Tag: robbery

Two days before San Diego’s July 12 – 14 Pride weekend, an anonymous man called the event organizers to tell them, “I think I’m going to have to kill all the gays and the children. I hate the f*ggots.” He hung up and reportedly called back minutes later to say, “F*ck Donald Trump. I hate Hillary. I hate f*gs. I’m going to shoot up the Pride event.” San Diego police identified the caller as a 31-year-old man named Andre Lafayette Holmes....

Not only leaving him bleeding, but the gang left with the victim's car, too A man was subjected to a horrific homophobic attack and robbery as he walked through a park in South London last weekend (7 April) The 36-year-old victim was walking on Blackheath Common, South London, when a group of six men set upon him, according to the Metro. They punched him repeatedly in the face, strangled him, dragged him unconscious by the hood, and fled in his car. What happened? A...

Gay guy attacked on evening after Pride in London speaks to GSN from his hospital bed about facing a lifetime of impaired vision A gay man is facing a lifetime of blindness in one eye after an attack and robbery outside a gay club in London. Lewis Davis, a 37-year-old marketing assistant for luxury beauty brands, was out with two friends celebrating after Pride in London on Saturday night (8 July). Arriving into Soho at 8.30pm, the three friends realized the main...

A jail sentence has been upheld for a man who beat up and robbed a gay man in a park in Nottingham. Andrew Mark Perry was last November jailed for nine years for the attack. A jury convicted him of unlawful wounding and robbery. The 43-year-old was one of two masked men who attacked their victim in the Broxtowe park back in November 2015, as he tried to meet a man he had come in contact with using Grindr. London’s Appeal Court on...