UK: Racist attackers jailed (1)
01 January 1991
UK: Racist attackers jailed
artdoc March=1995
Two men, who took part in a vicious racist attack on a black man
in Birmingham, were jailed for 13 years at Birmingham Crown Court
in October. Clive Forbes was attacked by Jason Craney and Paul
Corbett while walking with his partner, who was eight months
pregnant. He was chased into his flat and forced to jump from a
second floor window. On landing he broke a leg and as he lay on
the ground was beaten unconscious. He required surgery to remove
a clot on his brain and had four operations on his leg. Charges
of attempted murder were dropped and the two men pleaded guilty
to causing grievous bodily harm. While the sentence handed out
to Clive Forbes' attackers reflects the severity of the attack,
this is not the case with a youth who was part of a gang that
attacked eighteen year old Mukhta Ahmed in Bethnal Green, east
London last February.
Mukhta was beaten so badly that his scalp was detached from his
skull. He was left with grotesque facial injuries and was in
hospital for a month. Nicky Fuller, who took part in the attack
and boasted to friends about it, was sentenced to 11 months in
a young offenders institution; he walked free from court having
already served his sentence on remand.
The Clive Forbes Support Committee can be contacted c/o 346 Soho
Road, Handsworth, Birmingham.
Statewatch, Vol 4 no 6, November-December 1994