Hassan Ali - cared too much

HASSAN Ali had been knocked down earlier this week, seriously injured and died early Friday. The complaints against him allegedly in relation to the Rotherham paedophile scandal, were known of by a section of the press yet they chose to publish the accusat

Reporters knew about these complaints long ago but Hassan Ali was quite literally being lowered into his grave when the story splashed across SKY TV headlines. This was in my view gutter press journalism at its disrespectful heartless worst, it risks destroying a good man’s reputation and turning his sad death into a racist subject.

On any complaint against the police, investigations into the relevant officer have to be made and if warranted, that officer WILL be suspended from duty. Contrary to a popular misconception that the police “look after their own”, they certainly they do not! The truth is that until any complaint is proved, then the officer is put through hell and literally thrown to the lions by efficient yet cold uncaring investigating officers, so why didn’t PC Ali get suspended, continuing to work in close contact to the public?

The police gave him a guard of honour at his funeral, would they have done this for a man accused of unspeakable crimes likely to bring the police into disrepute?

Hassan Ali, was a man who epitomises the true values of the Muslim faith. He was very caring, happy and content always extremely respectful to everyone with a big beaming smile. He was enormously respected and loved by a great many people of all races colours and creeds. He was kind, gentle and caring. He was an efficient skilful police officer.

I have known ‘H’ for about 20 years and personally I find it hard to believe any impropriety by him. If guilty of anything it was of caring far too much and it may be that his caring led him into an area of his work that is being subjected to severe unprecedented sensationalist attention and scrutiny by headline grabbing solicitors seeking damages for clients and headline grabbing journalists looking for the big story.

Hassan Ali was too innocent, too caring and nice for his own good I think and himself became a victim of the bloodletting that is now being demanded where anyone’s blood will do. Certainly he was not a paedophile as seems to be being alleged. No one knows what truly happened, we now have just one side of events, so will we ever get the truth now he is dead? H has become a very easy target and I wonder how many more will surface to make a ‘complaint’ against him now he cannot defend himself. Seems no one has any respect for the dead anymore.

Malcolm Hannan, Rotherham