Does anyone know what has happened at the gatehouse to the General Cemetery (off Cemetery Rd nr Ecclesall Road), it was all cordoned off by police this morning around 8:15am.
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Originally posted by Bandylegs I don't know if this is connected but BBC Radio Sheffield says there was a man robbed at knife point on Frog Walk last night.
Did the police find the man and frog-march him from Frog Walk? Or maybe it was Radio Sheffield producers looking for more listeners: You have to be dead to listen to that tiresome drivel.
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Originally posted by Bandylegs I don't know if this is connected but BBC Radio Sheffield says there was a man robbed at knife point on Frog Walk last night.
i'm not sure...i wanted to ask the police man but i thought it just seemed too nosey. i walked down frog walk this morning so sure it wouldn't have been that. thanks anyway.
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My thoughts were the same but then I wondered if the Police thought the miscreants legged it over the wall into the cemetery in order to make good their escape. (It would make more sense than running back up Frog Walk!)
I was half expecting someone to say the police had found a body in the cemetery...
It was still cornered off this morning when I left for uni at 11pm. In the learning centre late last night some lad came in telling his friends how he had been mugged so it may be these people were operating all night
Im sorry for what happened to the poor girl and i hope they catch them but is she stupid for walking through there at that time of night, there are some situations you just don't put yourself in and a girl walking through a graveyard in the middle of the night is one of them!!!
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i knid of agree. i have thought sometimes whilst watching horror films "you just wouldn't go into the house if the door was open", but maybe you would. If you arrived home and your door was ajar i wouldn't call 999 staright away.
But yes. Just looking at that cemetery at night scares me.
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Actually maybe it wasnt like that. It was only the area near the gatehouse that was taped off. The rest of the cemetery was walkable. So maybe she was near the gatehouse, possibly even about to walk up the alley and got dragged in.
This is awful.
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Police are looking for witnesses to a robbery in a Sheffield street.
The incident happened in Frog Walk, between Cemetery Road and Ecclesall Road at around 11.30pm yesterday, Monday 14 March.
A 20 year old man was walking along Frog Walk when two men approached him. One man threatened him with a knife and he was forced to hand over his mobile phone, cash and jewellery.
The victim managed to escape shortly after this was he has been left very shaken and upset by the ordeal.
The two offenders ran off towards Ecclesall Road.
The man with the knife is described as black, 6'1" to 6'2" tall, 18 to 19 years, thin build, wearing a white hooded topand dark coloured jeans.
The second man is described as white, 5'8" tall, 17 to 18 years, podgy build wearing a dark coloured raincoat tied at the hood.
Anyone with information, please contact Woodseats CID on 0114 2963603
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the Feminist in me, is saying "blow that for a game of soldiers!!! anyone should be able to walk down any street, at any time, without having to live with the fear of, or the reality of, being attacked."
The Realist in me says that "We HAVE to keep our wits about us, no matter what, because there are opportunists who will chance an attack, or robbery, if they think they can get away with it".
It's dreadful for the poor woman who was attacked. we don't know exactly what happened, as yet, nor do we know whether it was a random assault on her, as someone simply taking a short cut, or whether it was someone escorting her through the cemetery, and who decided to attack her in the seclusion, there.
Whatever happened, I hope that she is going to be ok, and that any injuries are not severe.
Scottf.... I disagree that the woman was "stupid". if she was walking through the graveyard alone, at that time of night, it was, perhaps, a *misjudgement*, on her part, but whatever the circumstances, a person should be free from the threat, or perceived threat, of attack, wherever they are.
The attitude that some people show on this (with their comments, similar to yours) is teetering *very* close to the edge of the "she deserved it... " line... no one deserves to be attacked (I'm using that as a euphemism for rape, as I assume that this is the nature of the attack on her.) no matter what the circumstances, no matter where they chose to walk, or who they chose to walk with... and however they were dressed (whether weaing a nun's habit, or a pelmet-short skirt), or how drunk or sober they were or were not... no -one has the right to violate another person.
(sorry, I will step down, off my soapbox, now... "Next!"
Originally posted by Plain Talker Scottf.... I disagree that the woman was "stupid". if she was walking through the graveyard alone, at that time of night, it was, perhaps, a *misjudgement*, on her part, but whatever the circumstances, a person should be free from the threat, or perceived threat, of attack, wherever they are.
The attitude that some people show on this (with their comments, similar to yours) is teetering *very* close to the edge of the "she deserved it... " line... no one deserves to be attacked (I'm using that as a euphemism for rape, as I assume that this is the nature of the attack on her.) no matter what the circumstances, no matter where they chose to walk, or who they chose to walk with... and however they were dressed (whether weaing a nun's habit, or a pelmet-short skirt), or how drunk or sober they were or were not... no -one has the right to violate another person.
(sorry, I will step down, off my soapbox, now... "Next!"
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Yes ok, i get what your saying but no matter how much we say we SHOULD be able to walk anywhere we want, when we want, we all need to use a bit of common sense, especially at night!
I used the wrong word when i said stupid- i should have said naive, because everyone- be it man or woman needs to use a bit of common sense.
I hope they catch these persons as this is next to where my girlfriend lives.
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