Talk:Antoni Imiela

"a German rapist"
I'm puzzled by this. We're told that Imiela's father was Polish and his mother German, and that he was born in a German city - but when he was 7 they all moved to the UK. His German mother abandoned the family when he was 14. Was he never granted British nationality, and did the refugee family have to keep applying for aliens' residence permits for decades on end? I presume he spoke native-sounding English, having moved to the UK at such a young age - reference is made in an Investigation Discovery programme on him about his having a recognisable Northern accent (though this also puzzles me, since he seems to have spent most of his life in southern England, and only "moved" to the north when he was sent to Wakefield Prison for his sexual offences). I guess anything's possible, but I just hope "German" hasn't been gratuitously added (or emphasised) here to suggest something about his character. "A German rapist" implies that he travelled to the UK for the express purpose of assaulting British women and girls, which quite clearly was not the case. Most people would surely refer to him as "a British rapist", or quite simply "a rapist".89.212.50.177 (talk) 12:38, 28 September 2018 (UTC)