A gay woman was brutally attacked in a hate crime.
As reported in the Manchester Evening News, Hayley Smith, suffered a double fracture of her jaw when she was assaulted while a walking her dog, Milo, in Eccles. She was on Brookhouse Avenue, in Peel Green, at about 5pm on March 17th, when the incident took place.
Hayley was left unconscious, and was found by a paramedic who was by chance dealing with another incident in the area. She believes she was attacked purely because she is gay.
