Story out of Bletchley, England:
A man has been arrested following an allegedly racially-motivated attack on a pregnant woman which caused her to lose her baby.
CCTV footage emerged which appeared to show a man verbally abusing a 34-year-old woman while shopping at a Co-op store in Bletchley, near Milton Keynes.
The unnamed woman ignored the man but was then followed to her car where the suspect kicked her repeatedly causing her to fall to the ground, at around 9.40pm on 6 August.
She was later rushed to hospital after sustaining kicks to the abdomen, but doctors were unable to save her baby.
A 40-year-old man was also hit on the head with a bag of ice and a bottle after he tried to help the woman.
Thames Valley Police confirmed a 37-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of racially aggravated assault and is currently being held in custody.
This comes as the National Police Chiefs' Council confirmed a sustained increase in the recorded number of hate crimes following the vote to leave the European Union on 23 June.
The rise in post-Brexit hate crime reports peaked at nearly 60 per cent higher than the same point in 2015 in July and was still 14 per cent higher on the same point in 2015 during August. Cont. (Video)
Story from - The Independent
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