UK: Celebrity photographer accused of assault on Muslim, yet she is the only one with injuries

And the plaintiffs are members of a group that has a long history of spuriously claiming victim status. "The celebrity photographer and an 'assault in Tesco on hijab-wearing Muslim she called a terrorist,'" by Sam Greenhill and Rosie Taylor in the Daily Mail, July 4 (thanks to Twostellas):

A portrait photographer to the stars shoved a pregnant Muslim woman to the floor and called her a terrorist during a row in Tesco, a court heard yesterday.

Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury also branded the hijab-wearing woman’s family suicide bombers, it was alleged.

The 41-year-old, who has 11 portraits hanging in the National Portrait Gallery including exhibits of London mayor Boris Johnson and Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman, denies racially-aggravated assault.

She told a jury at Isleworth Crown Court that trouble began at the Tesco store in Kensington, West London, when she offered to help the woman, Mounia Hamoumi, and her husband unload their shopping trolley.

The court was told she had overheard the husband refusing to help his wife because he was too busy looking after their children.

‘I told him that is what feminism is all about, women helping women – and he told me to “get lost”,’ claimed Heathcote-Drury.

But prosecutor Nermine Abdel Sayed said: ‘You took objection to that inequality didn’t you? Coupled with the woman wearing Islamic dress, you waded in and instigated the whole incident.

‘When your offer of help was rejected you became more confrontational and you very quickly lost control and were shouting at them.

‘Your tone was aggressive and you used the words “suicide bomber” and “terrorist”, and told them: “I am a British citizen. I don’t know where you are from.”

‘You went to the woman and pushed her.’

Mother-of-three Mrs Hamoumi was six months’ pregnant at the time of the incident which happened on November 30 last year.

Heathcote-Drury is also accused of telling the family: ‘You’re probably claiming jobseeker’s [allowance].’ She denied this and using any racist language, and said she was the true victim.

The photographer, whose portrait subjects also include actor Terence Stamp and ministers Kenneth Clarke and Iain Duncan Smith, told the court: ‘Many of those words were made up, they have misheard it for their purpose.’

With tears in her eyes, she said: ‘I am the only one who was assaulted. I am the only one with injuries.’ Heathcote-Drury made an assault complaint to police, claiming she was tripped, kicked and punched by Mrs Hamoumi, but this was not pursued by the investigating officers.

The prosecutor suggested: ‘You played the victim in order to get out of trouble, trying to direct attention on to them and away from you.’

A security guard broke up the row, but Heathcote-Drury is accused of then approaching Mrs Hamoumi and pushing her to the floor.

When arrested at the store, Heathcote-Drury is said to have proclaimed: ‘Unbelievable’, and told officers: ‘This is absolutely incorrect. I was the one who was verbally abused then assaulted.’ Giving her version of events to the jury, she said: ‘I said we live in a society in Great Britain where rights are equal and if you need help you can ask for it and she said: “Mind your own business.”

‘The husband came over and said: “You **** off”, then came over again and I thought he was going to jab me with something in his hand.’

She claimed she was tripped by the woman as she tried to get away from the row, saying: ‘I stumbled very badly forward and I felt a shooting pain in my left shin. The woman was looking at me and smiling. She had wished me to fall flat on my face to humiliate me.

‘She took a step forward and took a swipe at my head with her right fist and got me on my right cheek.’ Heathcote-Drury, of West Kensington, has pleaded not guilty to racially aggravated assault.

The trial continues.

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From the No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Files,

Lesson: Do NOT, repeat NOT, assist Muslims. It is absolutely no win, both on a macro (countries helping Muslims) or micro (helping individual muslims).

WHAT STUPIDITY: ‘I told him that is what feminism is all about, women helping women – and he told me to “get lost”,’ claimed Heathcote-Drury.

She offers to help and what's the muslim first reaction, his very first reaction - to growl at her. And still she doesn't learn.

"not pursued by the investigating officers."
One way street.

I just hope this will be an eye-opener for the photographer.

Feminists vs Pedohammedans

Let the scum kill each other.

Sad as it sounds, it is a waste of time to hold conferences to protect the rights of Muslim women from honor killing and all the other horrors of Islamic Sharia law. The majority of Muslim women are completely compliant with Islamic supremacy, and should in no way be viewed as allies of freedom.

Of course, the conference organizers are aware of this. The real purpose of conferences to protect Muslim women's rights is to protect the rights of women who are not Muslims. Also, to maintain an exit strategy for those Muslim women who want out of their prisons. But, in general, Muslim women are literally the handmaidens of Muslim oppression.

I guess it is more acceptable to claim to watch out for the interests of someone else, rather than yourself. I myself think there is a great deal to be said for the virtue of open selfishness.

Oh poor foolish feminist, she doesn’t realize that in islam the muslima always has to take the side of her husband, there is no woman helping woman tradition in islam. It’s only woman doing what her man or other male owners tells her to do.
I do hope she wakes up the the islamic threat.

"I just hope this will be an eye-opener for the photographer."

"She claimed she was tripped by the woman as she tried to get away from the row, saying: ‘I stumbled very badly forward and I felt a shooting pain in my left shin. The woman was looking at me and smiling. She had wished me to fall flat on my face to humiliate me."

She had wished me to fall flat on my face to humiliate me It appears that Ms. Heathcote-Drury already has had one eye opened.

Anyone notice the name of the prosecutor? Nermine Abdel Sayed. Probably understands Muslim victimhood very well.

This is very possibly a de facto sharia court.

Why were the muslims shopping at TESCO? The business was founded in England soon after World War 1 by Jack Cohen, a Jewish man, son of a tailor from Poland (the CO in TESCO stands for Cohen, not Corporation).

The business is now, however, dhimmified enough to be selling halal meat dedicated with a ritual incantation to Allah without informing the kuffar what they are buying. Daily Mail Sep 25th 2010

A kaffir woman helping a muslima is in microcosm NATO helping the Libyan "rebels".

The Tesco store in Ken High St is very well equipped with CCTV. I'm sure the video evidence will determine the judgement.

Well, in a way, this incident should be seen as a learning experience. This famous woman will almost certainly tell her coterie of trendy-lefties how she has had 'second thoughts' about the so-called 'religion of peace'.

And may I suggest that she mounts a photo exhibition of battered Muslim women! That'll have 'The Guardian' (UK) foaming at the PC, pro-jihad mouth!

She told a jury at Isleworth Crown Court that trouble began at the Tesco store in Kensington, West London, when she offered to help the woman, Mounia Hamoumi, and her husband unload their shopping trolley.

This is an exquisite microcosm of the entire problem of the West vis-a-vis Islam: nearly all our problems are due "trying to help" Muslims -- whether to help them ameliorate their hellholes abroad; or to help them immigrate into our superior societies because we think that they want to escape their Islam and not rather invade us; or, finally, to help them "assimilate" into our societies once they are here.

The only "help" we need to extend to Muslims is to help them to the door -- out of our countries.

It seems we always insist on learning the hard way. Well let's hope there is still something left after the learning process.

About the Muslima in thie whole affair:

The woman was looking at me and smiling. She had wished me to fall flat on my face to humiliate me.

Yet again, a Muslim female colluding in the Islamic hatred that is the very psychocultural font of terrorism. And yet so many in the anti-Islam Movement (such as it is) continue to insist that Muslim women are poor wittle "victims". Finger to throat, then face palm.

If I'm not mistaken, false claims of abuse and torture are literally right out of Al Quaeda's playbook.

Update:

"Photographer to the stars is cleared of race assault of Muslim woman in supermarket"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169510/Photographer-stars-cleared-race-assault-Muslim-woman-supermarket.html#ixzz1zovfuXiM

Thanks for posting this, Thomas.

What a fiasco!

The police refused to release the CCTV footage of the incident.

The jury took only 15 minutes to acquit her.

Let's hope she can claim damages for eight months of stress.

More data, from Thomas's link above, to buttress my post above, re the fallacy of thinking that Muslimas (female Muslims) are any less virulently Islamic than their male co-religionists:

Prosecutor Nermine Abdel Sayed said Miss Heathcote-Drury became 'aggressive', adding: 'You used the words “suicide bomber” and “terrorist”.

That's a female Muslim prosecutor, defending the Muslims in this case.

And this other piece of information:

She [i.e., Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury] the non-Muslim victim of the assault] also claimed Mrs Hamoumi kicked her in both shins, punched her and slammed her arm on a supermarket trolley.

What was Eric Allen Bell telling us about all the Muslim women who are poor wittle "victims" of Islam...?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169510/Photographer-stars-cleared-race-assault-Muslim-woman-supermarket.html#ixzz1zrxpVQg0

LL

And would you regard a six-year-old girl, being raped by her Muslim father, as complicit in the abuse? And as your mortal enemy?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5907458.ece


From The Sunday Times

March 15, 2009

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/20277
Hannah Shah, The Imam’s Daughter

She gritted her teeth, she clung to the glimmer of light she had, the little she had glimpsed of a world outside Islam (that she had encountered in Bible stories from the vicar visiting the parochial school her family had sent her to - because it was cheap, or because it was perceived as being safer than the local state school, who knows? - and from sneaked peeks at Infidel kiddie TV shows; and when she was a teenager, and big enough and fast enough and smart enough to bolt, she bolted. The first time she didn't succeed, because the stupid Authorities assigned her a **Muslim** social worker who of course sided with her father. The second time she got help from **non-Muslims**, and got clean away.

Not only out of the abusive family, but out of Islam altogether. She was baptised - her father then sent a posse after her, with axes - and she is married to an English Christian man.

Some *are* innocent victims - do you blame a six-year-old for being abused? she had no choice whatsoever about being born into the family she was born into - and some few *do* seize the opportunity to flee.

Not everyone born into the clutches of Islam remains there.

Do please bear that in mind.

Except for those few who like our own Saleem Smith and Istanbul Chick converted to Islam with little knowledge of what it really was but then 'woke up' to what they had been suckered into and backed right out again, every happy apostate - and there are more of them than the ones who have become famous, most are in hiding under changed names - started out as a Muslim child in an Islam-saturated environment and still somehow managed - I believe (even in the case of those who afterward choose atheism) by the interposition of divine Grace - got themselves out.


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