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Teenage girls charged over pensioner assault

Published: 10:36 AM January 21, 2010    Updated: 1:28 PM October 14, 2020

TWO girls have been charged with the racially aggravated assault of an elderly couple on board an Overground train in Camden. British Transport Police has charged the 17-year-olds, from Finsbury Park and Plaistow. They appeared at Thames Youth Court in Bo

TWO girls have been charged with the racially aggravated assault of an elderly couple on board an Overground train in Camden.

British Transport Police has charged the 17-year-olds, from Finsbury Park and Plaistow.

They appeared at Thames Youth Court in Bow yesterday.

The couple, both aged 63, were assaulted on August 4 between Finchley Road and Frognal and Gospel Oak stations.

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