RIP Tom Maynard

[wpdavid]

To be fair to the Mail (that's a sentence I never thought I'd write), the Scum have also led with the pic. Clearly the most important part of the story.

Our Tabloid press, it's really something to be proud of.

To which list you can add the local London paper 'The Standard', who also felt that his model girlfriend was the key issue. Another obscenely right wing rag, for those who aren't familiar with it.

 

[Cevno]

Absolutely tragic news. RIP.

 

[Cevno]

And wrt The Daily Mail, they are pretty much carrying that pic and others in every story about this tragic incident. Shameful really.


Have taken it a step further and are carrying 3 pics of his girlfriend in this -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...igate-fled-car-dead.html?ICO=most_read_module

 

[hazsa19]

This sounds like a ****-up on the police's part, I know details are sketchy but eh.

Clearly he was on some kind of drug and not in a normal state of mind. Cant help but feel the police might've prevented this.

Anyway RIP, this is horrible

Any excuse to knock the police



RIP

 

[uvelocity]

sorry to bring the daily mail into it. The reason I posted the story was it mentioned he stepped on a live track, which was the reason stated that the train struck him. The first thing I thought of was he was wandering around or fell, perhaps intoxicated, or suicide even. Being incapacitated by electric shock doesn't explain why he went there, but probably rules out suicide at least.

I hope that post is alright, I'm not trying to cast aspersions.

 

[Son Of Coco]

sorry to bring the daily mail into it. The reason I posted the story was it mentioned he stepped on a live track, which was the reason stated that the train struck him. The first thing I thought of was he was wandering around or fell, perhaps intoxicated, or suicide even. Being incapacitated by electric shock doesn't explain why he went there, but probably rules out suicide at least.

I hope that post is alright, I'm not trying to cast aspersions.

Form what I've read it sounded like the police attempted to pull him over due to the vehicle being driven erratically, he jumped out and ran off, and then they found him on the tracks later on. If all this is true, then you'd assume he cut across the tracks when he was running away and got electrocuted.

As for it being the police's fault for not preventing it, as someone else suggested, I can only assume that post was a joke.

 

[Chubb]

The Mail takes the prize for me because the Sun knows that it's a paper for morons. The Daily Mail is supposed to be a serious paper.

No, the Mail pretends to be a serious paper. Read Flat Earth News and you'll find out a hell of a lot about it and the way it operates. It does not make pretty reading.

I was shocked to hear of Maynard's death. RIP.

 

[screamingfields]

RIP Tom Maynard.

 

[theegyptian]

inquest into his death happening at the moment.

'A post-mortem examination showed he was nearly four times the legal alcohol limit to drive and had also taken cocaine and ecstasy in the form of MDMA after a night out with his two flatmates in Wandsworth, south London'

'Tests on hair samples indicted Mr Maynard, who had previously played for Glamorgan and was tipped as a future England international, may have been a regular drug user up to three and half months before his death, the inquest heard.'

BBC News - Train death cricketer Tom Maynard was 'high on drugs'


Says a lot about the piss poor drug testing in cricket. Also possibly a failure by his club and friends to see he had a problem.

 

[Mr_Ronan]

Jeezus he was off his face. What a sad end.

Raises questions about how a coke addict can not be caught out by drug testing.

Dernbach and the former Surrey captain both claimed they had no idea he was taking coke. It's hard to believe Maynard was addicted to powder and neither of them had any clue, particularly the latter given they lived together.

Anyway, inquests like this are always murky and depressing.

 

[Pothas]

Yeah it is a worry, have no idea how stringent drugs tests are in county cricket.

Guess we can't be sure how big a problem he had either, was certainly not effecting his form at the time.

 

[uvelocity]

you'd be surprised how widespread it is

 

[James]

I've just deleted your post Riggins, please don't make comments such as that.

 

[Riggins]

why not?

 

[Spikey]

uh cause you could get james sued.