Black murdered in racist attack

Press, 25 June 1981, Page 6

Black murdered in racist attack

NZPA London A Nigerian-born black who was stabbed to death by three white youths in south London at the week-end was the victim of a racial killing and the latest in a string of attacks on non-whites, the police 1 say. “It would be foolish to believe that this callous, brutal murder was anything other than a racial attack,” Detective Chief Superintend-, ent Peter Bradbury told reporters.

Fenton Isiah Ogbogo, aged 25, was murdered in a fish restaurant in Peckham on Saturday night about ah.hour after 500 mainly black youngsters rampaged through the area. They attacked the police, smashed shop windows, and looted several stores. The police made 30 arrests.

The Ogbogo killing kept racial tension in London high following last April’s four nights of rioting in the black centre of London's mixed Brixton district., .

Mr 1 Bradbury disclosed that there had been other racial attacks by young whites, including the stabbing of another young black who was admitted to hospital with serious injuries last week.

A 50-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Mian Azim, was stabbed to death in the south London district of Wandsworth three weeks ago. Friends said he had been threatened with death by the ultra-Rightist National Front, but the police declined comment.

Two Asians, one a 40-year-old doctor, have been killed in the Midlands city of Coventry in recent weeks amid growing racial hostility in the area.

The police also have reported arson attacks on Asian places of worship in the city, homes, and clubs in recent weeks. The Govern-ment-funded Community Relations Council reported 55 serious attacks on non-whites between February and niid.June. .