In Deepest Sympathy

The mayhem and slaughter that Madrid has had to face upto should make every person cringe as to where our world, our civilisation is heading. Bombing innocent people young and old is a bloody and evil way to ram home any political cause or philosophy.

Councillor Phil Bateman said " I just cannot say nothing and ignore the death and the slaughter of innocents. It just cannot be right to wreak such a toll on a bunch of people who only had work and leisure on their minds and not politics when they set out on their trains for Madrid on Thursday morning. The scenes on our TV screens were sad and disgraceful. My whole heart bleeds for those who suffered death and maiming. The family's of all those innocent people who's are left are very much in my heart tonight.

I salute all those brave people who tried to help as the bombs went off and all those transport officials and workers who were left dazed and staggered and who will join with millions of others from round the world who are left wondering why it happened at all?

I would like to on behalf of my constituents here in Wednesfield North offer my deepest condolences to the families who are left to suffer the pain and the loss of so many solid ordinary citizens who have been killed and injured by cowardly terrorists. Spain and the City of Madrid will be grieving tonight. But I do hope that they will find some consolation in the fact that there will be tens of thousands of people worldwide that will see this terrible day of suffering as another reason to deny extremists any sympathy or understanding for their warped and grotesque ideological attempts to win a political argument."

Councillor Phil Bateman has placed a message of condolence from Wednesfield North in a book of rememberance opened by the Spanish Government remembering the dead caught up in terrorism.