Atrocious victim support in London..

[tingnting]

I was stabbed in the chest on the 2nd May 2006 & as a result have lost everything that i had worked for over 20 years.. The date today is March 9th 2007 & i have just recieved my first letter from victim liasion/support...It has taken the 'so called people who give a ****' almost a year to be bothered to get in contact with me..

The after effects that victims, like myself, struggle with are only made worse by shabby, couldn't careless people who work in the field of victim support.. I have been given a scrap piece of paper & half a dozen questions on how my life has been affected since.. Is that it..?? I haven't 'liased' with anyone or had support from anyone..I can only speak of the piss-poor attitude of these paid liasion officers here in Central London, so please if there is anyone else who has suffered similar atrocious 'support' say so on this thread... Thank you..

[Daz]

Well if you don't care about anyone else, don't be surprised when they don't treat you with respect. That's all I have to say.

[Serious]

maybe this is none of my business but that reply makes no sense
what difference does it make what a victim thinks or feels or believes
ain't it supposed to be fair and equal support for all
and ain't there any time constraints where things are supposed to be taken care of in a tmely way
maybe it's being from here but
I agee with a friggin year being a long ass wait for what amounts to nothing
and if it's OK to ask
can't you sue for what you lost?
what made you lose everything?
can't you sue like these Goldmans did to OJ Simpson?
he wasn't found guilty but they got some judgement

[Daz]

The point I was trying to make Serious was that people in victim support jobs are often in ****ty jobs, they have a lot of issues themselves.

So it's understandable I think that they are reluctant sometimes to respond quickly to someone in need, unless there is something in it for them.

[tingnting]

maybe this is none of my business but that reply makes no sense
what difference does it make what a victim thinks or feels or believes
ain't it supposed to be fair and equal support for all
and ain't there any time constraints where things are supposed to be taken care of in a tmely way
maybe it's being from here but
I agee with a friggin year being a long ass wait for what amounts to nothing
and if it's OK to ask
can't you sue for what you lost?
what made you lose everything?
can't you sue like these Goldmans did to OJ Simpson?
he wasn't found guilty but they got some judgement

The guy who did this to me has no money or assets what so ever, so to ty & sue him would be pointless.. I have however required the services of a Lawyer & will be chasing substantial compensation.. the reason why i lost 'everything' was that my job was as a self-employed Personal Trainer & due to the severe injuies that i recieved, it was impossible to return to work for many months..In the mean-time, i did lose many of my clients..

[concern_citizen]

Sorry to hear that you have to wait for so long before you get compensated and for losing some of your clients. All I can say is just be patient and dont ever give up. If you are really good in what you do then you will get new
clients once you fully recover from your injuries.

[Serious]

over here in things like that
you get trained at something else to make a living and get money until things are close to what they were
that's when the criminal has nothing too
only a matter of where the payback comes from

[concern_citizen]

I'm not really sure of what are you trying to imply....

[Daz]

I think he's trying to say that some people in life get opportunities to make money, but criminals don't get those opportunities. So the criminal sees people with money as the enemy.

Fair point, I'd say.

[Serious]

I'm saying here in the US
there's Social Security disability benefits that pay out to people who can't work
the government pays it
if you can't sue somebody for loss of earnings then you could at least still get compensation here
if somebody over here gets stabbed and they can't work there's two things..you can carry personal insurance that pays you when you're out of work and there's SS Disability you can put claim in for
They have programs here that will give you a new carreer that will pay you what you're used to getting too for when you can't go back to your old job

sounds like it sucks over there if you can't cover your own ass

[concern_citizen]

In fairness to UK gov't you dont know what is the system in UK but I'm pretty sure they do have organization like social services and other services that provides disability benefits as well. You cannot (SERIOUS) just jump into conclusion that UK doesnt have disability compensation unless you have proofs that they dont. Maybe in third world country it will be quite difficult to provide help because the gov't doesnt have resources to use but I doubt that it does happen in UK....That is not fair for people who have money, like you or other members of this forum who work hard to earn good money for criminals to think that they are the enemy its a case to case basis situation.

[Jason]

This is definitely wrong, the system should not take this long,
I wonder why people say “not to bother when crime takes place”

I just wanted to know why so long? Is there any backlog of cases?
no man power to solve these cases or its just the lazy people work over there? Any ideas?

[concern_citizen]

It is very sad that the people who runs the system fails to provide assistance staright away but that is why we should not give up because if you do then wrong tihings will continue to happen.

[tingnting]

This is definitely wrong, the system should not take this long,
I wonder why people say “not to bother when crime takes place”

I just wanted to know why so long? Is there any backlog of cases?
no man power to solve these cases or its just the lazy people work over there? Any ideas?


There must be a reason behind the concept of employing such inadequate people to deal with these tasks.. I believe that Jason has a valid point, indicating that people give up on trying to claim what's rightfully theirs because of all the stress that it entails.. victim liasion arranged an appointment with me months ago & then decided to cancel the appointment 30 minutes before they were due to turn up with a whole host of lame excuses..

[Jason]

May be Government purposely don’t care of this delays, b’coz they have to pay you at the end as compensation.

If it’s more delayed there are possibilities that you will give up in chasing, therefore it’s an advantage to the Gov.

Or they really don’t have enough funds allocated for that particular year so they just delay the case for the next year where they will allocate the money for you.

For whatever reason, this delays should be changed!! you should get it with out a delay!!

"I hope BBC or news papers will read this thread and put a line on the news giving a Warning message to the gov."

[concern_citizen]

That is why I keep on encouraging tingnting not to give up and continue to chase what is rightfully his and maybe go to the newspaper or media it might help instead of just giving up and be quiet the more you make noise the more you will be heard

[tingnting]

On that note cc... i was talking with my Solicitor just now & she was hoping that everything could be finalised by July '07.. I'll believe it when i see it.. I asked about the sum of money which i'll most likely get & she indicated anywhere betwee £25-£45K, which does seem a large amount.. But i can tell you all, that this has not been worth it.. I don't think there is any amount of money that could compensate what i've had to go through..

[concern_citizen]

Well that's nice to hear that you havent given up and good news that hopefully everything will go well. You are right not any amount of money can compensate what you have been through but i hope that you will be able to move on and start a new life with your kid.

[bwilsonwriter]

Sorry to hear that you have to wait for so long before you get compensated and for losing some of your clients. All I can say is just be patient and dont ever give up. If you are really good in what you do then you will get new
clients once you fully recover from your injuries.

That is what I am talking about never give up because someday you will get yours and also the justice that you deserve.