Woman Attacked In Scotland 'because She Sounded English'

A young woman who comes from England originally has been viciously assaulted in a Scottish city center in what police are treating as a racially motivated attack. Lucy Newman, 22, said she was hit so hard that she fell, hitting the pavement and fracturing her left cheekbone.

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