A woman who struck a 12-year-old black boy on the forehead with a paddle at a riverside park so forcefully that he has been left scarred has admitted assault causing actual bodily harm but insisted the attack was not racially motivated.
The police were strongly criticised after the attack by Fay Johnson, 32, on the boy, because she was initially not prosecuted after claiming she acted in self-defence and felt “threatened” by the youngster.
