May 21, 2005
Gang 'happy slaps' cancer woman
Another happy slapping incident reaches new heights in vileness. The BBC reports.
"The girlfriend of TV presenter Matthew Wright, Caroline Monk, 35, who lost her hair during treatment for breast cancer, was called a "slaphead" and knocked to the ground by a gang of teenagers.
"Ms Monk, who describes the attack in her column in Closer magazine, had been walking with her 60-year-old mother when a boy ran at her with his arm outstretched and knocked her to the pavement.
She said: "I was lying on the ground and all the other lads were running up, pointing at me, shouting 'slaphead, slaphead'."
She said she started crying and shouted at the teenagers that she had cancer. Some, she said, muttered an apology.
Matthew Wright, who presents Channel Five's The Wright Stuff, said: "When people go around torturing and abusing people with cancer, it makes you wonder what kind of world we live in."
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