Just deplorable!
Note: The Opinionator says they were Muslim youths.
H/T – Matamoros
Second attack on East End clergy by teenage thugs
EXCLUSIVE by Michael Parker
A SECOND priest has been beaten up in his own churchyard in the space of just eight weeks in London’s East End — this time over an argument about a football.
The Rector of St Matthew’s in Bethnal Green, The Rev Kevin Scully, was attacked on Tuesday afternoon by three drunken youths who had returned to take their revenge for a row three days before.
He had taken their ball last Saturday after he saw them using a cross on the church as a basketball hoop.
He has been taunted with religious and racist abuse in the past, but believes the beating was more alcohol-fuelled than anything more sinister.
The attack follows the vicious assault on Canon Michael Ainsworth at St George-in-the-East church in Shadwell in March.
But although that attack was treated as a ‘faith hate’ crime, police consider the latest incident as simple assault.
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