Zaynab Hussein was thrown into the air. Moore then turned his car around and drove over her. She was left with severe fractures to her pelvis and spine, and a broken leg and was in hospital for almost three months and remains confined to a bed. Minutes after this attack Moore attempted to hit a girl walking to school.
Moore told his half-brother he had attacked a “Paki” and was “proud of himself”. The court heard he had said he was “doing the country a favour” after terrorist attacks in London.
In a statement released after the verdict, Barre Duale, Hussein’s husband, said: “When Paul Moore said he attacked a Paki for Britain and that he was proud of it, he was actually attacking Britain. He was attacking a British mother, a British wife, a productive British worker and charity volunteer. He wasn’t attacking terrorists; he was joining their ranks by doing what they do and attacking an innocent woman. Our family has been heartbroken by the attack. Whatever sentence Paul Moore receives will be less than the life sentence that my wife will have to live with"
Dr Shazad Amin, the chief executive of Muslim Engagement and Development pointed to figures that showed a 45% increase in race and religious hate crime in Leicestershire in 2016-17, compared with the previous year, with 1,010 separate incidents.
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