Baby Layla-Jean was attacked by
Abdulla last January in South Shields while walking on the road with her mum,
Rebecca Telford.
The mother of the baby was told
‘shut the f*** up’ then walked off, when she approached Abdulla, perhaps to
know the rationale behind his action against her lovely daughter.
According to sources, Abdulla, has
had two previous convictions for race-hate attacks on white females, and was
later tracked down through CCTV.
Rebecca told the police in a
victim impact statement that: ‘I am completely disgusted and distressed that a
grown man, regardless of race or religion, would spit on a defenceless baby in
a completely unprovoked attack.
‘If he had just walked by I would
not have even noticed him, there was no eye contact and no words had been
exchanged. I had never seen him before.’
The court heard that Layla-Jeam,
now almost two, was taken to the doctor after the attack for tests amid fears
she could have contracted TB.
Rebecca added: ‘I believe he spat
on her purely because we are white, I was a lone female and an easy target.’
Speaking, Mr Recorder Darren
Preston told Abdulla: ‘There is something viscerally horrible and disgusting
about spitting at someone, particularly in the face and to do so to a baby was
particularly disgusting, let alone to make things even worse when your
motivation for doing so is racial hatred.’
Thus, the judge made a reference
to Abdulla’s previous convictions and told him: ‘You have got a problem, it
seems to me, with white women.’
Speaking after the court case Rebecca
added: ‘South Shields is really multicultural, and I have never witnessed
anything like this before, between any races. It was horrifying. I am glad he
has been brought to justice, but I think he has got off lightly.
‘I am not racist at all but I
honestly think if it was the other way round and I had been abusive towards
him, then I would have been treated differently.
‘I had been doing a bit of
shopping and was just round the corner from my house.
‘I saw a man walking in the
opposite direction and then as he passed us he stopped, leaned into the pram,
spat on Layla-Jean, and said, ‘White people should not breed’.
‘It was horrendous, I was just so
shocked. It was the racism that disgusted me. I started yelling at him and he
just walked away.
‘Layla Jean was just nine months
old. She did not have a clue what was going on, but she was still distressed.
‘A lady stopped and helped me to
wipe her face. I didn’t call the police at first because I was just so worried
about Layla-Jean. She was only nine months at the time.
‘I phoned the doctor and I was
told that Layla-Jean might need to have a BCG injection, in case she had
contracted TB.
‘Normally kids don’t get
vaccinated until they are much older, and it would have been a lot for her to
go through. Luckily, it wasn’t necessary in the end, but it put me through a
lot of worry and stress.
‘I wasn’t sure if the police
would take what had happened seriously, because it wasn’t physically violent,
but they were fantastic, and managed to catch him within a few days.’
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