A ROUGH sleeper had his shoes stolen by cruel yobs who then hurled a bottle of milk over him. The homeless man was laying out his bed for the night in a shop doorway in Leeds when he was attacked by the thugs. The yobs screamed in the homeless man’s face who pleaded with them […]
A ROUGH sleeper had his shoes stolen by cruel yobs who then hurled a bottle of milk over him.
The homeless man was laying out his bed for the night in a shop doorway in Leeds when he was attacked by the thugs.
The yobs screamed in the homeless man’s face who pleaded with them to leave him alone and offered to walk away.
One of the men then shouted that he would “walk barefoot” and grabbed the homeless man’s trainers.
Egged on his by sneering pals, the vile yob then poured a large bottle of milk over the helpless rough sleeper.
He then hit the victim in the face with the empty carton before sauntering off with his shoes.
The city centre attack was filmed in Briggate, one of the busiest shopping streets in Leeds.
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The cowardly attack had chilling echoes of the scene in A Clockwork Orange movie in which bully Alex and his gang humiliate a tramp before beating him up.
The video was filmed on Snapchat before it circulated on social media on Saturday night, with shocked parents sharing the footage.
Volunteer David Hedley, who ran last year’s ten-day ‘Tent City’, said: “I’ve spoken to parents and taken down the video – it had thousands of shares in a few minutes and went a bit crackers.
“It’s despicable behaviour. Our outreach will be passing Briggate and we will look out for this victim.”
Sun Online have contacted West Yorkshire Police.
The attack is the latest in an alarming number of assaults on rough sleepers.
Last week a homeless man was kicked and punched in the face repeatedly in an unprovoked attack in Blackburn town centre.
In a separate incident, a homeless man was left with a nasty head injury after he was targeted by a group of thugs in Blackpool town centre in September.
Thugs Harry Sharman, 22, and Connor Pendergast, 19, were jailed for the attack in the doorway of a Boots.
Meanwhile yob Aaron Jones sprayed homeless man Michael Cash with red paint in September 2018.
Filming the attack, Jones said: “This is how we deal with beggars on the street”, adding “he’s not even a beggar…there he is, sprayed to death.”
Mr Cash was found dead in a cemetery four days after being blasted with red paint.
Jones, who was subsequently charged with assault and criminal damage, turned up to court wearing a Frankenstein mask, and was handed a community order.
