Police have attempted to defuse tensions ignited by the death of an intruder in south-east London amid an ongoing struggle over flower tributes which his family have placed at the scene but which have repeatedly been torn down. However, the few residents who were prepared to speak as they passed the scene said they were unaware of any such protest. In at least one of the cases where the tributes to Vincent were torn down, the person responsible said he had come from another part of London to do so. On Wednesday, a local resident pulled down the flowers, shouting: “These are scumbags, scumbags, scumbags. Mackey said: “Laying flowers is not a crime.”“We want those laying flowers to respect the local people and the impact on them.

Source: The Guardian April 12, 2018 08:48 UTC