{"id":143075,"date":"2023-11-14T21:20:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T21:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=143075"},"modified":"2023-11-14T21:20:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T21:20:31","slug":"pm-brands-attack-on-poppy-seller-repulsive-as-police-investigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/world-news\/pm-brands-attack-on-poppy-seller-repulsive-as-police-investigate\/","title":{"rendered":"PM brands attack on poppy seller &apos;repulsive&apos; as police investigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>PM brands attack on poppy seller &#8216;repulsive&#8217; as police confirm they&#8217;re investigating<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jim Henderson says he was \u2018kicked\u2019 and \u2018punched\u2019 after pro-Palestinian demonstrators flooded Edinburgh\u2019s Waverley Station on Saturday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rishi Sunak\u2019s official spokesman says he\u2019s confident police will use \u2018full force of the law\u2019 to find attackers\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rishi Sunak yesterday condemned the \u2018repulsive\u2019 assault on a veteran poppy seller who was caught up in a pro-Palestine rally.<\/p>\n<p>As police hunt the attackers, the PM\u2019s spokesman praised Jim Henderson and others who had made \u2018huge sacrifices\u2019<\/p>\n<p>for their country after the Mail revealed the pensioner\u2019s ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Henderson, who told the Mail he had served with the Army in Northern Ireland, was \u2018punched\u2019 and \u2018kicked\u2019 while manning a poppy stall at Edinburgh\u2019s Waverley s<span>tation on Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Social media footage shows the 78-year-old trying to escape, but the attack ended only when railway staff shoved the demonstrators away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/07\/19\/77520279-12721997-image-m-21_1699385217101.jpg\" height=\"537\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rishi Sunak yesterday condemned the \u2018repulsive\u2019 assault of veteran poppy seller Jim Henderson<\/p>\n<p>About 1,200 people had descended on the railway station to protest against Israeli attacks in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The incident fuelled calls for the postponement of another pro-Palestine protest planned for London on Armistice Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s official spokesman said: \u2018This was a repulsive act.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Henderson, like all our veterans, has made huge sacrifices for our country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are confident the police will treat this incident very seriously and use the full force of the law available to them.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Humza Yousaf also condemned the actions of some demonstrators, despite the First Minister supporting plans to protest on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said: \u2018We would deprecate any action of that sort and that would be properly a matter for the police and anyone who indulges in illegality, assault; it should properly be a matter for the police and potentially prosecution.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/07\/22\/77520305-12721997-Protesters_flooded_Waverly_Street_station_last_Saturday_afternoo-a-17_1699397363383.jpg\" height=\"578\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Protesters flooded Waverley Station last Saturday afternoon<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/07\/19\/77520303-12721997-image-a-22_1699385233272.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jim Henderson, circled, was \u2018kicked\u2019 and \u2018punched\u2019 by the demonstrators\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on LBC\u2019s Nick Ferrari at Breakfast radio show, Westminster Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said the assault on Mr Henderson had \u2018sent a shudder down [his] spine, adding: \u2018It\u2019s truly, truly appalling.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018If something like that was happening or there was a public order incident, I would expect, I would hope and expect, the police to step in very robustly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The police should be there to protect people like that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u2018It seems to me that where there are incidents of public disorder and, by the way, the offences are there \u2013 threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour which causes harassment, alarm or distress \u2013 that is an offence and if that is taking place, whether because people are calling out jihad or whatever it is, then I would expect the police to be stepping in.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Following his ordeal, Mr Henderson said: \u2018I was getting shoved backwards, in danger of falling, and one of them stood on my foot and split my toe.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018So I thought I had got to get the money out of here. So I went down, and as I bent down someone punched me in the back.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And then I got another punch in my side.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He said he managed to get up and was rescued by three women wearing red railway uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Henderson added: \u2018I\u2019ve never known anything like it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Chanting. Saying it\u2019s all about the British Government, British people, Jews.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The pensioner, who told the Mail he served in the Royal Corps of Signals, 32 Signal Regiment during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, insisted that he was attacked on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018You don\u2019t do that, and kick someone from behind, and that was when I couldn\u2019t get out of the way. That\u2019s when I bent down and&#8230; bang.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Last night Assistant Chief Constable Sean O\u2019Callaghan of British Transport Police said: \u2018Detectives from British Transport Police are investigating a reported assault at Edinburgh Waverley Station on Saturday, November 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are working with ScotRail regarding the investigation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Former Army officer and defence commentator Stuart Crawford said the fact that a 78-year-old selling poppies was \u2018beaten up by a baying mob&#8230; in Edinburgh\u2019s main railway station just shows how far we have plummeted as a society\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12721997\/PM-brands-attack-poppy-seller-repulsive-police-confirm-theyre-investigating.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM brands attack on poppy seller &#8216;repulsive&#8217; as police confirm they&#8217;re investigating Jim Henderson says he was \u2018kicked\u2019 and \u2018punched\u2019 after pro-Palestinian demonstrators flooded Edinburgh\u2019s Waverley Station on Saturday\u00a0 Rishi Sunak\u2019s official spokesman says he\u2019s confident police will use \u2018full force of the law\u2019 to find attackers\u00a0 Rishi Sunak yesterday condemned the \u2018repulsive\u2019 assault on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PM brands attack on poppy seller &amp;apos;repulsive&amp;apos; 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