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Sarah Vesty

Little Scots girl called 'monkey girl' by pupils removed from school by desperate gran

A desperate Scots gran has been forced to remove her eight-year-old granddaughter from school after she was allegedly subject to vile racist slurs.

May McWilliams is desperately fighting to get Rio Brown into a different school after she reported being called ‘monkey girl’ and ‘chocolate girl’ by youngsters at Elderbank Primary in Irvine.

The eight-year-old, who lives with her gran after her mum sadly died in 2019, also told her granny she was slapped and kicked by other children before May formally withdrew her from her p3 class.

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