British boxer Tyson Fury follows Joshua's fight against Usyk yesterday, celebrating. A little later he has to learn that his cousin was murdered almost at the same time. Fury shares a moving post urging politicians in England to act.
When Tyson Fury commented on last night's fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua just a few hours ago and announced himself as a possible next opponent of the winner Usyk, terrible news must have overtaken him at some point. Because it follows a shocking post on Instagram.
In a very personal post, 34-year-old Fury reports on the violent death of his cousin and calls for tougher laws against knife violence. Alongside a picture with the slogan "Stop Knife Crime," he wrote on Sunday: "My cousin was murdered last night, stabbed in the neck." He described the rampant knife violence in Great Britain as a "pandemic" and demanded: "This must stop as soon as possible. The government must introduce tougher penalties for knife violence".
According to the British news broadcaster Sky News, the incident is said to have taken place in a popular night-time district in Greater Manchester, early Sunday morning around 3 a.m. Fury's 31-year-old cousin Rico Burton died as a result of the knife attack. Another victim, a 17-year-old, was reportedly injured. The boy is in the hospital with serious injuries, the broadcaster said. Two men aged 20 and 21 were arrested.
An 87-year-old man was killed with a knife in an electric wheelchair in London last Tuesday. The act had caused great horror. The incidents had recently increased in the British capital. Within a few days, six people had lost their lives there by violence. London Mayor Sadiq Khan blamed the heatwave, school holidays and longer daylight hours, he told radio station LBC. Overall, however, violent and property crimes in the capital have declined since last year, according to the Labor politician.
