The Metropolitan Police are trying to establish whether two recent assaults on Jews in Stamford Hill could be linked. 

Both attacks happened on Wednesday, August 18. Video footage of one appears to show a Muslim man spontaneously attacking a teenager. Shomrim, the Orthodox group which monitors and protects the Jewish community in Stamford Hill, told the police that a boy in his mid-teens suffered facial injuries “after being assaulted by a man in Amhurst Park” that evening.

On the same evening a 64-year old man was knocked to the ground by what appears to be the same individual. Again, there is CCTV footage and it appears to show the attack coming completely out of the blue as the two men were about to walk past each other. 

The strictly Orthodox man fell onto the pavement and is understood to have been taken to hospital after suffering what Shomrim said was “a broken foot and nasty head injuries”. Philip Glanville, the mayor of Hackney, said: “This was a disgusting and hateful incident, a reminder of why we must keep working with our communities, Hackney Council and Hackney Police, to make Hackney #No Place for Hate”. He thanked Shomrim for reporting and acting so quickly.

There have been no arrests yet in either case but each attack has been assigned a CAD number. Police have spoken to the older man and are in the process of speaking to the teenager.

In a separate case in Stamford Hill a man has been arrested after allegedly indecently exposing himself while sitting in a car in Fairview Road, N15. Haringey Police arrested the man on August 17 for “multiple offences” and Shomrim are appealing for more witnesses or victims.