Talk:Farzad Bazoft
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Building Society Robbery
Didn't this person rob a building society in the UK? Why is it not mentioned in the article?
3.90: Iraq arrests and later executes British journalist Farzad Bazoft, after he investigated explosions in a factory near Baghdad thought to be manufacturing missiles. Initially the British Evening Standard newspaper called for a breaking off of relations with "…this stupid and brutal regime." But 24 hours after Bazoft was hung, The Sun newspaper led with a story reportedly provided by Ml5: "HANGED MAN WAS A ROBBER." As a student ten years earlier, Bazoft had stolen £500 from a building society. The Sunday Telegraph newspaper ran an article, questioning journalistic integrity under the headline: "WHEN INNOCENCE CAN EQUAL GUILT."
Bjddavies2006 07:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- "The Sun newspaper led with a story reportedly provided by Ml5: "HANGED MAN WAS A ROBBER." As a student ten years earlier, Bazoft had stolen £500 from a building society."
- Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. I'm not sure it's entirely relevant to anything. Or do we now enter every detail, of every criminal record, on every biographical article? Anyhow, the above link is 'heresay', it simply repeats what someone else (The Sun) might, or might not, have printed 17 years ago.
- I think a better reference would be required to enter the information into the article, if there were any point in doing so. Stephenjh 08:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Web references for things that happened pre-1998 are hard to come by. That was the best I could find. The only hard and fast way would be to find a microfilm of the local Brackley newspaper (Brackley, Northamptonshire was the town where he robbed the building society). Finding a web reference for a minor (from a national point of view anyway) incident that happened in 1981 would be well nigh impossible.
I think he was given an easy ride by the press of the day, being that he was a journalist and all. From my recollection the excuse given was that he was a hard up student and needed the money.
My point is that he was already a felon in the UK did not help gain the sympathy of the British people and the fact that he did undercover work in one of the most authoritarian regimes of the world (also a felony I believe) was an act of extreme stupidity for which he paid with his life.
I found this article on Bazoft from the Margaret Thatcher article. I am sure that the Thatcher cabinet were aware of his past felony when they were making the decisions on what to do to help him.
Bjddavies2006 21:28, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
