{"id":408824,"date":"2025-09-08T22:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408824\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T22:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:11:26","slug":"vile-edinburgh-man-spat-in-face-of-young-mum-on-bus-because-her-child-was-crying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408824\/","title":{"rendered":"Vile Edinburgh man spat in face of young mum on bus because ‘her child was crying’"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Edinburgh thug who launched a \u201cshocking and cowardly\u201d assault on a young mother <\/a>by spitting in her face because her young child was crying has been warned he is facing a jail <\/a>sentence.<\/p>\n

Kamil Kurek, 31, carried out the disgusting attack on the woman after shouting and swearing at her during a public service bus journey in Newington <\/a>in Edinburgh last year. The capital\u2019s sheriff court was told the mum boarded the vehicle with her seven year old and two year old children at the city\u2019s Princes Street at around 6pm on July 24 last year.<\/p>\n

Fiscal depute Katie Adams said: “Her two year old [child] was in a pushchair and she sat in the area reserved for prams.<\/p>\n

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“During the course of the journey from Princes Street and along the Bridges the witness\u2019s youngest son began to cry. The accused who had been sitting several rows behind began shouting in Polish.<\/p>\n

“He was heard to shout \u2018f*** off\u2019. The accused then stood up to get off the bus and as he passed by the witness he turned his head and spat on her.<\/p>\n

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“Other passengers immediately challenged the accused and the driver stopped the bus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The driver alerted the police to the assault and after officers attended shortly after Kurek, from Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, was arrested and charged. Defence agent Paul Dunne told the court he would reserve all his mitigation to the sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n

Sheriff John Cook said: “This is a shocking and cowardly offence committed towards a woman with two children on a public service vehicle.<\/p>\n

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“The court therefore requires to consider a custodial sentence. The court will adjourn for the preparation of reports to establish if there is any alternative to custody.”<\/p>\n

Sentence was deferred for a criminal justice social work report and a restriction of liberty order assessment to October 3. Kurek appeared in court yesterday where he pleaded guilty to shouting, swearing and assaulting the woman by spitting on her face while on a bus at Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, on July 24 last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Edinburgh thug who launched a \u201cshocking and cowardly\u201d assault on a young mother by spitting in her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,34379,47869,712,128366,16,15,89095],"class_list":{"0":"post-408824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-princes-street","12":"tag-public-service","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-sheriff-court","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-young-child"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115170973191356011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}