In reply to mypyrex:
Using his photo without permission to promote a political message, has some sort of moral equivalence with mugging an old soldier for his war medals?
Seriously?
> He said: "I was walking to the cenotaph in the centre of town for Remembrance Sunday, the same route I have taken every year for as long as I can recall. "I'd stopped in Lund Park to look at the embers of a fire which had been lit near a sign when out of nowhere I was grabbed or hit from behind. "My beret was knocked off my head and I stumbled to the ground. I tried to stay on my feet because I didn't know what would happen if I went to ground. "I had not seen the gang of about six to eight Asian lads before this and I think they had been hiding in bushes. "I had not seen or heard them or done anything to intimidate them.
> They were laughing and joking and speaking in a foreign language, not in English, so I don't know what they were saying. "I was shaken and couldn't understand what was happening. They had taken my beret as a trophy and they were tearing it at like a pack of dogs with a piece of meat. They thought it was funny." Mr Gill said that the gang "ran off laughing and joking" out of the park near the bowling green, before he realised his medals were also missing. "My poppy had been ragged at but they had not managed to steal that," he said. "My lip was cut and I was shaken. I can only think I was targeted because of what I was wearing because it was not a mugging or robbery, because I had £200 in cash on me and they didn't take that or ask for money."
> Mr Gill joined up in 1966 and rose from Private to Sergeant until he left following 18 years' service. He then got a job in security. He served in Cyprus, Hong Kong, Japan, Gibraltar, Malaysia, and Northern Ireland, where he lost comrades.
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