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Race attack probe after white woman hit
CHRIS MOONEY AND KEVIN HURLEY
A WHITE woman was punched in the face by an Asian man in what police are treating as a racially-motivated attack.
The 44-year-woman was treated at the new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for a suspected broken jaw after she was punched by the man.
The attacker was said to have called her a "white b*tch" and threatened to burn her house down. The assault took place after the victim asked the man to stop revving his car engine outside her home in Meadowfi
ld Gardens, Duddingston, in the early hours of the morning.
Police said the man, who is described as being in his mid-20s, verbally abused the woman in the run-up to the assault.
A spokesman
for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We are treating this incident as being of a rac
ist nature and we would appeal to anyone who may have seen the incident or remembers the revving of a car engine to contact police."
The incident happened after the woman was woken by the sound of music and a car engine revving loudly at around 12.30am on Saturday. After listening to the commotion for around 20 minutes, the woman decided to confront the driver of the silver BMW parked outside her house.
When she asked him to quieten down, the man began shouting and swearing at her before assaulting her. The punch knocked the woman to the ground where she lay bleeding before making her way back into her home and contacting police.
The woman then made her own way to hospital where X-rays sho
wed that she had not suffered any facial fractures.
But doctors had to remove several teeth and treat severe cuts to her gums and lips and swelling around her mouth and nose.
The victim
Race attack probe after white woman hit
CHRIS MOONEY AND KEVIN HURLEY
A WHITE woman was punched in the face by an Asian man in what police are treating as a racially-motivated attack.
The 44-year-woman was treated at the new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for a suspected broken jaw after she was punched by the man.
The attacker was said to have called her a "white b*tch" and threatened to burn her house down. The assault took place after the victim asked the man to stop revving his car engine outside her home in Meadowfi
ld Gardens, Duddingston, in the early hours of the morning.
Police said the man, who is described as being in his mid-20s, verbally abused the woman in the run-up to the assault.
A spokesman
for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We are treating this incident as being of a rac
ist nature and we would appeal to anyone who may have seen the incident or remembers the revving of a car engine to contact police."
The incident happened after the woman was woken by the sound of music and a car engine revving loudly at around 12.30am on Saturday. After listening to the commotion for around 20 minutes, the woman decided to confront the driver of the silver BMW parked outside her house.
When she asked him to quieten down, the man began shouting and swearing at her before assaulting her. The punch knocked the woman to the ground where she lay bleeding before making her way back into her home and contacting police.
The woman then made her own way to hospital where X-rays sho
wed that she had not suffered any facial fractures.
But doctors had to remove several teeth and treat severe cuts to her gums and lips and swelling around her mouth and nose.
The victim