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Updated 21.20
THE SHOCKING VIDEO of a young man bleeding and dazed being robbed during the London riots stunned many this week.
But now the victim’s identity has been uncovered – and people are being encouraged to ‘do something nice’ for him.
According to the Daily Mail, the man’s name is Mohammed Ashraf Haziq (20) and he is a Malaysian student living in London.
A first-year accounting student, he arrived in London just one week ago.
A video uploaded to YouTube earlier this week showed him sitting on a footpath, bleeding, when he was approached by a gang of youths.
Under the pretence of helping him, they opened his backpack and stole items from it.
The website Let’s Do Something Nice for Ashraf Haziq was launched today and aims to raise money to do something nice for the youth.
Channel Four reports that the website was set up by Jamie Cowen, a former Save the Children Worker, who said the site offers Britain a “chance to demonstrate they didn’t want to see these images flash around the world in their name”. He said he’s not sure how much money is in the account at the moment, but that all of the case will go straight to Ashraf Haziq.
The most popular suggestion so far is that people donate money to fly his parents over to the UK from Malaysia.
- Additional reporting by Emer McLysaght
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He didn’t get "clipped", he had his jaw broken. And after this he had his wallet and phone stolen by scumbags pretending to help him. People are helping him out to show that not all of the UK are mindless thugs. It’s a symbol of kindness and should be welcomed….. He deserves it!
He got a "clip" are some of you for real???? Have u seen the pool if blood left behind when he stood up. I wouldn’t call that a clip.
And look at some of the other comments…oh I lost everything bla bla bla GET OVER IT AND STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF ffs.
How would you feel if this happened your kid over in Malaysia in a riot? Would you not like the people over there to show kindness and support to your child? Or would you prefer to go online and read comments like this?
PATHETIC!!
Totally agreed Alan
Pathetic?? I lost quite a lot, including my marriage, due to the recession. We couldn’t cope with the stresses, like so many others. Excuse me for ‘feeling sorry for myself’, it takes a hell of a lot longer to start again after ones life falls apart, as apposed to a broken jaw. While I sympathise with the boy and indeed his family, a broken jaw will be repaired faster than a lot of people’s lives. Bizzarely, the reason this boys jaw is broken, and the problems I am still trying to overcome, all come from the very same source. I know I am not on my own in this situation, there are thousands of couples out there right now contemplating handing back their house keys at this very moment. Do you think they will donate money for this lad when they can’t even cover their own bills? Trivializing other peoples problems is downright rude and arrogant.
Sandra!
Go to a place in London where there is CCTV and pay a few scum bags to mug you and act really upset!
You’ll be a millionaire!
No one ever seems to feel sorry for people who say they can’t pay there bills coz let’s face it, some people lie about it!
Maybe this kids a little con artist!
Itchy Brain, if you’re that intent on generalisations, I’m waiting now for you say that the kid was likely the head of the Malaysian arm of Al-Queda? Or maybe even a member of JI? Generalisations can be hurtful, are are usually based on dire stupidity.
Further, when you say ‘no-one’, do you mean you personally, or the public at large? I’d guess it’s the former. I don’t think many people, Irish or not, in fact anybody at all, would like you to speak on their behalf.
Sandra you should have thought a little longer and a little harder when you signed off those mortgage documents, that a slip up like a loss of a job could kill the love you once felt for the other person.
Maybe it wasnt to be, who knows? I dont? But to say the recession is the cause of this young lad getting punched is laughable… It is nothing more than thugs robbing other peoples stuff, and has nothing to so with recession. These little runts would still be floating around the streets in 2006 punching peoples faces but we would all be too rich to notice and hey you’d still have that overpriced house and a job …………..
Well said Brian, he lost a tooth and had his jaw broken, poor lad :(
Ye are missing the bigger point. The idea is that they respond to violence with kindness, just like Norway.
If you want to do something nice for the guy – give him the money and send him back home to safety.
Fly his parents over from
Malaysian my swiss roll, he got a clip and a few things stroked out of his bag. I’ve plenty of sympathy for him but it’s not the worst crime that’s been perpetrated over there in the last week I’m sure.
Ye, I’d have to agree. It’s a bit much now. I feel sorry for him too, but I lost pretty much everything I had 18 months ago. Will somebody donate stuff to me?? Not a hope!
its still really hard to watch
Put this into perspective, he’s ok he got clipped, few belongings took.
He’ll become a minor celebrity do a few interviews make loads of new friends earn a few bob .. Fly his parents over? Daft. People should donate there money to the clean up.
It is symbolically shitty, we are used to seeing people battered, killed etc but being so sneaky as to pretend to help whilst robbing an injured man is fairly off, not the worst crime but it strikes us in a different way. You would hardly even get that at a ógra FF conference ( on consideration you probably would, ógra makes the rioters seem like grade A Civic studies students.)
The lads in London a week, thousands of miles from home and he’s been mugged and had his jaw broken. Some of you really are insensitive b******s!
its a symbolic gesture, the reputation of the uk has gone up in smoke this week, doing something like this shows that there is still goodness in their country. a few years ago a friend of mine had her bag stolen in a manchester pub, the patrons to a man had a whiparound for her they were so ashamed, this is the same thing on a larger scale
Does anyone know if was he involved in the protest or looting??
Wanted to know that one myself!
If you want to do some good give your money to the humanitarian efforts to feed the starving in the horn of Africa, donate the money in his name,
Sandra, whilst unfortunate that your marriage broke down due to the financial problems the majority of us face in todays world,It’s not like some one broke ye up and stole your marriage out of your hands is it. You’re the one being insensitive here, do you think you’re the Only one affected by this, and it’s not up to any one else to fix you’re problems except for whoever caused them to happen in the first place.
I think its a great idea as it shows that not all the UK condone the events that are happening now, especially people who’s insurance doesn’t cover ‘civil unrest’. I think that people were just looking for reason to kick off and that initial events leading up to it deemed it fair game.
When a Scandinavian girl , Manuela Riedo came to study here in Galway and got murdered, the people did their best to show the people of Sweden that Galway isn’t that kind of place and did their utmost to try comfort her family whilst they were here.
What their trying to do is help this young lad and try make his stay in the UK a pleasant one, despite what happened, and they are trying to build up good inter national relations also. Noone can afford to go to war…
apologies, she was from Switzerland..
Just watched footage, it is sick to think people are that nasty and evil that would do such a thing to a young guy thats injured. Well done England! Your people should make you so proud!
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