Police appeal after youths attacked in Tower Hamlets park
Published:
5:13 PM August 4, 2017
Updated:
8:48 AM October 14, 2020
Weavers Fields (Picture: Google Maps) - Credit: Google Maps
Police have said that an apparently unprovoked attack on teenagers by three men is being treated as a hate crime.
The victims, all in their early teens, were approached and assaulted by three men in Weavers Fields, Bethnal Green, at around 5pm on Tuesday, July 25, in what they told police was an unprovoked attack.
The Metropolitan Police said the incident, which is being treated as a hate crime, left the teenagers bruised and shocked.
The suspects, aged between 30 and 40, are described as white men with eastern European accents.
Enquiries continue with no arrests made so far.
You may also want to watch:
Anyone with information should call police on 101 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Most Read
- 1 'Racist consultation' protest rejected on Tower Hamlets street closures as Labour sticks to its manifesto
- 2 The Queen lends her name to Royal London’s emergency Covid wards
- 3 Ethnic communities not taking up Covid jabs, Tower Hamlets Mayor warns
- 4 Airbnb house party violence leaves police officer with broken finger
- 5 No injuries but 20 rescued as firefighters tackle Limehouse blaze
- 6 Police raid cannabis factory near Liverpool Street station: 2 arrests
- 7 Council fined for Alexia Walenkaki's playground death in Mile End and says sorry to family
- 8 Streets around proposed Chinese embassy building could be renamed after persecuted Muslims
- 9 Police hunt after stabbing in Cable Street: One man hurt
