Oh Lauren why?(she was was sentenced to four months in jail suspended and 80 hrs community service) →
Lauren Socha, a star of E4’s Misfits, has pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault of a taxi driver.
The BAFTA-winning actress, who plays Kelly in the teen drama, was sentenced to four months in jail for attacking Sakander Iqbal in Derby city centre in the early hours of the morning on October 1 last year.….
Socha was accused of punching and racially abusing the cab driver following a nine-hour drinking session. Iqbal, 52, is quoted by The Independent as saying that the incident represents the worst abuse he has received since moving to the UK in 1970.
“She called me a P**i, a dirty b**stard and said, ‘You’re Asian, f**k off back to where you came from’,” he told reporters. “She said, ‘Do you know who I am? I’ll have your family lifted’.”….
(via misfitsworld)
