A Nigerian student was racially abused during a visit to a UK hospital with her Spanish friend. A shocking video show a woman going on a rant to patients in a hospital waiting room in Ipswich, Suffolk.
The woman walked up to a 23- year-old Nigerian student and her 21-year-old Spanish friend and demanded to know where they came from. When Gina Thompson, the Nigerian student refused telling her where she was from, she said, ‘You’re coming over here and you’re pleading poverty. We are paying taxes you a***holes and we are going down in this crisis.’
The incident took place at 7:30pm in the hospital’s accident and emergency department waiting room, where Miss Thompson had gone with her friend who had sprained her ankle playing sport.
After the incident, Miss Thompson told MailOnline, ‘I was so embarrassed and I couldn’t do anything because I was stuck in the situation, so we just had to laugh about it. All the attention was on us.
‘She said I’ve come here to claim poverty. That’s not true. I’m an international student and I pay £13,000 a year in tuition fees. My friend is a student here from Spain.’
The woman was later arrested by the policed and charged to court.
Watch the video below.
