Brenning av mennesker, slik vi kjenner det fra Sør-Afrika og konebrenning i India og Pakistan, er iferd med å spre seg til Storbritannia: en 20 år gammel hindu ble dynket med bensin og tent på fordi han datet en muslimsk jente i London.
The 20-year-old, who is fighting for his life in hospital, was torched as he sat in his car in Forest Gate.
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It is believed the Hindi victim, who suffered 65 per cent burns in the attack, was targeted because he was dating a Muslim girlfriend.He had just parked his car, a green Honda Prelude, in St George’s Road when he was approached by the suspect or suspects and had petrol poured over him before being set alight.
He managed to get out of the vehicle and was discovered nearby before being taken to hospital and transferred to a specialist burns unit where he remains in a critical condition.
A police spokesman said: «Officers were called to the scene at 6am last Thursday to reports of a man on fire.»
DI Sam Faulkner, from the violent crime unit at Forest Gate said: «This was a very nasty attack and the victim remains in a critical condition.
Hindu man set on fire in East London ‘for dating Muslim girl’