London - Screams Ignored As Girl, 12, Is Attacked

London - A 12-year-old Jewish girl who was beaten unconscious and robbed by anti-Semitic yobs on a bus and no-one came to her aid.

The girl and a friend were sitting at the back of the a 303 Metroline bus in Mill Hill, north London, when a group of around four girls got on at the Concourse, Grahame Park estate, and asked them if they were English or Jewish. They both replied they were "fully English". One girl in the group asked the victim for money, but she said she did not have any.
She and her friend tried to leave the bus but were blocked by the gang who searched their pockets and stole a bracelet.

One girl hit the victim around the face with her phone, slapped her several times, grabbed her hair and pulled her to the floor, where she was kicked and stamped on. She was left with a fractured eye socket, bruising and swelling to her face and chest.
"All I remember is her stamping on my face," she said. "Me and my friend were screaming. Then I blacked out. There were four people on the bus who didn't do anything."

After regaining consciousness, the girl and her friend tried to pull the bus doors open to escape.
She said: "The driver heard the attack and didn't open the doors. A boy opened the doors for us and I ran off."
She was helped by a motorist and taken to Barnet Hospital, where she was treated for her injuries and kept overnight.

Police are treating the attack on the girl, who is Jewish, as a racially aggravated robbery.
A spokeswoman for Metroline Bus Co. said: "It was a nasty incident. Our policy on handling assault is that drivers are instructed to stop the bus and wait for assistance."