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WW2 Veteran Attacked On Way Home From Wife’s Grave
A Second World War veteran has been left bloodied and bruised following a road rage attack.
87-year-old Alfred Irons was returning from a visit to his wife’s grave when a man got out of his van and opened the pensioner’s car door before punching him in the face and knocking out four of his teeth.
The attacker then tried to drag him out of his car.
The former Lancaster bomber engineer had his car keys taken from him and thrown into a bush.
The man who committed the assault is said to be between 60 and 70 with a shaved head.
According to The Sun, the former RAF man, who had just left his wife Doreen’s grave at Chingford Mount Cemetery, said:
“I didn’t know what was happening, I was just sitting there waiting for the lights to change. I didn’t even have time to be scared, suddenly the door opened. I had no chance.”
“I just turned round and he smashed me in the face. He hit me two times. He grabbed my arm so hard there were marks on it and I started bleeding."
“If I could have got out I would have had real fight with him.”
A passer-by helped him home after the attack which took place in Nazeing, Essex.
Doreen died last year. She was 80-years-old.
Cover image: Chingford Mount Cemetery. Courtesy: John Davies
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