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Nelson teenager's jaw broken in 'homophobic attack' (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Nelson teenager's jaw broken in 'homophobic attack'
1:40pm Friday 24th February 2012 in News
POLICE are hunting three men who broke the jaw of a teenager after shouting homophobic abuse at him.
The attack happened at around 9.30pm on Saturday, February 11, when a 16-year-old boy was walking on Netherfield Road, Nelson with his sister when three men shouted at him.
An argument then broke out.
The group assaulted him, punching and kicking him in the face before fleeing when a man intervened.
The three men are described as Asian, between 16 and 19 years of age.
One of them was described as being of medium build, around 5ft 8in and 5ft 10in, clean shaven with short, dark cropped, hair.
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Comments (30)
1:46pm Fri 24 Feb 12
Dusty Snatchmonger says...
1:53pm Fri 24 Feb 12
TONY WALES says...
Or am I not allowed to say
"racist", in case I upset people?
1:59pm Fri 24 Feb 12
Cha'mone MF says...
2:06pm Fri 24 Feb 12
Cha'mone MF says...
4:57pm Fri 24 Feb 12
god does not exist says...
5:54pm Fri 24 Feb 12
tombo1984 says...
6:55pm Fri 24 Feb 12
Good call says...
P.S Putting FACT At the end of something doesn't make it a fact.
7:15pm Fri 24 Feb 12
everywhere is sh1t says...
8:18pm Fri 24 Feb 12
Good call says...
8:20pm Fri 24 Feb 12
katypri says...
8:38pm Fri 24 Feb 12
Ian123xyz says...
9:04pm Fri 24 Feb 12
l m h jones says...
no mention of ethnicity of victim in report so why so many posters assuming he is white? the story is about homophobia not race. hope the young man makes a swift recovery and his family are ok Hope the vile little bullies are caught soon but dont hold out much hope for them getting a serious sentence..probably hiding under their mummys skirts as they ran away when confronted
9:08pm Fri 24 Feb 12
Good call says...
10:28pm Fri 24 Feb 12
nil bye mouth says...
11:01pm Fri 24 Feb 12
Dusty Snatchmonger says...
1:57am Sat 25 Feb 12
NelsonAsianButProudBritish says...
5:51am Sat 25 Feb 12
AlexD90 says...
7:57am Sat 25 Feb 12
Malthus says...
3:10pm Sat 25 Feb 12
robbylancs86 says...
ritish says...
1:57am Sat 25 Feb 12
This is really really bad what the hell's happening to the world?for the life of me i dont know what would possess 3 asians to beat up a gay white lad.....but to be fair he had his warnings not to be gay they did shout at him 1st......
im confused by what you say he had his warning to not be gay its not a choice to be gay people are born gay im sure if its was a choice people would choose not to be that way as it causes such thing like whats happened in nelson
5:02pm Sat 25 Feb 12
Ian123xyz says...
5:04pm Sat 25 Feb 12
Ian123xyz says...
4:45am Sun 26 Feb 12
louderfasterlonger says...
10:56am Sun 26 Feb 12
jack daniels says...
11:15pm Sun 26 Feb 12
carrman2 says...
11:18pm Sun 26 Feb 12
carrman2 says...
5:36pm Tue 28 Feb 12
chinx786 says...
Racist or homophobic, the point is that a lad had his jaw broken by three thugs
2:22pm Sat 3 Mar 12
hoodle says...
GHT!!
Actually, let's blame Harry Hill
6:28pm Sat 3 Mar 12
sarah b nelson says...
7:23pm Sat 3 Mar 12
sarah b nelson says...
asian descent,white british
asian appearence, white male/ female. Eastern european descent/appearence, asian heritage. Why cant we be english desecent,english heritage,english youths, english appearence? take the "colours" out of the equation and it will be a more even ball game! The EDL accept all of these nationalities and are only against muslim extremists! seeing as its the threats of this thats causing all of this unrest, should we not be concentrating on ridding our country of this extreminism? Thats the sort of thing that would bring us all together;naturally.
3:51am Sun 4 Mar 12
NelsonAsianButProudBritish says...