{"id":6575,"date":"2014-04-16T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T11:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/04\/16\/leicester-racist-attack\/"},"modified":"2014-04-16T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T11:16:26","slug":"leicester-racist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/16\/leicester-racist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester Racist Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crime number: LC\/01071\/14-7<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Officers investigating an assault and racist incident on a bus in Mountsorrel are appealing for witnesses to contact them.<\/font><\/div>\n

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The incident took place at about 12pm on Friday March 14 on a Arriva bus, possibly number 126 or 127, which was travelling from Loughborough towards Mountsorrel, a man on the bus began making racist comments towards an Asian family and when another passenger intervened the suspect assaulted him.<\/font><\/div>\n

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The victim received minor injuries and didn\u2019t require hospital treatment. A 62-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident and released on police bail pending further enquiries.<\/font><\/div>\n

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PC 1948 Chris Hayton is investigating the incident, he said: \u201cThere were a number of people on the bus at the time that we would like to speak to, in particular the Asian family who were the subject of racial abuse.<\/font><\/div>\n

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\u201cIf you were travelling on this bus and recall the incident please get in touch. Any calls received will be treated in confidence.\u201d<\/font><\/div>\n

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Anyone with information in relation to any appeals featured on this site is asked to contact the relevant officer on 101, follow the instructions to leave a message for the officer and when prompted key in the officer\u2019s identification number. Alternatively, contact Crimestoppers, which is free and anonymous, on 0800 555 111.<\/font><\/div>\n

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Police Appeal for Information Crime number: LC\/01071\/14-7 \u00a0 Officers investigating an assault and racist incident on a bus in Mountsorrel are appealing for witnesses to contact them. \u00a0 The incident took place at about 12pm on Friday March 14 on a Arriva bus, possibly number 126 […]<\/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-6575","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\/6575","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=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/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=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}