Two teenage girls have been sentenced for a series of antisemitic attacks against members of the Jewish community in Stamford Hill, London.
Two teenage girls have been sentenced for a series of antisemitic attacks in London , including one that left a woman unconscious. The 14- and 15-year-olds, who cannot be named because of their age, targeted members of the Jewish community in Stamford Hill in four separate incidents over half an hour in December 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
The CPS said the pair appeared at Stratford magistrates court on Wednesday where they were handed a youth rehabilitation order for 18 months. They were also ordered to undertake a rehabilitation activity requirement for 30 and 45 hours, and placed under curfew with an electronic tag for three months. The CPS said it successfully applied for a tougher sentence to be handed down to reflect that most of the attacks were “motivated by hate”. Prosecutors said that, in the first incident, the teenagers demanded money from a woman on St Ann’s Road. One of them tried to hit the victim but missed, and the woman managed to escape. Ten minutes later the pair demanded money from a 12-year-old girl near Holmdale Terrace, but let her go after they realised she had none. Within five minutes, they started to harass a group of four 11-year-old girls, using antisemitic language and asking them for money. The defendants followed one of the girls after they ran away, grabbing hold of her arm and taking her lunch bag from her, according to the CPS. In the final incident, which happened half an hour after the first, the girls attacked a woman on Rostrevor Avenue. The defendants approached the victim and asked if she had money in her pocket. When the woman tried to walk away from them, she was struck in the back. The CPS said they grabbed the victim’s phone before slapping her, pulling her wig off, throwing her to the ground and kicking he
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