Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > the easiest descriptors for us tend to be > sex, age, height, colour, distinctive clothing. > The description (a young black guy in a blue > hoody) gives at least 4 of those, and implictly > (because the poster says he is big, implying the > attacker was smaller) some inkling of the 5th. Couldn't have put it better myself. Of all the people walking around East Dulwich last night, this surely narrows it down to under 5%. So not exactly useless. Somebody else must have seen him. I really think it's time people stopped being so sensitive about this kind of thing, "black" is not a forbidden word.