The 16-year-old victim of a brutal street attack said last night that she hoped to be the last victim of the stranger who knocked her unconscious.
The teenage student, who collapsed to the pavement after one powerful punch in Plaistow, east London, explained she wanted the thug to be caught so that he could not injure anybody else.
She said she had 'no idea' what was about to happen when he ran up behind her in broad daylight as she walked to college and viciously swung at her.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the teenager said that 'the next thing she knew’, she was waking up in an ambulance taking her to hospital.
'It was really bad,' she told ITV's London Tonight, dressed conservatively in a black belted coat and headscarf.
'I had a migraine, my chin was grazed and sore, my teeth were hurting because they were chipped and I couldn’t talk.
'I hope he does get caught so he doesn’t do it again to another person. I hope I am his last victim.'
The girl said she had seen a man looking at her when she had briefly gone back into her house to get the mobile phone she had left behind.
It appears that he then followed her down Plaistow High Street and savagely attacked her just 500m from her home, outside the Black Lion pub.
She admitted she is scared to walk down the street alone since the vicious beating last Tuesday.
Re: Find him, hang him.
Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:54 pm
by Gob
A thug has admitted knocking a 16-year-old girl unconscious in an unprovoked street attack that left her with broken teeth and a split lip.
A court heard Michael Ayoade, 34, who smacked petite teenager Tasneem Kabir around the head as she was walking to college in east London, told police: 'She started it'.
He was arrested thanks to an anonymous tip-off after police released CCTV footage of the shocking attack, which showed Ayoade casually jogging away while Miss Kabir lay unconscious on the ground.
Ayoade later told police that the petite 16-year-old 'didn't have a friendly face', that he was 'intimidated by her' and that she 'made me feel like a pauper with her facial gestures'.
He said he couldn’t cope with 'taking an insult from a little person like that'.
Powerfully built Ayoade, who has a distinctive scar on his cheek, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm at Thames Magistrates' Court today following the daylight attack in Plaistow, which left the teenager with three broken teeth, a split lip, and bruises and grazes on her face.
Ayoade was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Inner London Crown Court on a date to be fixed.
I suppose a severe letting off is coming.
Re: Find him, hang him.
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:53 pm
by Miles
Strop what is up with that? I understand that many Brits find our system of justice too brutal but many times here stories of some very nasty criminals and repeat offenders are just told not to do it again and let go.
Re: Find him, hang him.
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:04 pm
by liberty
This incident seems similar to the “Knock out game” played in the US except here an old person is usually the victim.
Re: Find him, hang him.
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 7:51 pm
by Gob
Miles wrote:Strop what is up with that? I understand that many Brits find our system of justice too brutal but many times here stories of some very nasty criminals and repeat offenders are just told not to do it again and let go.
I really don't know Miles, I wish I did.
During the Blair years there was an explosion of thsi kind of lunacy, where the criminals were treated like the victims, and the victims all but forgotten. Add in mass immigration, and a mindset of some that anyone from a foreign land was a poor downtrodden victim who deserved everything the country can give them, and you get this sort of lunacy.
Re: Find him, hang him.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:48 pm
by Sue U
I suspect the perception of UK justice has more to do with the freak cases and distortions published by the Daily Mail rather than the reality of prosecution and sentencing in the overwhelming majority of cases.
That said, from the suspect's quotes highlighted above by Gob, it seems this guy has some sort of mental illness, for which treatment may be a better method of rehabilitation than incarceration. Nevertheless, he has pleaded guilty and presumably will be sentenced in accordance with the statutes and rules governing the offense charged:
In England and Wales, a person guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm is liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years,[22] or on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum, or to both.[23]
Where a person is convicted on indictment of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, other than an offence for which the sentence falls to be imposed under section 227 or 228 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, the court, if not precluded from sentencing an offender by its exercise of some other power, may impose a fine instead of or in addition to dealing with him in any other way in which the court has power to deal with him, subject however to any enactment requiring the offender to be dealt with in a particular way.[24]
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm is a specified offence for the purposes of chapter 5 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 because it is a specified violent offence.[25] It is not a serious offence for the purposes of that Chapter because it is not, apart from section 225, punishable in the case of a person aged 18 or over by imprisonment for life, or by imprisonment for a determinate period of ten years or more.[26] This means that sections 227 and 228 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (which relate to extended sentences) apply where a person is convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, committed after the commencement of section 227 or 228 (as the case may be) and the court considers that there is a significant risk to members of the public of serious harm occasioned by the commission by the offender of further specified offences.[27]
