peter Fahy warned in 2012.
The local authority intends to fence off part of the canal known as the Undercroft at night, following a spate of deaths and violent robberies...'
http://rt.com/uk/222655-serial-killer-manchester-canals/
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/the-pusher-professor-stands-canal-8450695
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2908226/Is-serial-killer-stalking-Manchester-s-canals-60-bodies-pulled-region-s-waterways-just-six-years-murderer-large-says-professor.html
I
was nearly push in by a gang of lads in the canal in ancoats.just being
in touch with the police,but didnt seem intrested in what happen to
me....as they all they can do is put it down as assult.....but this was
in the day time and was with a m8.and i do think if i would of being on
my own and was unable to swim I could of drown,they did look like the
sort that would dive in to save me,
http://news.sky.com/story/1407851/serial-killer-claim-over-61-manchester-deaths
http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/11/a-killer-could-be-on-the-loose-in-manchester-after-61-bodies-pulled-from-canal-in-just-6-years-5018188/
'At the inquest into his death, the coroner was unable to return a verdict about Mr Brahney’s cause of death.
In another mysterious case, Canadian tourist Anthony Muise, 53, was found in a canal in 2010, having suffered a puncture wound to the chest.'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/academic-raises-fears-of-serial-killer-after-61-deaths-on-manchester-canal-network-9973702.html
https://twitter.com/hashtag/thepusher
http://markfromwarrington.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/manchester-canal-deaths-too-many-too.html?spref=tw
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