Four teenagers who pelted a disabled woman with flour and eggs in a ‘despicable’ attack have been spared jail. The teens sparked outraged after they were pictured throwing flour at Janice Morris, 49, on a park bench in Bury St Edmunds in July. The boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons due to their age, were seen smiling and laughing as they posed for a picture next to the woman as she was covered from head to toe in flour. Ipswich youth court heard how a fifth teenager, their friend Cohan Semple, 18, took the picture and posted it on Snapchat for his group of 25 contacts to see.
イギリスで障害者の女性に小麦粉とを卵を投げつけて記念写真を撮った十代の少年たちがその写真をSnapchatにアップロードしたところ、拡散してしまい大きな避難をあびることになったものの、年齢が15歳〜17歳であったことから、ムショ行きは免れたというニュース。
「despicable（卑劣な）」と形容している。
Mr Ablett added: ‘She sat on a bench near a basketball court and a play area. All of a sudden a number of male youths appeared around her. She recognised some.
‘They all approached her and asked her questions about drugs. She didn’t feel unsafe or threatened and answered back as she does normally. She says what she thinks.
‘Some of them sat down. She said one of the boys was more of a loose cannon. He came from around the bench and spat on her head. She said, ‘What are you doing?,’ and describes the rest of the boys laughing and goading each other.
‘She was spat on once or twice more. They circled around her before going down an alleyway.
‘They were away for five or ten minutes and came back with flour purchased from a nearby shop.
‘This was chucked over her, covering her completely n flour. Her head, torso, face and lower half were covered in flour and eggs. The boys were laughing and she was spat at again, and one took a photograph of her.
‘She could see what was going on and heard when they were filming it.’ Ms Morris told police that she was ‘shocked’ by the attack and could not return to the area around the bench as she ‘felt like she has been told not to by people who threw the flour and eggs at her.’
女性がバスケットボールコートとプレイエリアのちかくのベンチに座っていると突然、何人かの若者があらわれ、近づいてきて女性にドラッグについていくつか質問をした。女性はとくに危ないとも感じなかったので、ふつうに答えた。やがて男たちのうち何人かが座った。そのうちの1人は危ない人に見えたという。男はベンチのあたりに来ると女性の頭につばを吐きかけた。それをみて、周りの男たちは笑ってお互いにそそのかすような感じだったという。
女性はさらに一回か二回つばを吐きかけられた。その後、女性の周りをぐるぐる回ったあと、路地に消えていった。5分から10分立つと男たちは近くの店で買った小麦粉をかってもどってきた。男たちはそれを女性にかけ、女性は完全に粉まみれになった。少年たちは笑いながらまたつばを吐きかけ、女性の写真をとっていた。
女性はとてもショックを受けており、ベンチのあった場所には行けなくなっているという。