I cannot believe that these girls/women have not been charged with racial vilification. Their statements as they thrashed the old man were loud and clear.

Thanks for that qualified support Poirot. I think the solution to OTB is just to ignore him. You don't have to respond to his efforts. I know that can be hard to do, as I'm partial to biting back on occasion as well, but in the end, nothing much hangs on the criticism of an anonymous poster on a comment thread.

Chris, I think a conviction for assault is likely to be swifter and more satisfying than trying them for racial villification. It would be hard not to see a court convicting them too. Not sure whether you noticed, but one was on bail for armed robbery. No judge is going to be too considerate of her feelings.

Let's hope they hide the jail key for some time for those two. I think this is a perfect time to show that people have had enough of such spoilt morons. The time is right to throw the book at them & scare others into reconsidering that mentality.
I'd like to see them put to some good physical work whilst in jail.

individual,
Do you really think prison time actually has any effect on any type of crime.
If the justice system was swift and there were no free legal giants and the time behind bars included minimum social attachments and maximum hard labor perhaps with a daily dose of the lash there might be a deterrent but not the way the present system works.
When I was in the court system as a police prosecutor more than half the sentence for an offense was based on precedents (criminal record and associations etc.) today most of the sentence is generated with reference to the future of the offender and the victim is forgotten.
Wrong, wrong, Wrong.

chrisgaff1000,
That wouldn't be the case if we had a moral justice system run by heterosexuals.

individual,
Ops!