Muslim deputy leader of UK’s Green Party suffers racist attack

LONDON: The new deputy leader of the UK’s Green Party and his family were the victims of a racist attack last week, he told The Guardian.

Mothin Ali, a Leeds councillor who was born in Sheffield and has lived in Yorkshire all his life, was elected joint deputy leader of the party this week.

During a trip to the coastal town of Cromer in Norfolk, he and his mother, wife and children were racially abused and attacked by a group on the beach.

“It was a lovely sunny day. I’d been building sandcastles and catching shrimps in rock pools with my six-year-old,” he told The Guardian.

“Suddenly there were these people throwing beer bottles at us and shouting: ‘Get out of our country’ and ‘Paki bastards.’ Then one of them decided to pull his trousers down.”