One of our readers in England sent me the video below showing this man attacking a 16-year-old girl in Plaistow in East London. Police are seeking the man in the attack which is both vicious and arbitrary. It is astonishing that the girl did not receive more serious injuries in hitting the sidewalk. She woke up in the ambulance. The man is obviously needs to be found before he attacks another victim.
The victim said that she had seen a man looking at her when she had briefly gone back into her house to get her mobile phone after leaving it. He then appeared to have followed her down the street. The shocking attack was captured on CCTV. She appears fine now but I expect that the experience will haunt her for some time. The man appears to have followed her for one-third of a mile before attacking.
The suspect is described by police as a “muscularly built” black male with a shaven head, and around 6ft tall. He was wearing baseball jacket and jeans and is aged between 25 and 30 years old. Hopefully, with the clarity of the picture above, we will see the man caught and safely locked away. The police are sending the images to media sites and blogs to seek anyone who has been this thug.
Source: Daily Mail
I’m not sure I’d describe someone who sucker punches a 16 year old girl from behind as a “man”. Sure, maybe in the technical sense of his gender, but nothing else about him comports to being a man. Some other more colorful adjectives certainly apply though.
is she wearing a hijab? is this some sort of warning?
No sophisticated legal questions in this case.
Bron – that was my first thought. Maybe her face wasn’t covered and he was mad about it… What a crazy world, in any case…
You have to wonder what motivated the attack. Hard for me to believe that it’s just random violence.
Perhaps he is an evangelist in the Westboro Baptist Church?
There is much less “random” violence as is there much less “random” sexual abuse of children, than people believe. I’ve watched the very short clip several times. My GUESS is something was said just out of the camera view causing this guy to catch up w/ this woman and hit her. He’s obviously depraved.
The video is of sufficient quality he will be identified eventually.
This is one of those cases where I have to ask “Where is George W Bush’s Total Information Awareness program now?”
Given the vast amount of NSA snooping and recording going on, and given that we know the precise time and location of this event, couldn’t NSA dredge up all of the surveillance from the vicinity and piece together the identity of this guy?
If it was a matter of national security I have no doubt they could do it, but merely because an innocent woman was nearly killed, they surely won’t.
It is just amazing….. Ditto to wht Gene said…
man-arrested
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/22/man-arrested-east-london-attack
Hope they got the right guy.
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