November 28, 2011

Arrest over video of 'racist rant' on Croydon to Wimbledon tram


A woman has been arrested after an online video apparently showed a woman abusing ethnic minority passengers on a packed south London tram.

The clip, viewed more than 10,600 times since being uploaded to YouTube on Sunday, shows a woman sitting with a child, shouting at fellow passengers. British Transport Police said a woman, 34, had been arrested on suspicion of a racially-aggravated offence.

The incident happened on the Croydon to Wimbledon Tramlink route. Police are yet to clarify exactly where or when the incident happened.

In the online clip, the woman confronts several passengers, saying: "You are not British". She then starts swearing. When one passenger asks her to mind her language, saying "there are little kids on the tram", the woman points to the child on her lap and says "I've got a little kid here".

The woman then says: "Go back to where you come from".

In the video she then starts shouting at the woman who asked her not to swear, before another passenger intervenes, saying: "I am English, what have you got to say to me?"

A British Transport Police spokesman said: "The video posted on YouTube and Twitter has been brought to our attention and our officers have launched an investigation. At present it is not entirely clear which tram stops the offence took place between and when it occurred. As a result, we need anyone who witnessed this incident, or with any information that could assist our investigation - including the identity of the woman - to contact us.

"We will not tolerate racism in any form on the rail network and will do everything in our power to locate the person responsible."

BBC

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32 comments:

Anonymous said...

This video was only posted on Youtube yesterday and it's already had 124,973 hits.

James said...

And here's Lee Barnes, the BNP's former 'legal advisor':

"Ring This Number - Pass It On

The Telegraph newspaper are trying to stitch up a woman who dared express her opinion on a tram in London about immigration and are asking for her name - ring the paper up and tell them a load of lies using fake names and addresses to ensure they dont find her ;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8920988/Racist-rant-of-mother-captured-on-camera-phone-shocks-tram-passengers.html

Ring the number and tell them any lie you want ;"

Anonymous said...

Pissed as a fart (and with that poor kid holding a Burberry). She HAS to be EDL.

Anonymous said...

She HAS to be EDL

I was thinking Croydon BNP....Remember Charlotte Lewis ?

Anonymous said...

Who would want to be stuck on a train with someone like her?!?

Anonymous said...

Remember Charlotte Lewis ?

Can't be her, she has never had a baby or a job!

Anonymous said...

I would suggest that the woman is given a Train Asbo, stopping her allowing to travel on all trains and underground trains for five years, the thick racist moron.

He's obvioulsly an EDLer.

You cam just tell. It's in the ways she doesn't even have the mental capacity to say something more in keeping with the BNP's more organised modus oprandi of racism.

Anonymous said...

That poor bloody child.

Anonymous said...

Is this her sister ? > http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=715_1314132581

Anonymous said...

It's gone up to 353,394 views now.

Anonymous said...

"She's not he's..." Typing on a blackberry about such stupid racists gets cumbersome, and my fingers get intensely numb through overtyping.

It's so easy to rave on about how braindead these EDLers are.

For fuck sake, give that someone give that stupid racist woman a brain transplant.

No wander britain doesn't have elected fascists in parliament. They are all thick as two fuckin' short planks.

paul from sheffield said...

Thanks for putting up this video Ketlan. Do you think you could please republish this "ATTACK OF THE EDL ZOMBIES" (caption) picture as it encapsulates everything intesely moronic, pug ugly, cheap and nasty about these drunken neo-nazi scum!

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/images/2011/03/476541.jpg

Cheers, mate!

Anonymous said...

its not charlotte lewis. wrong shape, wrong hair colour! heres some pictures of her, lest you forget:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1266437/Revealed-The-burkha-fishnet-stocking-clad-BNP-candidate-called-foreign-criminals-executed.html

her message is the same though.

Anonymous said...

Just another pissed-up racist chav.

Anonymous said...

"It's gone up to 353,394 views now."

Zooooom! Now 1,348,629.

Anonymous said...

She should hook up with the Muslamic Ray Gun guy.

Kev Scott Loves the Jam said...

Anonymous said...

She should hook up with the Muslamic Ray Gun guy.


Anonymous said...

That poor bloody child.


Can you imagine what kind of adult that child would turn into :-(

ex-fascist said...

"The Telegraph newspaper are trying to stitch up a woman who dared express her opinion"

That's an opinion? I didn't hear anything throughout the whole video that could be classed as a legitimate "opinion", it was just an abusive racist rant.

I wonder if her and Barnes are related?

Anonymous said...

What the hell!!!!! all that swearing with her kid and all the other kids!!!! its discusting!!! stupid cow tho couldnt even name a country she is a discrace to the british public people like her are what are ruining this country not blacks!!

B31 Antifascist said...

I cannot watch this. Why is the sixty four thousand dollar question. Is this happening in TWENTY ELEVEN?

Questions need to be asked in Parliament over certain newspapers failure to root out racial hatred from their online comments. What is happening is that after reading the most vicious racist (and otherwise) bigotry and hate speech at the foot of online news stories, racists think its okay to use that same hate speech in public. This is totally unacceptable in modern Britain and I would advise antifascists to write to their (non-Tory) MPs on this matter before the problem of racist rants upon innocent people becomes widespread and uncontrollable.

At least the Morning Star disables its online comments for each story, disagree with what you read leave the website sort of thing...

B31 Antifascist said...

And here's Lee Barnes, the BNP's former 'legal advisor':

"Ring This Number - Pass It On

The Telegraph newspaper are trying to stitch up a woman who dared express her opinion on a tram in London about immigration and are asking for her name.....

No. They (Daily Telegraph) would rather pay Dr David Starkey to express his racist opinion instead.

Anonymous said...

"Anonymous said...

She should hook up with the Muslamic Ray Gun guy."

That would greatly increase the risk of him procreating. Very bad idea.

Anonymous said...

I am not a lover iof social workers but this id a case for WSocial Services to intervene. A pissed up violent (presumably ) mother- obviously this child is at risk and should be taken into care if he is not already on the at risk register. Perhaps a disk of thisvideo shold be sent to LB Croydon social services. I regret I have not got the euipment to do so myself,

Old Sailor

Anonymous said...

Her identity is obvious

Foul Mouthed
An Essex accent
Mental Problems
Clasping a Small boy

It can only be Lee Barnes Former Legal Direcer of the BNP and well known Nutzie in Drag

Old Sailor

Anonymous said...

nutter says bill of loughton

Anonymous said...

There may be a BNP link to this woman. The person arrested is called Emma West, 34 of New Addington.

On facebook an "Emma West" is liking loads of BNP themed pages including this one

"Make Luke North Mayor of Tilbury - BNP"

Anonymous said...

I just read in the local newspaper that this woman suffers from depression and has been remanded in custody for psychiatric evaluation. She was said to be crying throughout the court appearance. She is obviously a vulnerable woman who needs help and treatment, not hatred and ridicule.

Anonymous said...

Amazingly this video has reached 3,438,078 hits (so far). Viral or what.

B31 Antifascist said...

On facebook an "Emma West" is liking loads of BNP themed pages including this one

"Make Luke North Mayor of Tilbury - BNP"

I did indeed pluck up the courage to watch it, as sickening as it was. I really felt sorry for her child - it could well have been me. I had a very racist mother and grandmother and I really hope young master West questions the racist bullshit mummy will undoubtedly spoonfeed him throughout his school years.

Apparently, she's a dental nurse.

She WAS a dental nurse, one can now safely say.

Anonymous said...

Does she make you proud to be British?? She makes me wish I was Australian in actual fact.

Anonymous said...

Again, there's still much ignorance and bigotry on the comments section of her channel (ladyk89), much much more so than the rantings of Emma West herself it seems. The fascists are trying to hijack it.

Anonymous said...

I just read in the local newspaper that this woman suffers from depression and has been remanded in custody for psychiatric evaluation. She was said to be crying throughout the court appearance. She is obviously a vulnerable woman who needs help and treatment, not hatred and ridicule.

Really? She didn't seem all that 'vunerable' when she was abusing people.

Maybe she was crying because she got found out and realises that actions have consequences and that society is less accepting on open racism that it once was.

No sympathy.