Beaten daughter Jane Champion hopes to be reconciled with jailed parents

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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A TEENAGE girl beaten by her parents for having a black boyfriend has not given up hope of a reconciliation.

Swansea student Jane Champion was assaulted on two separate occasions by mother Frances Lee, 47, and father David, 50, after they learnt of her relationship with Zimbabwe-born Alfonce Ncube.

  1. Alfonce Ncube and Jane Champion talk to Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes on This Morning after Jane was assaulted on two separate occasions by mother Frances Lee 47 and father David 50

    Alfonce Ncube and Jane Champion talk to Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes on This Morning after Jane was assaulted on two separate occasions by mother Frances Lee, 47, and father David, 50. Picture: ITV

  2. Swansea’s Alfonce Ncube and his girlfriend Jane Champion featured on ITV daytime programme This Morning

    Swansea’s Alfonce Ncube and his girlfriend Jane Champion featured on ITV daytime programme This Morning. Picture: ITV

  3. David and Francis Lee Champion

    David and Francis Lee Champion

And as well as Mr Ncube being attacked by his girlfriend’s father, he was also racially abused by both her parents.

Last week, Champion and his wife of Lee Street, St Thomas, were both jailed and branded “disgraceful” by a judge.

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But despite the actions of her parents, 18-year-old Jane said she does not hate them and hopes one day they can accept her and Mr Ncube’s love for one another.

She said: “Alfonce and I do love each other. How much? I’d say 10 out of 10.

“I’ve met his parents and they are not worried about the colour of my skin.

“They (my parents) have not said sorry to me yet.

“But I keep hope that they will do. Of course, I would forgive them and I hope we will be able to carry on.”

Earlier this month Swansea Crown Court heard Champion and his wife both had disapproved of their daughter’s relationship because of Mr Ncube’s race.

A judge learned how Jane’s father had shouted racist abuse at Mr Ncube before grabbing him and kicking him on the back of his legs after finding him and his daughter alone together in his house in St Thomas, Swansea.

He then physically removed Mr Ncube from the house before grabbing his daughter by her hair and starting to hit her.

Following the incident Jane went to stay with her grandmother but eventually returned once things had calmed down.

However, a few weeks later she was assaulted by both her parents after she told them she was still in a relationship with Mr Ncube.

While her father continued to beat her, her mother yelled abuse, telling her daughter she “deserved it” and accused her of “bringing shame on her family”.

After admitting charges of assault and using racially abusive language Champion was sentenced to 12 months’ custody — while his wife was given a nine-month jail term.

Reflecting on the events of the past 18 months, their daughter Jane spoke of her disbelief to ITV1 programme This Morning about the situation.

“My parents were loving people and I had never had any problems with them before,” she added.

Jane said her mother had found out first about her relationship with Mr Ncube — and “did not seem bothered”.

However things soon changed when her father caught the pair in his house together — resulting in the first attack on the couple.

Mr Ncube, who appeared alongside Jane on This Morning, denied reports they had been “in a state of undress” and had in fact been revising for an economics exam.

But while he could understand Champion being protective over his daughter the 21-year-old could not understand why he was hated simply because he was black.

“I am not going to generalise of the whole population where we live,” he said.

“I have had problems before this incident.

“I just think when is it going to change?”

The couple, who have since moved in together, also told This Morning presenters Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford yesterday there might be difficulties in the future should Jane’s parents come around to visit. However, Mr Ncube added: “They know we love each other and are living together.

‘‘Jane should be able to visit them.

‘I think that they are kind of adapting to it.”

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  • Profile image for PruPhneeda

    by PruPhneeda

    Friday, August 17 2012, 6:47PM

    “behindthefact
    Thank you for clarifying. You had me confused because of your comments seem to come from U.S. sociology textbooks, magazines and, in particular, American internet blogs.

    The theory that mixing genes from different races will produce stronger and more adaptable people is indeed controversial so, can you let us know who the main advocates of are?
    Also, it would be helpful if you could cite instances where people have sought to impose 'hybrid vigor' on others to the extent that people feel compelled to marry someone from a different race or culture.”

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    by chwareteg1

    Friday, August 17 2012, 6:31PM

    “This story has defiantly run its course, Evening Post just pull the plug on it. Two many commenting exhibiting extreme low mentality, and unable to make any form of coherent constructive contribution.”

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    by behindthefact

    Friday, August 17 2012, 5:22PM

    “@PruPhneeda
    now that you presumed my identity wrongfully, and even may think by yourself that I'm a white supremacist, I better let you now that I'm from Iran, (now what, don't you want to oppose me another way?), I've been discriminated many times outside and inside of my country, once someone understood that I'm from Iran he shouted at me "F***ing Muslim" while he never known that I'm not even Muslim!, in my country I've been discriminated in different ways, but I'm more rational than being obsessed by these things cause I know these are inevitable, I have friends from different countries (America, Israel, Denmark, ...) white, non-white.

    "If you think that their actions were justified then, that's your problem.":
    I never wanted to justified their action as I mentioned violence against women (and children) is not tolerated (at all)(seriously, I hate violence against women and children), Her parent probably would get a better answer without any violence and bigotry but what they did just made things worse, I also used the word "regardless" (regardless of violence of her parent and the racial abuse stuff) and I said "Please don't mix things up" cause I wanted to explain the issue overall

    "Your post appears to be several copy&pastes and hastily put together without much thought. What are you on about?" you may be right cause I'm not a native English speaker sorry for that, although I didn't copy&paste anything.
    "Who said anything about marriage?": Marriage or living together whatever, official or unofficial.
    "Some Americans get married and divorced as often as they change shoes.":you mentioned it right but why? Because of their shoes?, or the high rate of cultural and racial conflictions that find their ways through marriage?
    "A very small sample.": yes I agree with you at this point, but there are great samples outside Internet and medias in real life all over the world

    "As for your 'famous theory'; I'd never heard of it until I read your comment.
    Who are 'the naive people'?" this is a controversial theory between race-mixing worshipers and the opposite side, I have studied many thing about this and I know this has been never proven on humans, I mentioned it because every time when it comes to genetic science, race-mixing worshipers irrationally use this theory to impose their idea on (nontechnical) people.

    What I say here, is not to praise Racism, Bigotry, or the action of her parent but in vise versa, I'm saying for example apart from this incident, people can not necessarily be called Racist or "Old-fashioned" or anything like that just because they are interested in their own race and culture, don't you think it is also some kind of discrimination? That's why I used the word "antithesis".”

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    by PruPhneeda

    Friday, August 17 2012, 3:27PM

    “behindthefact
    I presume that you're either living in the USA or from the USA.
    We have laws in this country and we have a system of justice.
    Mr. and Mrs. Champion were found guilty by a Court of Law and given appropriate sentences.
    If you think that their actions were justified then, that's your problem.

    Your post appears to be several copy&pastes and hastily put together without much thought. What are you on about?
    Who said anything about marriage?
    Anyway, let's look at the survey mentioned by you.
    Some Americans get married and divorced as often as they change shoes.
    The survey that your refer to took place in the USA in which 1,606 males and 4,070 females aged up to 44 years participated.
    A very small sample.
    Same race 31% divorce before 10 years. Different race 41% divorce before 10 years. Not 'most' as your post states.
    The USA has the highest divorce rate in the world so, you might as well advocate against all marriages.

    As for your 'famous theory'; I'd never heard of it until I read your comment.
    Who are 'the naive people'?

    'It is tragic that how they indulge their fancy theories and try to paint it with science and sell it through their medias to people, they say we want more diversity but what they're doing in fact is in violent conflict with diversity and human nature,pushing indulged multiracialism into the minds of people especially teenagers and encourage them to disagree with their parents will lead to such tragic consequences, labeling and accusing other people to Racism/Nazism/Bigotry or whatever just because they are interested in their own culture and descent and make them to scare to express their opinion will make the society two-faced and hypocrite and to disintegration, Do you see the antithesis here?'
    No. What I see is an extremely long, badly constructed, insecure, alarmist rant that wasn't worth reading.”

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    by behindthefact

    Friday, August 17 2012, 12:27PM

    “However violence against women is not tolerated, even the most atheist and liberal parents will react extremely if they come home and see their teenaged son/daughter half-naked with some one else on the bed/sofa, regardless of their mixed-raced relationship, The action of her parent is more like due to the behavior of them and can not necessarily translated to racial abuse, they even didn't use some decency and respect to the family things, as she mentioned her fault, she even didn't tell her family clearly about her relationship.
    Let's look at the issue more deeply, here I want to explain some issues regardlessly, so please don't mix things up:
    What is the definition of racism anyway? "I have studies many (independent) science articles about racism"
    Human is an advanced self-conscious, intelligent animal, (please don't think I want to equalize Humans with animals)
    Humans are basically gene-driven animals normally people of the same race understand each other better and can relate, we should not fool ourselves and mix it up with discrimination and the superior-inferior game, that's why the most interracial marriage end up in divorce (refer to): http://tinyurl.com/yculobj

    you can see this behavior in nature as well,we have different animals each type itself has different races,for example felines, how many cats do you see mate with panthers? Or lions with tigers, Lions and Tigers can bred together but you can't see that happen naturally,(some people wrongfully mix it up with incestuous and try put it up against miscegenation which is completely irrelevant, our case here is same-race and cross-race, incestuous is also rare between animals), this natural "same race-interested" behavior play a major part in saving diversity between species, now here humans interfere in nature which will lead to unpredictable consequences.

    here I want to point out a famous theory called "hybrid vigor"."Hybrid vigor" is a concept useful to plant breeders, who noticed that the first generation of crosses between plant subspecies often had longer lives and greater stamina than the parent plants. Despite the fact that this effect has never been noted in humans, the concept was hijacked and used to tell the naive people, in effect: "See, race-mixing is good for you! Racially-mixed offspring will be smarter and stronger and longer-lived than racially pure children! 'Hybrid vigor' means that we should mix the races because of the genetic difference between the races!" regardless of these kind of propagandas which I don't want to mention who benefits from them,the human gene is very complicated than being simply compared with plant's,
    If I want to continue the reasons there are thousands facts to be said.

    It is tragic that how they indulge their fancy theories and try to paint it with science and sell it through their medias to people, they say we want more diversity but what they're doing in fact is in violent conflict with diversity and human nature,pushing indulged multiracialism into the minds of people especially teenagers and encourage them to disagree with their parents will lead to such tragic consequences, labeling and accusing other people to Racism/Nazism/Bigotry or whatever just because they are interested in their own culture and descent and make them to scare to express their opinion will make the society two-faced and hypocrite and to disintegration, Do you see the antithesis here?

    Now,people in this case what I want to say is that we can't judge these incidents like that,If you want the true knowledge turn off the biased TV's and medias and go after independent science, the behavior of humans has roots not only in their culture and environment but also more in their genes and we can't ignore it like that or call it Racism.”

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    by JRR56

    Thursday, August 16 2012, 6:44AM

    “Maybe this Alfie should preach racial harmony in Zimbabwe where whites are second class citizens, and are beaten even killed because of thier colour”

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    by JRR56

    Thursday, August 16 2012, 6:30AM

    “I hope this silly girl will one day realise that she has destroyed her parents life. She and her Zimbabwean Boyfriend potificate on TV about this modern age, well respect your parents and if you want to get into a relationship talk to them or expect the consequenses. They should go on Jerry Springer where other trash abound”

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    by Neathboy234

    Wednesday, August 15 2012, 3:22PM

    “Back in the 1970's I'm sure many parents would have acted like this girls have done. Thankfully we've moved on from the days of "Love they neighbour". To see people of different colours and race together is perfectly normal. With white people only having on average 1.2 children/couple in a few hundred years time there will probably be very few white people left. The future is brown, much to the racists annoyance I'm sure.

    Best of luck to the both of them I say, and the sooner they both forget about this racist pair in jail the better.”

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    by TheMatthew

    Wednesday, August 15 2012, 3:05PM

    “hacker_jack
    I used to think the same way when I was growing up here, I really did.....then I spent a few years living and working in various different parts of the world, came back and realised just how backward and provincial it is. Either you've never lived anywhere else (and I mean LIVED, not just been on holiday) or you're an apologist for Swansea looking through rose tinted glasses.
    And before you say it, yes I get told all the time if I don't like it then leave. Loyalty to and love for my family, especially my ageing parents is what keeps me here, something which was evidently lacking within the Champion family in this sad story.”

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    by hacker_jack

    Wednesday, August 15 2012, 2:28PM

    “TheMatthew. Sorry buts that's BS.

    What you have read here is the witterings of at most 3 people (and in likelihood 1 with multiple logins) who is like that.

    Swansea has a large community of very open minded people when it comes to races and cultures. It also has a relatively high percentage of integration between races (as opposed to the ghettos of other cities such as Cardiff which are really cities within cities). No doubt it has it's share of racists same as everywhere else, but it's certainly better than a lot of Wales.”

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