A VIOLENT trio has been punished for an unprovoked racist attack on a Chinese couple.
Pamela Lawson, aged 18, and Sophie Atkinson, aged 17, repeatedly kicked and punched Jessica Cao in Lewisham High Street on November 30 last year.
A court heard how the pair kicked Miss Coa's head "like a football" as a third yob, 22-year-old Neil Atkinson, attacked her boyfriend Michael Zheng.
The attack took place after the two girls repeatedly shouted racial abuse at the couple.
Neil Atkinson, of St Germains Road, Forest Hill, admitted racially-aggravated assault.
He was jailed for 18 months at Blackfrairs Crown Court on October 27.
His sister Sophie, of the same address, pleaded guilty to racially-aggravated assault and was handed a six-month detention and training order.
Lawton, of Waters Road, Catford, also admitted the same charge.
She was given an 18-month rehabilitation order and told to observe a curfew between 7pm and 7am.
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