An Indian store helper suffered a broken jaw after being trodden by a gang of racist thugs who abused him when he tried to stop them attacking a woman in Edinburgh in Scotland.
Twenty one-year old Pankaj Rawat was walking home after a night out when he intervened to protect the woman on Waverley Bridge.
But he was strike with a volley of racial abuse before being punched to the ground by one of the men in the group of five before another repeatedly kicked him.
He said he was called an Indian b****** by the thugs. Rawat, who moved from India to Edinburgh 18 months ago, was rushed to hospital, where he had a metal plate fitted to his fractured jaw.
Now he has lost his job with a city clothes shop after his bosses were unable to give him four weeks off work to recover from his injuries.
Police are appealing for help in tracing the five men involved in the incident, who fled down Princes Street.
Rawat told Edinburgh Evening News: "I'd been out for a friend's gathering at Mood and was on foot back to my home in Tollcross with another friend. As we were crossing Waverley Bridge, I saw two Scottish men shouting at a woman. One of them was pushing her and trying to kiss her, and she was shouting for help."
"I told them to leave her alone or I would call the police. The men who was pushing the woman came over to me and asked where I was from. I told him I was from India and then he started uproar.
"I told him I didn't want any harms, but he couldn't do that to a woman. He kept making racial remarks then he punched me on the side of the cheek. He punched me a second time and I knock out to the ground."
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