A student who called a hospital worker a ‘Welsh c***’ has been convicted of racism.
Layla Ahmed unleashed the verbal attack when staff at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff were unable to help her sister who was having a seizure on the floor.
The psychology student, 20, from Cardiff, told a guard, ‘You f***ing Welsh c***,’ to which he responded by asking her to refrain from using racist language.
‘How is that racist? You’re white. You’re Welsh,’ Ahmed replied.
Ahmed then became aggressive and was asked by a security guard to leave the hospital.
Defence solicitor Amelia Butt told Cardiff Magistrates’ Court: ‘Miss Ahmed was frustrated at staff not being able to treat her sister and she accepts she made comments solely out of desperation in the heat of the moment.’
The student, who receives a student loan worth £3,400 every four months and earns £100 a week as a part-time support worker, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment.
Layla Ahmed, pictured, called a hospital worker a ‘Welsh c***’
She unleashed the verbal attack when staff at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, pictured in a stock image, were unable to help her sister who was having a seizure on the floor
Ahmed attended the hospital with her sibling on December 8, Wales Online reports.
‘She is remorseful,’ Ms Butt said. ‘She accepts she should not have said what she said. She is 20 years old and has never been arrested before or since.’
Sentencing, District Judge Rhys Williams said: ‘You were frustrated by the situation. You were asked to leave by the security guard and you used abusive language towards him.
‘That language included a racial element and it was directed at a security guard who was only doing his job in that situation.’
He handed her a £120 fine, £50 compensation to the victim, £85 in prosecution costs, and a £48 victim services surcharge, ordering Ahmed to pay at least £20 per month towards these costs.
