Source : Perth Now news
The sickening moment a teenage mob stabbed a trans girl nine times for lying about her gender was revealed last night.
The 18-year-old aspiring model, who had performed a sex act on a boy after denying she was transgender, was lured to a roller disco where she was set upon by a masked group screaming “tranny”.
Five teenagers punched, kicked and stamped on the victim.
In the brutal 45-second revenge attack, which was filmed on Snapchat, the victim was punched to the ground and kicked at least seven times by Summer Betts-Ramsey, 19. Then, while the victim lay helpless, Betts-Ramsey stabbed her 14 times in the nose, thigh, hand, and buttocks.
Other teenagers rained down blows with “great excitement”, beating her with a pair of roller skates and boots before snatching her handbag and fleeing, leaving her in a pool of blood.
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, only survived the attack on February 10 last year at Harrow Leisure Centre, north-west London, after a passerby stopped Betts-Ramsey stamping on her head before calling for an ambulance.
Yesterday, at the Old Bailey, the perpetrators were detained for a total of 13 years in a young offenders’ institution.
The CCTV shows the masked, hooded gang lying in wait, dancing in excitement in a car park as the smiling, unsuspecting victim approaches. In an orgy of violence, all five teenagers piled in while she lay curled up in a ball.
“It’s sickening to watch,” said Judge Philip Katz, KC, who added that the “abhorrent” attack could have been fatal.
‘The victim was viciously assaulted in public by five young persons each intending for her to be caused really serious injury.
‘She was kicked and punched to the ground, they then continued to punch her, and she was stabbed repeatedly. She presented no threat to anyone. She did nothing to provoke the attack or to justify it in any way.’
The judge said the group were motivated ‘by a distorted version of revenge’, and described the planning of the attack on Snapchat as ‘poisonous’.
Betts-Ramsey, now 20, posted footage of the attack with laughing emojis, boasting to friends: ‘I’m going jail… bro I stabbed her 12 times.’ She was already under a community order for previous convictions for robbery and battery.
Judge Katz sentenced her to four and a half years in a young offenders’ institution plus another four years on licence. He said: ‘Her gloating in the aftermath of the attack was shamelessly hateful and dehumanising.’
Three boys, Shiloh Hindes, Bradley Harris, and Camron Osei, all 18, were detained for three years in a young offenders’ institution.
A 17-year-old boy who cannot be named was given an 18-month youth rehabilitation order. All five admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Harris plotted the attack because the victim had denied being trans when she performed a sex act on him days earlier. He had recorded the encounter, and a friend who saw the clip told him she had lied.
Harris then challenged the victim about her gender, threatening her at knifepoint and warning: ‘I’ll stab you if you lie.’
The victim, who now suffers from panic attacks and struggles to sleep, said: ‘I am constantly in fear of being assaulted again. I never thought anyone would have so much hatred for me.’
