A gang of women who killed an Egyptian student in a suspected race attack had abused her in the street months earlier, it has been claimed. The mother of Mariam Moustafa says her daughter had been assaulted by the same thugs four months before but police in Nottingham 'did nothing'.
Mariam, 18, was left in a coma after being jumped by the group of female yobs outside a shopping centre while she waited for a bus on February 20.
The teenager had been shopping in Nottingham city centre before she was repeatedly assaulted by the women in an unprovoked attack on Parliament Street.
The engineering student was rushed to Nottingham City Hospital and placed in an induced coma but died on Wednesday.
Her family believe she was targeted in a racially-motivated attack by a group of women who had previously hurled abuse at her in the street.
According to an Egyptian newspaper, Moustafa's mother Nessrin Shehata posted a video on social media saying: 'Four months ago, two of the same ten women abused my daughter in the street with no specific reason.
'We went to the police station and issued an official complaint; however, nothing happened'.
She added that when the women saw her in the street walking alone, they attacked her once again and dragged her about several feet in the street.
Nessrin told Egypt Today: 'She managed to get up and run towards one of the buses, but they went after her and started to beat her again.
'Just one man tried to defend her, but no one else tried to interfere'.
A 17-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm and was subsequently released on conditional bail.
A Home Office post-mortem examination is due to take place.
Mariam, who was a Central College engineering student in Beeston, is understood to have suffered a bleed on the brain as well as a stroke during the attack.
She was reportedly punched several times before she was further verbally assaulted after getting onto the number 27 bus. <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
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