Bizarre. Wonder if he thought he was going to Forest Gate, amusingly. He’d be the only person outside London who’s ever heard of FH (seemingly) if he came here deliberately, so I can only presume he drove until he got bored, and just happened to stop in a district where there isn’t a mosque for a fair distance. Ha.
Forest Hill: frustrating homicidal bigots since 2017!
I think our nearest one is in Peckham on Choumert Road. Good thing the person he asked didn’t know that as that is on a fairly narrow residential street so the damage could have been a lot worse.
“There are no mosques in the area” - that is always the correct response to somebody driving a large van. The same applies to synagogues, churches, schools, etc.
I looked last night when I first saw this story - Lewisham, next to the Shell garage opposite the Catford end of the hospital.
‘…and I shall be taking down your registration number and calling the police…’ would be part of the A* answer, but you can’t win em all with hindsight.
Maybe he thought he would follow in the footsteps of the man who welded a knife looking to kill Muslims on a train in Forest Hill and thought the place had some significance. Prime reason why I rarely wear a headscarf out these days.
Fair point, though I doubt he follows the news that closely.
Nice to see the amount of time he got.