New information has been revealed about the vile beating of an Indian man in Tallaght, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. The victim, a recently-arrived immigrant to Ireland to work, was stabbed, robbed, and left to die at the hands of a gang of teenagers in what is being reported as a racially-motivated attack.
Jennifer Murray, a native Irish woman who jumped to the rescue of the man, gave an emotional account of what happened in a Facebook video. According to her, the assault is not an isolated case and the very same gang has assaulted at least four other Indians in the recent past.
“Your teenagers are roaming around stabbing innocent men in the face,” she told the community.
Brutal Assault Followed by False Accusation
Murray was driving around 6 PM on Saturday when she spotted the man, “completely covered in blood,” pleading for help. She immediately brought him to her parked car and called emergency services.
The teenagers allegedly concocted a false narrative, accusing the man of pedophilia to justify the assault. They claimed he had been found with his pants down in a playground—an accusation Murray firmly rejected.
“An individual man hadn’t done this. An individual, I knew immediately,” she told him.
Murray said the victim was nice, kind, and very polite and that he had only just arrived in Ireland a week ago, having been brought in by Amazon. He is a graduate of one of India’s top colleges and has a wife and a baby who is just 11 months old back in India.
Attacked on His Way to Pray
Murray told the man was headed for a temple for prayers when attacked from behind.
“They hit him on the head with what I can only describe as blades in between their knuckles. He fell, all covered in blood,” she explained. “He has huge wounds. The blood did not cease from his nose the entire hour that I sat with him.”
She went on to say that the perpetrators took away his trousers, underwear, shoes, phone, and bank cards—all of them—and left him buck naked on the pavement.
“They left him to die… they very, very easily could have killed him by what they did,” she continued.
Murray’s Act of Humanity
The experience left the man extremely embarrassed. Murray provided him with a blanket from her vehicle and accompanied him until the arrival of the ambulance, more than an hour later.
He was so humiliated,” she cried, describing how he kept thanking her for assisting him in his degrading condition.
Jennifer Murray’s tearful evidence has ignited outrage and a call for justice, with demands to probe the attack as a hate crime and prosecute the attackers coming into increasing focus.
