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Richard Spillett — Daily Mail Feb 21, 2017

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Rezzas Abdulla. Click to enlarge

An attacker spat into a nine-month-old baby’s face and shouted ‘white people shouldn’t breed’ in a sickening race-hate assault.

Rezzas Abdulla left little Layla-Jean, who was just nine months old and in her pushchair, covered in saliva after the shocking street attack in South Shields last January.

Newcastle Crown Court heard the baby’s mother, hairdresser Rebecca Telford, 25, was out walking with the baby when the 33-year-old attacker approached without warning.

Prosecutor Emma Dowling told the court: ‘He lent into the pushchair and spat into the face of her daughter.

‘As he did so, he shouted or said “white people shouldn’t breed”.’

The court heard that when the baby’s stunned mother confronted Abdulla, he told her to ‘shut the f*** up’ and walked off.

Miss Dowling told the court the spit was ‘sprayed around’ the baby’s face and a shocked passer by gave her a tissue to clean up.

Ms Telford tried to take a photograph of her baby’s attacker as he walked away but was too shaken by what had happened.

Abdulla, who has two previous convictions for race-hate attacks on white women, was later tracked down through CCTV.

He was convicted of racially aggravated common assault after a trial at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court, which he did not attend.

In a victim impact statement Rebecca told the police: ‘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.”

 

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