Moorhouse’s statement, read out in court, said: “When I tried to walk away the female pulled me back by my ponytail, causing my head to go backwards.<\/p>\n
“They were very racist towards me – they seemed to want to make everything a conversation about immigrants – and calling me a slave.”<\/p>\n
The court heard when another woman had intervened and told Michael Bairstow to get away from Moorhouse, he punched her to the face and said: “Sticking up for immigrants, who do you think you are?”<\/p>\n
After the hearing, the couple were bailed with conditions not to go to Manor Heath Park or contact Moorhouse.<\/p>\n
Speaking outside court, Moorhouse, who is a British citizen, said she had felt less safe after the incident and “keeps looking over my shoulder”.<\/p>\n
“I feel anxious obviously, every time that I think back, I feel upset,” she said. “It’s a big thing, racism, and it needs to be dealt with.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been here since 2009 and never had anything like this before. For 10 years, it was fine but now it’s got worse.<\/p>\n
“I used to work in healthcare and I wanted to go back but I felt scared… this happened and I just didn’t go back.<\/p>\n
“Caring was my passion but then this happened and it was hard to go back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moorhouse’s statement, read out in court, said: “When I tried to walk away the female pulled me back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}