Today we remember Kriss Donald, an innocent 15-year-old Scottish boy who was brutally kidnapped and murdered.
Kriss was abducted from the street in broad daylight by a gang of five men of Pakistani origin, targeted explicitly because he was a white teenager from the area. The attack was racially motivated. He was stabbed repeatedly, doused in petrol while still alive and set on fire in a savage act that highlighted the reality of anti-white racial violence.
In stark contrast to cases where families of victims from other backgrounds have received high-profile honours, like peerages in the House of Lords. His grieving parents were never offered any such seat or equivalent national honour.
This glaring disparity fuels a sense of injustice that some victims’ families are elevated and platformed in the corridors of power, while others, particularly those involving white British victims of racial attacks are quietly sidelined or downplayed in public discourse.
Rest in peace, Kriss Donald. Never forgotten.
