{"id":34732,"date":"2017-05-23T10:03:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T10:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/man-jailed-for-pregnant-woman-attack-at-bletchley\/"},"modified":"2017-05-23T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T10:03:31","slug":"man-jailed-for-pregnant-woman-attack-at-bletchley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/man-jailed-for-pregnant-woman-attack-at-bletchley\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for pregnant woman attack at Bletchley Co-op"},"content":{"rendered":"

{A “shabby racist” who repeatedly kicked a pregnant Muslim woman, resulting in her losing her unborn baby, has been jailed for almost four years.}<\/p>\n

David Gallacher, 37, of no fixed address, attacked Samsam Haji-Ali, 34, and her husband outside a Co-op in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, in August.<\/p>\n

He admitted actual bodily harm, assault by beating and two counts of racially or religiously aggravated assault.<\/p>\n

The judge called him a “thug and a racist to boot.”<\/p>\n

Aylesbury Crown Court heard Somali Ms Haji-Ali was racially abused by Gallacher in the Water Eaton Road shop on 4 August.<\/p>\n

He swore at her and said: “You come here with your clown outfit on…”<\/p>\n

As her husband Abdullah Sulamain, 40, attempted to calm him down in the car park outside, Gallacher hit him on the head with a bottle of wine and a bag of ice.<\/p>\n

He then kicked Ms Haji-Ali in the stomach.<\/p>\n

Judge Francis Sheridan said: “She told him she was pregnant and he continued to kick her again, after he was told she was pregnant.<\/p>\n

“She is left rolling around on the ground in agony and later found there is bleeding, before she lost the baby.”<\/p>\n

Ms Haji-Ali miscarried on 24 August.<\/p>\n

Judge Sheridan said her pregnancy had been “absolutely fine” before the attack, and in his view “the loss of that baby was a direct result of a kick to the stomach of a pregnant woman”.<\/p>\n

He told Gallacher: “There was a racial element to this attack.<\/p>\n

“The defendant is a shabby racist on the language that he used towards this lady.<\/p>\n

“It is time you learnt that your vile conduct and abhorrent views are a thing of the past.”<\/p>\n

Gallacher admitted two counts of racially aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm and three counts of assaulting a police officer during his arrest in September last year.<\/p>\n

He was jailed for three years and seven months for the race attacks and four months for the officer assault, to run consecutively.<\/p>\n

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Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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