Updated: 5 May 2021, 8:35
A GOOD Samaritan in his 30s has been stabbed to death after trying to help another man.
The victim was attacked in Laindon, Essex, at 9.30pm on Sunday and three boys and two girls, aged between 13 and 16, have been arrested.
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Essex Police said the man was going to the aid of another victim in LaindonCredit: UkNewsinPictures
Cops have said the victim was killed “going to the aid of another man” leaving a “family broken apart”.
He was found with stab wounds and died at the scene despite the efforts by paramedics.
Detective Chief Superintendent Steve Jennings, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: “Our enquiries have led us to believe the victim was going to the aid of another man.
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Nick Bramall gives a mirthless laugh. The murky politics and contradictions of policing have long failed to surprise the son of Field Marshal Lord Bramall MC. But they still appal him. ‘It’s too late for Dad and the other victims, of course,’ he says.
‘Steve Rodhouse has never apologised to us, but he must know what is coming now. He was the man in charge and he should take the rap. I just find it very odd that despite him being involved in so many fiascos, he kept getting promoted.’
So many fiascos? This is a story in which failure apparently breeds success. Almost five years have passed since Operation Midland, the Metropolitan Police’s calamitous investigation into allegations of a VIP sex abuse ring made by an NHS manager called Carl Beech aka ‘Nick’ was officially closed down. On that day, March 21, 2016, the then Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner (DAC) Rodhouse, who had overall control of Midland, declared: ‘I haven’t seen any evidence to prove that an