Syrian refugee’s emails before brutal attack

THE Syrian refugee who was attacked at school wrote to authorities pleading for help three weeks before the incident.

The 15-year-old, who can only be named as Jamal, contacted the police, his school and council but got nowhere.

A video of Jamal being attacked by a fellow pupil at Almondbury Community School, Huddersfield, West Yorks, has gone viral.

He was knocked down and had water poured over his face.

Cllr Bernard McGuin said Jamal emailed him, pleading “please help me”, on October 27, two days after the attack. The teen had earlier written to his school, West Yorkshire Police, Kirklees Council, Ofsted and the Department for Education, on October 4.

He told Cllr McGuin of “incidents and allegations”, but did not include the video from October 25. Jamal suggested he had been bullied for two years. Cllr McGuin said: “He said the police and the school had not helped him. He felt nobody could help him.” Cllr McGuin sent the case to the council’s director of children’s services, Steve Walker. On November 23, Cllr McGuin was told the council and police had met with the school, and a pupil had been excluded. A boy of 16 has been reported for summons for an offence of assault, due in youth court soon. A fund for Jamal has raised £150,000. Yesterday, he criticised online abuse of his alleged bully, saying: “I don’t want anything terrible to happen to him.” PM Theresa May called the attack “absolutely terrible”. HORRIFIC CASE Schoolboy Jamal