{"id":4331,"date":"2009-12-04T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/12\/04\/father-and-son-attacked-in-mosque-car-park\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:06:57","slug":"father-and-son-attacked-in-mosque-car-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/04\/father-and-son-attacked-in-mosque-car-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and son attacked in mosque car park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>No racist motive behind attack, police say<\/h3>\n<div><strong>A FATHER and son were attacked by a hammer-wielding thug in a mosque car park.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The attack happened in a mosque on Newton Street, Ashton-under-Lyne on Monday afternoon. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The victims, aged 55 and 29, were sprayed in the face and hit with hammers.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBoth men were taken to hospital suffering from head injuries.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe older man has now been discharged, but his son remains in hospital in a stable condition.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe offender is described as a white male, around 6 feet tall, slim build, wearing dark clothing and a dark hat.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDetective Constable Graeme Masheter, of Ashton CID, said: &#8220;This was a completely unprovoked attack on a father and son who were simply going about their business.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;It is unclear why these two men would be targeted in this way. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;The attack took place outside a mosque and the two men are Asian, but it is not being treated as a racist incident.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m appealing for anyone who may have any information at all to help us trace this offender.&#8221;<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAnyone with information should call police at Ashton on 0161 856 9252 or the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No racist motive behind attack, police say A FATHER and son were attacked by a hammer-wielding thug in a mosque car park. &#13; The attack happened in a mosque on Newton Street, Ashton-under-Lyne on Monday afternoon. &#13; The victims, aged 55 and 29, were sprayed in the face and hit with hammers.&#13; Both men were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}