Youths who threw eggs at Chinese students over coronavirus may have struck again in Harborough

An urgent police investigation has been launched after offenders hurled eggs at a shocked 20-year-old man in St Mary’s Place, Harborough, on Friday February 21.

A Leicestershire Police spokesman said: “The person making the report told police that eggs had been thrown at two other locations, but no other reports have been received.”

The spokesman said police are now appealing for information and seeking any eye-witnesses.

And he said they are feared to be the youths who targeted a Chinese boy and a Vietnamese teenager, aged 16 and 17, in The Square on Monday February 3.

The stunned Brooke House College students were attacked at about 6.30pm in a racially-motivated assault.

“Enquiries are continuing to identify the suspects and it is believed they may have been responsible for a similar incident in The Square earlier this month,” said the police spokesman.

“Anyone who was in St Mary’s Place on Friday evening and has information regarding this incident is asked to call police on 101, quoting reference 20*101773.”