A father had a piece of flesh bitten from his hand by a man who jumped the queue in a chip shop.
Shane, 25, who is too frightened to give his surname, spoke of his ordeal in an appeal for witnesses to help track down his attacker.
“We were waiting to be served and this bloke came in and pushed in front of my girlfriend,” he said.
“She said, ‘Excuse me, you jumped the queue.’ I just thought that he would be a gentleman, like any normal person, and say, ‘Sorry, you go first’.
“But he got really aggressive really quickly. I asked him not to speak to her like that, but he pushed me over, sat on top of me and bit the top of my finger off and then a chunk out of the palm of my hand. It was unbelievably painful.” The man then dragged Shane outside the Station Fish and Kebab Bar in South Street, Romford, and into the crowded street, where no one came to help him.
He said: “He was still on top of me and in the struggle my hand was in the road and a bus ran over it. He was some sort of animal.”
The 10-minute attack ended when the man fled, apparently on a bus, laughing and waving.
Shane, the father of an eight-month-old baby, had his knuckle wired closed at Queen’s Hospital and received 40 stitches and a tetanus jab.
Police appealed for witnesses to the attack at 2.10am on Saturday, February 2 by a black man who was six feet tall. Anyone with information should call Romford CID on 101, or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
