{"id":578162,"date":"2025-11-18T11:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578162\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:27:31","slug":"couple-wanted-over-racist-assault-at-london-tube-station-believed-to-have-fled-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578162\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple wanted over racist assault at London tube station believed to have fled country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police investigating a racially aggravated assault<\/a> in central London<\/a> believe the couple they wish to speak to is no longer in the UK.<\/p>\n

The British Transport Police<\/a> (BTP) had released a photo of the pair, a man and woman, and issued an appeal to identify them following an incident on 11 October.<\/p>\n

BTP sought to question them about an assault<\/a> that occurred at the entrance of Bond Street<\/a> Tube station<\/a> that involved a woman who was with her sister and two young children, one of whom was in a pushchair.<\/p>\n

The police stated that they believe the couple left the country following the assault. A spokesperson for the force said the man is thought to have departed the UK on 14 October, and the woman on 24 October.<\/p>\n

This was before BTP published their media appeal.<\/p>\n

\"Officers<\/p>\n

Officers said they believe the man and woman \u2018do not reside in the UK\u2019 (British Transport Police)<\/p>\n

Officers said they believe the man and woman \u201cdo not reside in the UK\u201d.<\/p>\n

The incident started when a man and woman were walking together in front of the family into the station and the woman collided with the pushchair at around 7:30pm.<\/p>\n

The man then began shouting racial abuse at the victim and her family, before the woman grabbed her hair, police said.<\/p>\n

When the victim tried to defend herself the man pulled out a small bottle and said it was pepper spray before spraying it in the direction of the victim and her family, officers said.<\/p>\n

BTP said the woman shouted abuse and made lewd gestures at them before both groups left the scene.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the force said: \u201cWe continue efforts to make contact with and speak to them, and from there we will determine the next steps in the investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in contact with the victim and her family and are keeping them updated regularly as the investigation continues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police investigating a racially aggravated assault in central London believe the couple they wish to speak to is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[183058,748,1221,18046,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-578162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-aggravated-assault","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-british-transport-police","11":"tag-btp","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115570465767570628","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578162","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=578162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}