A shocking video emerged today of a woman going on a rant to patients in a hospital waiting room.
The
two-minute clip, filmed on Saturday night at Ipswich Hospital in
Suffolk, saw the woman shout abuse at students Gina Thompson, 23, of
Nigeria, and her 21-year-old Spanish friend.
The
woman asked them ‘where do you come from’ before saying: ‘You're coming
over here and you're pleading poverty. We are paying taxes you a***holes and we are going down in this crisis.’
The incident took place at 7:30pm in the
hospital’s accident and emergency department waiting room, where Miss
Thompson had gone with her friend who had sprained her ankle playing
sport.Miss Thompson, of
Port Harcourt, Nigeria, is a film and media student at University Campus
Suffolk and has been in the UK for two years, while her friend from
Seville, Spain, arrived last September.
The woman shouted in front of about 20
shocked patients and friends or relatives: ‘What has happened to this
f*****g country’, before directly abusing Miss Thompson who was sitting
down.
She asked her ‘Where do you come from?’, to which Miss Thompson replied: ‘What does it matter where I'm from?’
The woman said: ‘We are paying taxes you a***holes and we are going down in this crisis’, before Miss Thompson replied: ‘Don't call me an a***hole’.
But the woman said: ‘I will, because you're coming over here and you're pleading poverty. I am not well.’
But Miss Thompson responded: ‘You won't
call me an a***hole. I will not accept that. Don't call me an a***hole.
Don't come to my face and insult me. You won't do that. Calling me an
a***hole? Are you alright?’The woman said back: ‘Don't accept it, you fat a***’, before a voice off camera said the police had been called.
The
woman was then apprehended by a group of nurses, paramedics and
security guards, saying: ‘There's a revolution going on here.’
Miss
Thompson told MailOnline after the incident: ‘I was so embarrassed and I
couldn’t do anything because I was stuck in the situation, so we just
had to laugh about it. All the attention was on us.
‘She said I've come here to claim
poverty. That's not true. I'm an international student and I pay £13,000
a year in tuition fees. My friend is a student here from Spain.’It made me feel low of myself. I had
to go back home and question why it was wrong I was here. My friend was
surprised. She was scared, she was terrified.
‘She
kind of felt unsafe afterwards. She is Spanish and her English is not
perfect, but she could sort of understand what the woman was saying.
When she got back home, she said: “Are we in trouble?”
‘This woman was a very normal looking
woman who you wouldn't think would abuse you. How many people are the
same like that? I’m scared.'
A
Suffolk Constabulary spokesman told MailOnline: 'We have arrested and
charged somebody. She has been charged with assault on a police officer,
two counts of racially aggravated assault and two charges of assault.
So, five charges altogether.
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