A teenager just 16 years old plunged a knife into a woman’s chest in a startling biphobic attack in Canterbury, England. In a crime that the victim says “scarred” her for life, Jack Green met student Megan Murphy and her friends at a Direct Pizza in Northgate during the early hours of October. But after trailing the group, Green and four others took aim at Muprhy’s bisexual friend. As a scuffle broke out, Green stabbed Muprhy in the chest, leaving her with a permanent scar, Kent Police said in a news release. (…) But the mood in the pizzeria quickly bristled with tension when Green began to berate Muprhy’s bisexual friend, Lewis Eaves. Eaves described the almost “animalistic rage” Green showed towards him, leaving him “appalled by the biphobic attitude” the teen showed. Green and the others trailed Muprhy as they left towards Victoria Row. Biphobia quickly curdled into violence as the group jerry-rigged weapons and lobbed bricks and bottles at Muprhy and her pals. They even smashed a nearby telephone box all while shouting anti-LGBT+ insults, saying “she’s feisty” and “she’s dead”. Surveillance footage played at the Canterbury Crown Court showed the harrowing moment the two groups stood inches from one another. Off-camera, Murphy screams as Green’s group flees the scene – prosecutor James Benson said that Green had drawn a curved blade and stabbed Murphy. “He raised the knife over his head,” Benson described, “Megan Murphy raised her hands to protect herself, she stepped backwards and the defendant plunged the knife into her upper right chest.” As much as Muprhy has since made a full recovery, the trauma of what happened to her had been engraved in her mind; and etched, literally, on her chest. She was forced to pause her studies as a result.
via pink news: Woman left ‘scarred for life’ after boy stabs her in ‘animalistic’ biphobic attack