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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Katie Dickinson

Pensioners called NHS nurse a ‘slave’ and told their dog to kill her in racist park assault

Fyona and Michael Bairstow leaving Bradford Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to racially assaulting Apple Moorhouse - (Katie Dickinson/PA Wire)

A pensioner couple have pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault after a video of them abusing an NHS nurse in a Yorkshire park went viral.

Fyona Bairstow, 72, and Michael Bairstow, 77, accosted Apple Moorhouse in Manor Heath Park, Halifax, in August, following a dispute over their dog being off its lead.

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