Police are investigating the alleged assault of a BBC reporter by a young boy at Brighton Station yesterday evening.
Lucinda Adam was reporting on yesterday’s rail fare hikes when the boy, who appeared to be of primary school age, started dancing around behind her.
Ms Adam said she the boy’s mum was across the road “egging him on”.
He then shoved her hard in the back before running away into the station.
Today, Sussex Police confirmed they were investigating the incident, and were in touch with Ms Adam.
A spokesman said: “Police received a third-party report of an assault in Queens Road, Brighton on Tuesday evening (1 March).
“Contact has been made with the victim and enquiries are ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact police online or call 101 quoting serial number 1433 of 01/03.”
Yesterday, Ms Adam tweeted: “Reporting live from #Brighton tonight when a young boy about 8 started mucking about waving his arms behind me. We’ve all been there, but then he shoved me hard in the back before running off.
“The saddest part is his mum was across the road egging him on and you can hear her howling with laughter. It’s not funny, it’s assault while someone is doing their job. Where has kindness gone?
“Thank you to the friends and viewers who have messaged me both publicly and privately to ask if I’m ok. I’m fine thanks, just a bit shaken, quite angry and a bit sad.”
I hope that the Police catch this naughty, wicked scoundrel and beat him in a most harsh and forceful manner
Not assault it was just a kid messing around, but i suppose these days the parents can’t be blamed for not keeping the kid under control.
Wish kids spent more time doing mindfulness and less fighting.
Wish some parents were locked up for a long time. If the police do identify the boy and his mum, they will just give them a caution.
Shoddy parenting. This is up there with the mums who go shop lifting with their kids.
It’s the ghastly mum who should be punished. With a b……… like that for a mother, what hope is there for a child to grow up normal?
Bad parenting but also she should grow up. It’s not like it was older teen or adult. It was literally a preteen child and even then he didn’t really put his back into the effort. She suffered nothing than some embarrassment and needs to toughen up the precious thing. Of she’d been violently assaulted. Knocked to the ground, had her spinal column damaged then it would be something. This is simply a comical demonstration of how pampered and pathetic the media classes have become.
Considering the irreparable harm her organisation has caused to thousands of kids over the years then tbh this doesn’t even register on the opposing side of the scale.
The parent should be found and looked into but the kid needs nothing more than a stern chat.