Racist couple demand to know if British NHS nurse ‘came here on a rubber boat’ in furious attack as they walk dog in park

A couple launched a vile racist tirade against a British NHS nurse during a shocking attack as they walked their dog in a park in West Yorkshire.

The couple, believed to be in their 60s, demanded to know if the nurse, who has worked for the NHS for 12 years, ‘came here on a rubber boat’ and hurled water and grabbed her hair during the assault at Manor Heath Park in Halifax on Thursday. 

Apple Moorhouse, from Huddersfield, was racially abused alongside her parents and six and 11-year-old daughters, after she asked the couple to control their dog which made her youngest daughter feel ‘unsafe and scared’.

The nurse and British resident of 15 years ended up in A&E for a pulled rib and has bruising on her hands after being grabbed by the hair and pushed to the floor by the woman, who also claimed to be a nurse.

She told the Daily Mail she now fears returning to the park with her children. 

Ms Moorhouse, who is of Filipino descent, said the row was sparked after a group of dogwalkers with the couple, who are wanted by police, ‘found it funny that that their dog was making my daughter uncomfortable’.

After she asked the dog owner to put its lead on, a white man, who police are trying to identify, told her to ‘shut up, f*** off and go back to where you came from on the dinghy boat.’

In shocking footage, recorded by the nurse and her daughter, he can be seen telling his small white dog to ‘kill’ her as it manically barks at her.

Do you know the racist couple? Email adam.pogrund@dailymail.co.uk 

Another video shows a white woman saying she ‘will kill her’ before aggressively grabbing her hair and snatching her phone, before falling to the floor herself.

The man asks the nurse if she has ‘got off a rubber boat?’ and ‘did you come here across the channel?’

‘Ban the immigrants,’ he adds, while raising his right arm in the air.

He then repeats the statement, raising his left arm, before rudely flipping the family off. 

‘I look after you,’ Ms Moorhouse responds. ‘I’m a healthcare worker.’

The man then tells her to ‘f*** off’, before his partner squares up to Ms Moorhouse.

‘Give it a rest,’ the woman said. ‘If you are a healthcare worker you should know I’m an SRN [State Registered Nurse], I could be right above you.

‘Just shut up now. I’ll make you so bloody sick, you will wonder what the hell is going on.

 She can also be seen approaching Ms Moorhouse’s father, mocking his accent, before saying ‘you can’t even speak English’ and laughing.

‘As for you, do you know what you are, that is what we call slavery,’ she said in reference to the nurse’s job.

‘I’m going to get you’, she added, after her partner hurled water at the family.  

Ms Moorhouse said she fears returning to the park after suffering the attack.  

She told the Daily Mail: ‘It is very upsetting every time I watch it back. 

‘If it was just me it would be a different matter but I was with my parents and two daughters’.

‘I was thinking, “what did I do wrong?”. They made my little girl very scared’

‘The woman pulled my hair, I have bruises on my hands after she grabbed them. I went to A&E after I woke up with pain in my ribs. The GP said I must have pulled something.

She added: ‘My six-year-old daughter was really scared. 

‘It started when the dog ran up to my daughter when my dad took her to the play area. She was walking and the dog went and chased them. 

‘The owner did nothing but laughed. My daughter felt unsafe, uncomfortable and scared, and was holding my dad’s leg in fear. My 11-year-old daughter went to interfere and to catch the dog and it ran away.

‘I told the couple “If you can’t control your dog it should be on a lead. They said “F*** off, did you come here in a dinghy?”‘ 

Her parents, who were visiting on holiday, were told they were poor by the lady, before a passerby intervened and helped the family.

Mrs Moorhouse said she ‘doesn’t normally confront people, but I felt like I had to’ after her six-year-old daughter was terrified of the dog.

‘But the response that I received was, “Shut up, f*** off and go back to where you came from on the dingy boat.” So that’s when I decided to film the scene.

‘I was raised to respect the elderly, and that’s kept my cool down. I could have fought back, but I didn’t because I still respected her because I saw her just like she’s my mother. When I pushed her and struggled to get up, I felt so bad about it.

‘I didn’t expect that it was going to get out of proportion. I am just thinking now. If I hadn’t said anything to him, this shouldn’t have happened.

‘But maybe this happened for a reason, an eye-opener that racism still does exist, unfortunately.’

West Yorkshire Police have since launched an appeal to find the couple, with the pair wanted for ‘assault’.

A spokesperson told the Daily Mail: ‘Police received a report at 1:49pm on Thursday, 28 August, that a man and woman were being racist towards a family in Manor Heath Park, Halifax. 

‘The caller further reported that she had intervened and been assaulted with the man and woman also assaulting the mother of the family they had targeted. Neither victim was seriously injured.

‘The suspects are described as white and aged in their 60s. The male suspect was described as wearing a pink/purple t-shirt and jeans and the female suspect as wearing jeans and a vest top.

‘Officers are keen to identify the two people pictured in these images. Anyone with any information about their identities or who has any other information that could assist with the investigation into this incident, is asked to contact police in Calderdale via www.westyorkshire.police.uk/livechat or by calling 101, quoting crime reference 13250493580.

Alternatively, information can be provided to independent charity Crimestoppers via 0800 555 111 or online.

Do you know the racist couple? Email adam.pogrund@dailymail.co.uk