New Zealand: Muslim women Abused by ‘drunk woman’

Mehpara Khan. Photo: Breakfast

Wellington, 15 Jumadil Awwal 1438/13 February 2017 (MINA) – A shocking video shows the moment a ‘drunk’ woman appears to attack a group of Muslim women-all wearing hijabs, Mirror.co.uk reported.

Mehpara Khan, 28, had stopped to use public toilets with her two friends in Huntly, New Zealand, when they were subjected to horrendous abuse by a “heavily intoxicated woman”.

The woman appears to tell the group to move their car, before picking up a beer can and hurling it towards the friends.

Mehpara says: “I was born here, I have the right to be here.”

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But the woman replies: “I don’t care if you were born here, you don’t have the right to be here.”

She then continues shouting expletive-ridden insults at the woman.

A shocking video shows the moment a ‘drunk’ woman appears to attack a group of Muslim women – all wearing hijabs.

Mehpara Khan, 28, had stopped to use public toilets with her two friends in Huntly, New Zealand, when they were subjected to horrendous abuse by a “heavily intoxicated woman”.

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The woman appears to tell the group to move their car, before picking up a beer can and hurling it towards the friends.

Mehpara says: “I was born here, I have the right to be here.”

But the woman replies: “I don’t care if you were born here, you don’t have the right to be here.”

She then continues shouting expletive-ridden insults at the woman.

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The attacker, Megan Sarah Louise Walton today pleaded guilty in the Hamilton District Court on three charges over the incident.

According to New Zealand news site News Now, the 27-year-old woman, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to assaulting the Muslim woman, assault with a weapon and behaving in an insulting matter likely to cause violence.

A police prosecutor said Walton was “heavily intoxicated” during the incident and says she does not remember what happened.

Walton received bail and is due to appear again in court on February 15.(T/RE1/P2)

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