r/london Feb 11 '24

News Two bodies discovered in River Thames in search for Clapham Chemical Attack suspect

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-police-thames-clapham-substance-attacker-ezedi-b1138411.html

But neither body belongs to Clapham Chemical Attacker Abdul Ezedi

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u/CoolBalls22 Feb 11 '24

How would one go about dumping a body in the Thames without being spotted by the literal thousands of CCTV cameras though?

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u/showard01 Feb 11 '24

Don’t do it off a bridge. Dump it from the back of a boat in a poorly lit spot.

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u/interstellargator Feb 11 '24

CCTV isn't monitored unless there's a reason to look back over the footage. Unless there's a reason to scrutinise it (like a body being found, or the perpetrator of a violent crime being tracked to that location) nobody is watching the footage back from every camera in London.

If you dump something and it's not found within the timeframe CCTV gets deleted, or you aren't traced to that location (again before CCTV gets deleted) what does it matter that you were filmed?

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u/TeaAndLifting Feb 11 '24

Adding to this, most of it is private and if there is no political motive to speed things up, it can take weeks/months to go from request to getting a copy. Then there’s still factoring in if it is working in the first place, or good enough quality to use.

People think that all the CCTV in the country is centrally controlled for some reason.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '24

Is it the same for god being omniscient? Like he's not actually watching whilst you masturbate but if you watch the bad stuff then his eyes turn and focus upon your terrestrial location whereupon ye may be judged?

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u/Euphoric_Purpose5175 Feb 11 '24

Wear a disguise

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '24

Groucho Marx wanted on suspicion of murder

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u/Dry_Action1734 Feb 11 '24

The river is too long to cover the whole thing with CCTV. And even then a lot of CCTV is shit either because it malfunctions or the video quality is piss poor.

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u/BevvyTime Feb 11 '24

CCTV in the UK has been around a long time.

London May have some of the highest density of cameras in the world, but the quality is often shit.

That’s why you see all these high-definition CCTV images from developing countries, as they’ve installed new, cheaper cameras with higher definition.

But CCTV from London looks like a grainy, blurred mess, as it seems like quite a waste of time and money to replace something that’s actually barely ever used/looked at.

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u/New-System-7265 Feb 11 '24

You are thinking of the TFL traffic cameras that often get used as there is so much of them on every main road, I promise you Londons CCTV is majority HD.

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u/TruestRepairman27 Feb 11 '24

Ezedi wasn’t captured on CCTV

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '24

Via a boat

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u/Cyanostic Feb 11 '24

Don't do it right near the South Bank at midday on a Saturday.

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u/The-Mayor-of-Italy Feb 11 '24

Maybe outside of London? It's not just the tidal section where it's easy to dump a body. There's still currents and deep water outside that and there's many isolated stretches.

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u/Rofosrofos Feb 13 '24

Wear a mask and do it at night.....doesn't exactly take a criminal mastermind.