An angry would-be robber punched and kicked a 60-year-old woman in a Leicester street, because she looked like his mother, a court heard. Asif Hussain (30), who has mental health problems, had just argued with his mother and felt aggrieved because she would not give him any money. He targeted the voluntary worker, who was walking with a friend in Leicester's Melton Road, and tried to steal her handbag, at 11.30 am on July 5 last year. At Leicester Crown Court, Neil Bannister, prosecuting, said:...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 6 hours ago.
An angry would-be robber punched and kicked a 60-year-old woman in a Leicester street, because she looked like his mother, a court heard. Asif Hussain (30), who has mental health problems, had just argued with his mother and felt aggrieved because she would not give him any money. He targeted the voluntary worker, who was walking with a friend in Leicester's Melton Road, and tried to steal her handbag, at 11.30 am on July 5 last year. At Leicester Crown Court, Neil Bannister, prosecuting, said:...
Reported by Leicester Mercury 6 hours ago.