A man was knocked out and left with a broken nose and fractured jaw after he intervened to stop a 'racially-motivated hate crime' in the street.
Clive Pyott, 50, says he saw two men attacking an Asian boy on Stretford Road in Hulme, Manchester on August 24. He said he heard two men screaming 'speak f***ing English' as they punched the boy and repeatedly stamped on him. Clive, who runs a street food stall in the city centre he said: "I heard some noise outside the front of my house, so I went outside."I saw two men running up the street past the bus stop. One of them ran up to an Asian boy and just punched him."He fell on the floor and then they stamped on his face while shouting 'speak f***ing English'."Clive said he intervened after he saw the men stamped on the boy's head 'about five times'.He said: "I shouted 'the guy's on the floor, leave him be'. I don't have a great recollection after that, but I think one of the men said to me 'you want to be next?'"Clive said he blacked out after being hit.
Footage taken by a passer-by shows a man approach Clive before knocking him to the ground. The attackers are then seen running into a pub. He said: "When I came around, I went back to my house covered in blood. I phone the police, who then dispatched an ambulance."I left the hospital at seven the next morning, with a broken nose and a fractured jaw. The main concern for me is that these guys committed a racial attack that should never happen."It's a racially motivated attack - a hate crime."
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: "Shortly before 11.35pm on Saturday, August 24, police were called to Stretford Road, Hulme to reports that a man had been assaulted."The report stated that the victim had spotted another man being assaulted and attempted to verbally intervene before the offender attacked him."The victim sustained serious injuries to his face as well as cuts to his leg and wrist.""Enquiries into the incident are ongoing and anybody with information is asked to contact police."