UK: Racist attackers jailed
01 November 1994
Two men, who took part in a vicious racist attack on a black man in Birmingham, were jailed for 13 years at Birmingham Crown Court in October. Clive Forbes was attacked by Jason Craney and Paul Corbett while walking with his partner, who was eight months pregnant. He was chased into his flat and forced to jump from a second floor window. On landing he broke a leg and as he lay on the ground was beaten unconscious. He required surgery to remove a clot on his brain and had four operations on his leg. Charges of attempted murder were dropped and the two men pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm. While the sentence handed out to Clive Forbes' attackers reflects the severity of the attack, this is not the case with a youth who was part of a gang that attacked eighteen year old Mukhta Ahmed in Bethnal Green, east London last February.
Mukhta was beaten so badly that his scalp was detached from his skull. He was left with grotesque facial injuries and was in hospital for a month. Nicky Fuller, who took part in the attack and boasted to friends about it, was sentenced to 11 months in a young offenders institution; he walked free from court having already served his sentence on remand.
The Clive Forbes Support Committee can be contacted c/o 346 Soho Road, Handsworth, Birmingham.