Feral yobs attack and bite NHS worker after smashing up bus
24.04.2024 - 08:33
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
An NHS worker has told of her terror after she was attacked by 'out of control' yobs on her bus journey home.
Diane Hawthorn had just finished her shift at St John's Hospital when the feral gang, aged between 12-13, began hurling slurs at passengers and smashed an upstairs window on the vehicle at around 7pm on April 17.
The group were asked to leave the bus by the driver, but confronted Diane after making their way downstairs. The 40-year-old, from Whitburn, claims they then smashed another window next to her face and pulled her off the bus by her hair.
Diane said one child then "sunk her teeth" into her knee during the horrific assault.
Speaking to the Record, Diane said: "I was on the bus on my way back from work and there were young folk upstairs making a racket and breaking stuff.
"They broke a window and were shouting insults out the window.
"They then came downstairs and one got up in my face, grabbed my hair and pulled me off the bus.
"The driver and another man on the bus were trying to get her off me, but she got hold of my hair again and pulled me onto the ground.
"She had a grip of my hair, and was trying to knee my stomach. I was trying to stand up to get away and she sank her teeth into my knee.
"The driver and the man then managed to get her off me but she was still trying to lunge at me.
"Then she threw a stone at the bus window and the glass cracked. She started punching the window with her fist to make the hole bigger.
"The driver phoned the police and they came along and looked at all the damage up and downstairs. They took a statement from me.
"Then my fiance came and picked me up. I was shaking like a leaf!"
Diane has been left black and blue after the shocking incident and the skin around her knee is cut and