Police are trying to find a thug who violently assaulted an Asian man in a shopping centre. The attack, which happened in the Wheatsheaf Centre in Rochdale town centre, was unprovoked and witnessed by several people. He was chased away by security guards after pressing a ballpoint pen in to the face of the man and racially abusing him for several minutes, “he ran like a big pansy” said a witness, stopping only to pick up his Nokia 3310 that he dropped.
The police, going on descriptions of the man, are looking for a balding, meat-head type person, described as a 'neandathall' by one witness. By sheer coincidence, the man was wearing an 'EDL Stockport' t-shirt.
To suggest the man is an EDL supporter would be absurd, as the attack was both racially motivated and violent, where as the EDL are a none violent and none racist organisation, as demonstrated by their peaceful protests up and down the country: protests which involve vandalising cars, intimidating shoppers, smashing windows and pissing up the side of Nottingham Castle.
We rang the EDL for comment, but could only hear people chanting back down the phone. Darren Hillsborough, a leading anti fascist campaigner explained to us that these incidents are mere coincidences, and couldn't be attributed to the EDL. “Their ideals are of protecting an English way of life, they don't cause any trouble, most people don't even know they have been” he said, adding that the man possibly found the t-shirt in the street, or bought it off Ebay without understanding what the logo was about.
This assault joins a long list of incidents involving people who aren't associated with the EDL causing violent and racially motivated crimes when the EDL are nearby. A man from West Bromwich, who just so happened to catch a coach all the way to Blackburn (110 miles), where there just so happened to be an EDL rally, was recently convicted of punching a police horse several times and for trying to drag the officer off the animal.
Of course, these incidents are just massive coincidences that just happen to take place when the EDL are in town.
The police, going on descriptions of the man, are looking for a balding, meat-head type person, described as a 'neandathall' by one witness. By sheer coincidence, the man was wearing an 'EDL Stockport' t-shirt.
To suggest the man is an EDL supporter would be absurd, as the attack was both racially motivated and violent, where as the EDL are a none violent and none racist organisation, as demonstrated by their peaceful protests up and down the country: protests which involve vandalising cars, intimidating shoppers, smashing windows and pissing up the side of Nottingham Castle.
We rang the EDL for comment, but could only hear people chanting back down the phone. Darren Hillsborough, a leading anti fascist campaigner explained to us that these incidents are mere coincidences, and couldn't be attributed to the EDL. “Their ideals are of protecting an English way of life, they don't cause any trouble, most people don't even know they have been” he said, adding that the man possibly found the t-shirt in the street, or bought it off Ebay without understanding what the logo was about.
This assault joins a long list of incidents involving people who aren't associated with the EDL causing violent and racially motivated crimes when the EDL are nearby. A man from West Bromwich, who just so happened to catch a coach all the way to Blackburn (110 miles), where there just so happened to be an EDL rally, was recently convicted of punching a police horse several times and for trying to drag the officer off the animal.
Of course, these incidents are just massive coincidences that just happen to take place when the EDL are in town.
If you recognise the bone head in the photo, then please contact...
Call police on 0161 856 9961 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Call police on 0161 856 9961 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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(It turns out that the thug in this article has since been arrested and charged.)
Man charged following racist attack in town centre
A man has been charged after a racist attack on an Asian man in Rochdale town centre.
Wayne Peter Taylor, 44, of Stock Close, was charged with racially aggravated common assault.
He is due to appear at Rochdale Magistrates Court on Monday 20 June 2011.
At about 4.00pm on Monday 9 May 2011, the victim, a 31-year-old Asian man was threatened a number of times in the Wheatsheaf Centre on Yorkshire Street.
Source: Lancaster Unity / Manchester Evening News
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