This site uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide services and advertising.
By continuing to browse, you agree to the use of cookies described in our Cookies Policy.
You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site.
To learn more see our Cookies Policy.
She then began asking a shop worker, aged 52, about different kinds of fish.
Without warning she grabbed a large bream and slapped the worker across the face before running out of the store.
Advertisement
The victim believed the assault was filmed by a man standing nearby, who also ran from the scene when challenged by her co-worker.
The girl was described as being ‘Irish, aged between 15 and 18, with blonde, shoulder-length, untidy hair’.
CCTV images of the two suspects Lancashire Police
Lancashire Police
She was identified after police trawled through CCTV footage of the incident.
A police spokesman told the Lancashire Telegraph that the 13-year-old girl had been spoken to by officers and taken part in a ‘community resolution’ in which she sent her victim a letter of apology.
Justice has been served. With a side of tartar sauce, please.
Monday 25 November, 2024
Monday 25 November, 2024
Download our app
Irish girl apologises for slapping shop worker in face with large fish
A TEENAGE GIRL who slapped a shop worker in the face with a large fish has apologised to her victim, UK police have confirmed.
In February, the girl approached the fish counter at an Asda store in Accrington, Lancashire.
She then began asking a shop worker, aged 52, about different kinds of fish.
Without warning she grabbed a large bream and slapped the worker across the face before running out of the store.
The victim believed the assault was filmed by a man standing nearby, who also ran from the scene when challenged by her co-worker.
The girl was described as being ‘Irish, aged between 15 and 18, with blonde, shoulder-length, untidy hair’.
She was identified after police trawled through CCTV footage of the incident.
A police spokesman told the Lancashire Telegraph that the 13-year-old girl had been spoken to by officers and taken part in a ‘community resolution’ in which she sent her victim a letter of apology.
Justice has been served. With a side of tartar sauce, please.
Read: UK police hunt for Irish girl who slapped shop worker in face with large fish>
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
Apology Asda bream fish fish slap Lancashire Police Scales of Justice shop worker