Close X
Thursday, November 28, 2024
ADVT 
International

Man Admits Ripping Off Woman's Niqab In UK

Darpan News Desk IANS, 07 Feb, 2017 01:31 PM
    A 55-year-old British man today admitted in a UK court to ripping off a Muslim woman's niqab or full face veil in a shopping centre and yelling "you are in our country now".
     
    Peter Scotter, of Roker, Sunderland, appeared at Newcastle crown court to admit racially aggravated assault by beating and a separate charge of racially aggravated harassment. Both offences were based on Scotter's hostility towards a particular religious group, namely Islam, the court heard. Tony Hawks, defending, said Scotter had been diagnosed with a serious cancerous tumour under his tongue last week and was due to have an operation next Monday.
     
    "I have seen some documentation showing that the diagnosis is pretty bad," the barrister was quoted as saying by the Press Association.
     
    The judge, Stephen Earl, was quoted as saying that he would sentence Scotter later, once he had heard more details about the diagnosis.
     
    "This is a custodial-band sentence, given his record and the nature of his actions," the judge said.
     
    A previous hearing at Sunderland magistrates court heard how Scotter left his victim terrified when he attacked her in July.
     
     
    Laura Lax, prosecuting, told the hearing the woman was waiting with her nine-year-old son for her husband outside a store in Bridges shopping centre in Sunderland when a man "purposefully" walked towards her and grabbed her niqab or the full face veil.
     
    The force he used almost threw her to the ground and the niqab came away from her face, exposing her and causing pain to her neck.
     
    A witness heard Scotter shout, "Here, take that (expletive) off, you are in our country now."
     
    Scotter's previous convictions include actual bodily harm and racially aggravated criminal damage.

    MORE International ARTICLES

    Indian-Origin Vijaygiri Anandgiri Goswami Linked To Pak-Afghan Drug Trade: US Prosecutor Preet Bhara

    Indian-Origin Vijaygiri Anandgiri Goswami Linked To Pak-Afghan Drug Trade: US Prosecutor Preet Bhara
    Vijaygiri Anandgiri Goswami and three others "ran a Kenyan drug trafficking organisation with global ambitions," Bharara said on Tuesday. 

    Indian-Origin Vijaygiri Anandgiri Goswami Linked To Pak-Afghan Drug Trade: US Prosecutor Preet Bhara

    Indian American Realtor Subba Rao Kolla To Run For Virigina Assembly

    Indian American Realtor Subba Rao Kolla To Run For Virigina Assembly
    Kolla, a real estate businessman and a community activist, if elected, will become the first Indian-origin member of the Virginia House of Delegates,

    Indian American Realtor Subba Rao Kolla To Run For Virigina Assembly

    Why UK's Rekha Patel Sold Her Dream Home For 2 Pounds

    Why UK's Rekha Patel Sold Her Dream Home For 2 Pounds
    A 43-year-old Indian-origin teacher in the UK has sold her home, which has a market value of 250,000 pounds, for a token of mere 2 pounds to ensure that she cannot be evicted from the property.

    Why UK's Rekha Patel Sold Her Dream Home For 2 Pounds

    White House Uses Quebec Killings To Defend Own Policies On Muslim-Country Travel

    In the face of protests, lawsuits, internal grumbling, an international backlash and a partial climb-down, the Trump administration invoked Quebec City's mosque attack to defend its travel ban on seven majority-Muslim countries.

    White House Uses Quebec Killings To Defend Own Policies On Muslim-Country Travel

    Murdered Infosys Staffer's Father Alleges Harassment By Senior

    Murdered Infosys Staffer's Father Alleges Harassment By Senior
    A former army officer, Raju O. told media persons that she had complained to her family about the alleged pestering by a superior and she was very disturbed about it, compelling her to seek a transfer to Bengaluru.

    Murdered Infosys Staffer's Father Alleges Harassment By Senior

    Two Indians Plead Guilty To Smuggling Foreigners Into US

    Two Indians Plead Guilty To Smuggling Foreigners Into US
    Two Indian men here pleaded guilty before a district court to charges of illegally smuggling foreign nationals to the US, the media reported.

    Two Indians Plead Guilty To Smuggling Foreigners Into US