Chilling moment random creep tries to drag teen girl away from crowd in terrifying kidnap attempt at busy station
THIS is the chilling moment a random creep tried to drag a teen girl away by the arm in a terrifying kidnap attempt at a busy station.
Osman Moalem was targeted the 19-year-old at Liverpool Lime Street while she waited for friends.
The 25-year-old muttered something to her she did not understand so she stepped back from him.
Moalem was then filmed grabbing the girl's arm and attempting to drag her away from the crowd.
She repeatedly yelled at the fiend to let her go and tried to free herself from his grasp.
Even when the girl's screams attracted passers-by, Moalem continued to pull her towards him.
An elderly couple eventually came to the victim's aid and threatened to call police.
But Moalem just smirked and still continued his sinister bid to drag the victim away.
The creep even followed the girl into the station when she finally managed to escape his grasp.
Moalem was arrested by British Transport Police officers just minutes later while he waited for a train.
He has now been jailed for 27 months after he was found guilty of attempted kidnap.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the abduction plot took place on October 28 last year.
Investigating officer DC Olivia Hill said: 'Despite crystal clear CCTV footage of the attempted kidnapping, Moalem had the audacity to deny it and has shown no remorse for his actions throughout the investigation
"I know how terrifying this was for the victim and she's bravely supported the investigation throughout, I hope that now that Moalem is behind bars she can continue to make progress with her recovery.
'Thankfully we police a CCTV rich environment and the quality of the footage, along with the victim's testimony, was invaluable in securing Moalem's conviction.
'Anyone who witnesses or experiences any crime on the railway, is urged to text us on 61016 or call 999 in an emergency.'
4
4
4
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Guardian
an hour ago
- The Guardian
The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with ‘protecting women'. It is racism, pure and simple
In 1972, loyalist paramilitaries fired bullets into the home of a Catholic woman, Sarah McClenaghan. That night she was at home with her lodger, a Protestant, and her disabled teenage son, David. After forcing her son to get his mother's rosary beads, proving that she was Catholic, a loyalist paramilitary raped Sarah. David was tortured. The gang then shot them both, David dying of his wounds. I thought about David and Sarah as I watched rolling news of the pogroms in Ballymena. I thought about them in light of the lie that violence against women and girls has been imported to Northern Ireland via migrants or asylum seekers. It's always been here. The rioters say they are acting to drive out foreigners who pose a threat to women and girls. The irony isn't lost on anybody with knowledge of the local area. Modern-day loyalist paramilitaries are reportedly involved with the violence. In the Belfast Telegraph this week, journalist Allison Morris reported that members of the South East Antrim Ulster Defence Association are among the rioters. 'The organisation,' she writes, 'has been regularly named by our sister paper, the Sunday Life, as protecting sex offenders.' Morris regularly faces death threats for her brave reporting. The riots in Ballymena are about racism and nothing more. Hatred smothers every brick and petrol bomb thrown. Nobody causing trouble cares about women or children. There are no legitimate concerns at the heart of this. Local Facebook groups with links to the far right are asking for addresses to hit – Roma people are the main target of their ire. Flyers posted around towns and cities call for people to take a stand to protect 'our women' and 'our Christian values'. The trigger for the violence in Ballymena was the trauma and pain of a local family. Earlier in the week, two 14-year-old boys were arrested and charged with the attempted rape of a young girl. Romanian interpreters were required at court. After the arrests, the alleged victim's family asked for support and solidarity from their local community. Hundreds did so, peacefully protesting to show the family that they weren't alone. Then came the violence. The chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the victim of the alleged assault has been 'further traumatised' by the rioting. Her family have publicly called for the violence to stop. Women have never been safe in Northern Ireland. Generations bore the weight of the Troubles, running households and raising children with absent husbands. Hundreds were murdered in the conflict. During the peace talks that led to the Good Friday agreement, the Women's Coalition, a political party, described the 30-year conflict as an 'armed patriarchy'. Northern Ireland isn't a place where women and girls are cherished. The PSNI recorded 4,090 sexual offences in Northern Ireland in 2023-24. Twenty-five women have been killed in five years, mostly by white men from Northern Ireland. I knew one of them: Natalie McNally. We used to be mates. She last contacted me to ask about the home-buying process (I used to be a conveyancing solicitor). Natalie was buying her first house and the process was dragging on. She was killed in that same house in December 2022, her 15-week-old son in her belly. I was holding my own four-week-old son when I learned that she was dead. The trial is due to take place in November, with the accused previously indicating that he is pleading not guilty. Well, some say, if we have lots of homegrown criminals, we don't need more. This is, again, another racist argument, an age-old trope that non-white men are sexual deviants. The problem is men, full stop. In every country in the world, in every community and every faith, people hate women. Misogyny doesn't respect borders. Fascists want to talk about foreign men to distract from their own disgusting behaviour. Immigration concerns have featured heavily in the news. Because of the Troubles, Northern Ireland always had low levels of migration. That has changed in recent years. Net migration reached its highest levels in 15 years in 2024. No doubt this has changed certain areas and proved alienating for local people and migrants alike. However, according to a Northern Ireland assembly report, Northern Ireland is still the least diverse region of the UK. Only 3.4% of people are from a minority ethnic group, compared to 18.3% in England. Before migrant numbers rose, Northern Ireland's public services were on their knees. The health service has all but collapsed. The housing system is under considerable strain, we don't have enough housing to meet demand and rents have risen to unaffordable levels. People have migrated into this mess. It would be churlish to deny that higher numbers have put pressure on the system. But it's a flat-out lie to blame migrants and refugees for this country's ills. Migrants didn't decimate the NHS. Refugees didn't underfund social housing and homeless services. Local and national politicians did that. They are doing very little to fix the systems that broke under their watch. It's easier to blame people working as Deliveroo drivers. Northern Ireland needs to tackle its fondness for racism and xenophobia. Racially motivated hate crime is at its highest level since records began. It affects every community, Catholic and Protestant. You can't 'legitimate concern' your way through a pogrom and doing so only validates hatred. If women in Northern Ireland rioted every time one of us was attacked, the country would lie in ashes. Sarah Creighton is a lawyer, writer and political commentator from Northern Ireland
Daily Mail
an hour ago
- Daily Mail
Carer bit chunk out of friend's face in 'brutal' dancefloor attack over ex-boyfriend before kicking police officer in the head
A violent carer who bit a chunk out of her friend's cheek in a 'brutal' nightclub attack, before kicking and spitting at a police officer during a separate incident, has been struck off after attempting to conceal her convictions. Danielle Gaffar, 24, from Dundee, was formerly close to victim Kyra-Louise Strachan, but the pair - both aged 18 at the time - fell out over her ex-boyfriend. In February 2019, Gaffar approached Ms Strachan while at Aura nightclub in Dundee and pounced on her from behind, causing the victim's head to be viciously slammed to the floor. She then felt teeth sinking into her cheek as Gaffar continued the attack, which left Ms Strachan requiring eight stitches and suffering permanent disfigurement. Gruesome images shared on social media after the attack showed part of Ms Strachan's cheek hanging off. Gaffar pleaded guilty and was led weeping to the cells after being handed a 16-month jail term at Dundee Sheriff Court, with Sheriff Tom Hughes rebuking the carer for her 'reprehensible' conduct. Despite the severity of her actions, Gaffer failed to disclose her conviction for the assault to both her employee and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) when she registered to be a support worker in a care home last January, Edinburgh Live reported. Then six months later, Gaffer was again in trouble with the law when she became intoxicated while attending a house party and had to be prevented from driving away. In February 2019, Gaffar launched a vicious attack on Kyra-Louise Strachan while at Aura nightclub in Dundee, causing her victim to suffer permanent disfigurement Dundee Sheriff Court heard how after police were called, she kicked an officer on the head while being put in the back of a police van. Gaffar then later spat on the officer while being processed for failing to provide a breath test and being in control of an unregistered vehicle. She received a community payback order, including 186 hours of unpaid work and was banned from driving for 13 months. Despite this second conviction, Gaffar failed to tell the SSSC. In a decision issued yesterday, the regulator said Gaffar would be removed from the social care register. The SSSC said: 'You have been convicted of two violent criminal offences in the space of five years. This demonstrates a disregard for the law, lack of self-control and propensity to violence. 'Your actions resulted in physical, and likely emotional, harm to the victims.' It continued: 'The pattern of both violent and dishonest behaviour under consideration is indicative of an underlying values concern which is fundamentally incompatible with registration as a social service worker. 'You have failed to engage with the SSSC investigations into your fitness to practise, therefore your position is not known. 'Due to your lack of insight, remorse, and assurances in respect of future behaviour the SSSC cannot be assured that there is not an ongoing risk of repetition.' The report concluded: 'Your behaviour damages the reputation of the profession and needs to be marked as unacceptable.'
BBC News
an hour ago
- BBC News
Man dies in single vehicle A1 crash near Dishforth
A man in his twenties has died after a crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire on Thursday incident happened on the southbound slip road of the A168/A1M junction, near Dishforth, at about 23:55 BST, according to North Yorkshire PoliceAn ambulance and air ambulance team attended but he was pronounced dead at the man was driving a blue BMW 1 Series and no other vehicles are believed to have been involved, a police spokesperson said. Police have appealed for witnesses and anyone with dashcam footage of the incident or the vehicle in the moments leading up to it to get in touch. Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
