UK: 4 teenagers arrested afte couple was subjected to homophobic attack after refusing to kiss on a bus Updated
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Update : Arrests have been made over a homophobic attack on a couple after they refused to kiss while travelling on a London night bus on 30 May, Scotland Yard said.
The Metropolitan Police Roads and Transport unit tweeted from its account in reply to a new article on the homophobic attack, saying: “Arrests have now been made and the investigation remains ongoing.”
A couple were subjected to a homophobic attack and left covered in blood after refusing to kiss on a bus.
BBC reports how Melania Geymonat, 28, said the attack on her and girlfriend Chris happened on the top deck of a London night bus as they were travelling to Camden Town in the early hours of 30 May.
A group of young men began harassing them when they discovered the women were a couple, asking them to kiss while making sexual gestures.
Scotland Yard are investigating what they described as a “homophobic attack” against the two women in their 20s last Wednesday.
When they refused to kiss at the demand of the gang, they were viciously attacked. They were also later robbed of a phone and a handbag.
Siwan Hayward, director of compliance, policing and on-street services at Transport for London, described the assault as “sickening” and “utterly unacceptable”, adding that “homophobic behaviour and abuse is a hate crime and won’t be tolerated on our network”.
Police are appealing for witnesses for the attack which happened at about 02:30 BST on a N31 bus in West Hampstead.
In a post on Facebook, Ms Geymonat – who worked recently as a Ryanair air hostess and is originally from Uruguay – said: “I’m tired of being taken as a sexual object, of finding out that these situations are usual, of gay friends who were beaten up just because.
“We have to endure verbal harassment and chauvinist, misogynistic and homophobic violence because when you stand up for yourself s— like this happens.
