A woman has recalled her horror after her cat returned home with a live rabbit in its mouth. Louise had just woken up from a long lie when she found her eight-year-old rescue pet Gizmo with the bunny in his jaws.
20.05.2024 - 08:37 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots schoolgirl was left battered and bruised after a vicious attack by a gang who tried to set her hair on fire.
Tanith Bavaird, 16, suffered a sickening assault after a gang of around 12 teens repeatedly kicked, punched and stamped on her, during a horrific incident in East Kilbride last year.
The music lover had just left a recording session at Universal Connections near the Dollan Baths in the Lanarkshire town, at around 6.20pm, when the group surrounded her and launched a sickening attack, which only ended when a teenage boy told the girls to stop or they would 'kill her', Glasgow Live reports.
Tanith was left with blood missing chunks of hair, ripped clothes and bruises on her face and body after the gang rattled her head off the kerb during the ordeal.
Now mum Sharon Bavaird, 48, has told of the moment she received a call from her daughter 'in hysterics' after she was beaten by the gang.
Sharon said: "I froze when I picked up the phone, she was in hysterics.
"I told her to go to the police station which is close and I would get a taxi from work to meet her there.
"When I got there I was heartbroken, she has lovely thick hair and chunks had been ripped out of them, she was red and bleeding from the cuts and her clothes were falling apart from where they had been ripped.
"She told me that they circled her while the ringleader approached and grabbed her by the hair before pulling her to the ground while the rest started kicking, punching and stamping on her. I think it was only the fact that she had washed her hair that morning that saved her because they tried to light her hair on fire but it wouldn't light.
"She doesn't know how long it lasted because of the shock but I think they would have seriously hurt her or
A woman has recalled her horror after her cat returned home with a live rabbit in its mouth. Louise had just woken up from a long lie when she found her eight-year-old rescue pet Gizmo with the bunny in his jaws.
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