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On the 15th of March, 2004, 15-year-old schoolboy Kriss Donald was murdered in Pollockshields, Glasgow.
Kriss was out walking with his friend Jamie Wallace when five or six Asians leapt out of a Mercedes, attacked them both, dragged Kris into the car, and drove off.
As Jamie escaped, he heard one the kidnappers say:
"You'll be next".
Zahid Mohammed told the court that he and his Asian friends drove around the Pollokshields area of Glasgow looking for anyone young and white. One of them said they would "chop them up and take their eyes out and stab them".
As soon as they chanced upon Kriss and Jamie, they jumped out of the car and began to beat them up.
Advocate deputy, Mark Stewart, asked Mohammed, if it was it an Asian boy, a Chinese boy, a black boy they sought? Mohammed replied:
"A white boy".
Kris was taken on a 200-mile journey before returning to Glasgow. The car drew up on waste ground behind the Celtic Supporters Club in the east end of the city.
Kris, who was described in court as a defenceless, young, slightly built schoolboy who experienced 'extreme terror' before he died, was then beaten again, stabbed 13 times and, after petrol was poured over him, set on fire.
Forensic pathologist, Dr. Marjorie Black, said that Kriss may have been held down over a log as he was stabbed.
His badly burned and naked body was found the following morning by a man who thought it was an animal's carcass.
Two days after Kriss's death the police said it was still too early to say if the murder was racially motivated.
Four day's after his death the BBC said:
"Strathclyde police have played down suggestions the killing was racial".
Mohammed Sarwar, MP for Glasgow Govan, acknowledged that there had been problems in the area six months before, but said:
"We have to be very cautious that we don't allow the BNP and other right-wing organisations to exploit this tragedy".
Local businessman, Jamshaid Raja, said:
"It was not an Asian on white attack, those thugs would carry out the same act on an Asian person".
Gordon Jackson, the Member of the Scottish Parliament with responsibility for the area where Kriss was killed, stated that young men got into "bother" from time to time in every city. He warned against any speculation that there was a racial motive to the incident in an area with a "substantial" Asian population and added:
"What I do not want to do is put down young men's behaviour to a race problem. I am horrified that all of a sudden people want to suggest that is what it is about and that is a problem".
Hanif Rajah, of the Pakistan Forum Scotland, told BBC Scotland that he did not believe it was a racist crime, adding:
"I think the trouble... is a gang fight among youths. It is not a racially motivated killing".
However, at the High Court in Glasgow, the jury took just two-and-a-quarter hours to find Daanish Zahid guilty by a unanimous verdict of the charges of racially-aggravated murder. He was jailed for life.
Zahid Mohammed, who admitted abducting Kriss, was jailed for five years.
Warrants were issued for Imran Shahid, Zeeshan Shahid and Mohammed Mustaq, who were incriminated in court by Zahid and Mohammed. These three fled to Pakistan immediately after Kriss was killed. The Strathclyde Police applied to the Home and Foreign Offices for help in extraditing Shadid and co. at this point.
These applications were turned down.
One police source admitted:
"We have encountered serious problems with our attempts to seek extradition for these suspects and it has caused a great deal of frustration among the officers involved in the case".
Despite these "problems", in July, 2005, Zeeshan Shahid and Mohammed Mustaq were detained by the police in a village near Faisalabad in central Pakistan. Imran Shaid was arrested a few days later in the city of Lahore.
As far as I know they have not, as yet, been returned to Scotland.
Nowadays, if a five-strong gang from a minority community murder a white boy from the majority community in cold blood, it's just "young men's behaviour", it's a bit of "bother", it's "a gang fight among youths".
The one thing it most certainly can never be is "a racially motivated killing", or a "a race problem", and we must all do our politically correct bit to "play down suggestions the killing was racial".
If, however, a five-strong gang of white youths were to murder a black or an Asian youth, it's banner headlines in The Guardian, it's politicians on the bandwagon, it's questions in Parliament, it's "institutional racism" and it is The McPherson Report.
It is also a remorseless 12-year media and parliamentary campaign to demonise the fundamentally law abiding majority, for the benefit and encouragement of the comparatively lawless, irresponsible and destructive minorities.
All you wonderful, kind, tolerant, decent, honourable, fair-minded British people, please,
Do me this one favour.
For once, just once,
Put yourselves first.
In the land where all your ancestors are buried, for once in your life look out for yourselves, your family, your neighbourhood, your village, your town, your culture, your society, your tribe, your people, your country.
You gave almost everything away that your ancestors fought and died and sacrificed so much for, you really did.
So, now that you're in a bit of a fix, now that you are the underdog in your own land, now that there are more than 100 organisations in this country devoted to the welfare of the criminally inclined and just a couple which seek to assist the victim, do you think that those to whom you gave so much might just give a bit of it back?
Silly question really.
This is Kriss alongside Daanish Zaahid and Zahid Mohammed, two of the Asian animals that tortured and killed him BECAUSE HE WAS WHITE!

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