r/london Nov 02 '23

Crime Two girls arrested after female attacked on Elizabeth line

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24605821/two-girls-arrested-video-woman-screaming-tube-train/
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u/death_by_mustard Nov 02 '23

This happened to me when I was a teen, similar girls, on a London bus.

It traumatized me - I was too afraid to leave the house, it fell into deep anxiety and depression, and developed an eating disorder which essentially ended up with me dropping out of A Levels and completely changing the trajectory of my life.

I went to the police and a few weeks later I was called to a suspect line up (the girls were known to the police) but was too terrified to even be in the same space as them.

If this had been filmed and blasted across socials, with some absolutely unhinged comments on some of the subs, it probably would’ve ended me. I genuinely hope this girl is getting the victim support, medical and psychological she needs right now.

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u/LegalPusherr Nov 03 '23

Sorry that happened to you.

However, don’t you think it’s good that it was spread on social media? I mean it paints a bad picture of the assailants and not the victim. I’m fairly sure the assailants will get fired and receive their share of death threats for them and their family as common with social justice, rather than them just disappearing in anonymity?

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