SNIPPET: “The family’s lawyers told the court a ‘culture of racist bullying and harassment’ built up around a 30-strong gang called the ‘Asian Invasion’.”
After the Black Hole of Calcutta came to be general knowledge, the British dealt with rebellious Sepoys by strapping them across the muzzles of field pieces and firing away. That was the first instance of the use of the phrase "to blow away" someone. Waging war was one thing, maltreatment of prisoners and civilians another.
This sort of thing would have produced a spate of hangings 150 years ago.