THIS is the moment a woman holding a beer stormed an interview to hurl racist abuse at a businessman – with a group of children in tow.
Local Zahin, 32, was speaking to Sky News about community tensions in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, over asylum seekers when the interview took a disturbing turn.
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The video, which has now circulated widely on social media, shows two women walking past with a group of children as Zahin begins answering the first question.
But one of the women, holding a glass of beer, storms in front of the camera and launches into a foul-mouthed tirade directed at Zahin.
“Can you not see we’re talking?” Zahin says, referring to the ongoing interview with Midlands correspondent Shamaan Freeman-Powell.
The second woman then starts making offensive remarks about religion before shouting: “That’s the issue we’re having with you in our country, you’re raping our kids.”
Zahin, who moved to the UK from Malawi at the age of six, calmly asks: “What you teaching them kids?”.
The first woman then shouts a racist slur followed by “save our kids.”
Following the shocking scenes, the Sky News presenter steps in to check if Zahin is ok.
Visibly affected, he replies: “I’m used to this conflict.”
Sky News later posted the clip online, adding: “No one should be used to that.”
The hate was so much that both the interviewee and the Sky News crew had to move locations.
Zahin is then seen heading back towards his own family and friends to check on his twin sister, who had become surrounded by the group.
The faces of both women have been blurred by Sky News, and it’s unclear if the group of kids with them were theirs.
After the incident, Zahin told Sky: “I love this town,” but said he believed he was targeted because of assumptions about his religion.
“For them to accuse us of a crime, that’s unfair, that is unjust,” he said.
Nuneaton has seen several anti-immigration protests in recent weeks, and the town has become a flashpoint in the national conversation around asylum.
Zahin says he backs people’s right to demonstrate peacefully. “We have a right to protest for whatever cause we want to – that’s the beauty of living in England.”
But he added that tensions are dividing the town.
Zahin said: “Right now, I don’t think we’re a part of a community, it’s more like sides.
“But there has to be a solution. And I think that solution comes through dialogue, not ranting off, swearing at each other.
“I mean, we are in 2025 now.”
