In an age of madness, the unbreakable spirit of Katie Hopkins soars



In an age of madness, we need fearless people. The United Kingdom, a country that has slowly slipped into authoritarianism, has found a maverick in British comedian and political commentator Katie Hopkins. Her unapologetic truth-telling and hilarious politically incorrect jokes have gotten her deported from Australia, detained in Africa, threatened with jail time in England, and nearly beheaded by jihadi terrorists. But Katie remains unbowed.

“I choose all of it and more. If I’m arrested when I return home, please know I choose it because this is the time, and we will be dragged through more coals, but this is the time to be alive," she says.

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast,” Katie shared the wildest stories from her extraordinary life and explained why she refuses to stay silent.

South Africa, 2018

After realizing that the genocide of white South African farmers at the hands of black gangs was going unreported, Katie did what most would never even consider: She moved to South Africa and lived on white farms for three months.

With a trustworthy camera and security crew, Katie filmed a documentary capturing the truth about the horrendous plight of white farmers in South Africa — a place she says is a far cry from the “multicultural glory pot” the media and global governments pretend it is.

“At night in South Africa on white farms is where the monsters come,” she tells Glenn.

“Gangs of black men armed with weapons that were laid down by whites during the time of apartheid” come to torture and kill white farmers and their families in ways Katie says are too barbaric to describe. The entire “targeted campaign” is “aided and abetted by black police forces.”

Although she entered the country “securely and secretly,” a month into her stay, Katie began releasing the documentary footage. “Because I was determined to be heard,” she says. The African National Congress, privy to her whereabouts and purpose, then began “chasing” her as she traveled between farms.

“By the time I went back to the airport, the ANC had caught up with me,” she tells Glenn.

When she tried to board the plane back home, she found that her passport had been flagged. Airport officials confiscated it and detained Katie. Knowing that if she was taken to a South African jail, she would never come out again, Katie’s security detail was prepared to “open fire on the South African police.”

But luck or divine providence was in her favor that day. The police chief was off duty, and Katie was eventually allowed to board the plane and return home.

Australia, 2021

In 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Katie was granted a special visa exemption to appear as a contestant on the reality TV show “Big Brother VIP.” Upon arrival in Sydney, she was placed in mandatory 14-day quarantine in accordance with the country’s lockdown mandates.

They sent “Australian military men to get me off the plane to put me in a quarantine prison for 14 days,” she says.

The rules enforced upon her were beyond severe: “I was not allowed a key. I was not allowed to touch the front door of my hotel room. I was not allowed to come out for food,” she tells Glenn.

“When they delivered the food, they would knock on the door. I was given a little egg timer. ... I had to turn the egg timer, wait six seconds (because obviously COVID would know), and then I was allowed to go to the door to get my food.”

Three days into her quarantine, Katie had reached her limit. She went “full-blooming Winston Churchill mode” and livestreamed a YouTube video to 3 million viewers, calling for the Australian people “to rise” up against the country’s COVID tyranny.

Being a comedian, Katie joked, “I am going to strip myself naked. I’m going to cover myself in vegetable oil, and I’m going to make a run down the 29th floor, and I’m going to grab a member of that military, and I’m going to drag him into my room, and I’m going to do terrible things to him."

Even though no such thing happened, major media outlets, including Al Jazeera, CNN, and BBC, reported that Katie indeed violated a military officer.

“Within a moment, my life went very dark indeed. So they turned off the water, the lights, no more food,” she says, adding that the Australian government then denied having issued her a travel visa, framing her as “an illegal immigrant.”

“Eventually two minibus full of men came, rounded me up, put me in the back of a white van, took me to the airport, and walked me onto the plane,” she recounts, noting that her passport now has a giant red “DEPORTED” stamp on it.

But the craziest part came next. After her deportation, Katie went to a tattoo shop and had the red deported stamp tattooed on her rear end. “And then I sent the picture of my ass to the deputy prime minister of Australia,” she laughs.

To hear more of Katie’s wild tales and her take on the Pakistani rape gangs in the U.K., Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Donald Trump, and other topics, watch the full interview above.

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2 victims at the Manchester synagogue were shot, 1 of them fatally — but the attacker didn't have a gun



On Thursday, a man rammed his car into a crowd of people and proceeded to go on a stabbing spree outside a synagogue in Manchester, England. While several casualties were originally reported, Greater Manchester Police have released new details that cast a different shadow on the atrocity.

Police have since reported that examination of the bodies has revealed that Jihad Al-Shamie, the named perpetrator of the attack, did not cause all of the injuries in the incident.

'This injury may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers to bring this vicious attack to an end.'

In a statement published at 10:35 a.m. local time, less than an hour after the Thursday attack, police reported: “Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9:38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender.”

Additionally, this first report indicated that four people were injured, stating that there were “currently four members of the public with injuries caused by both the vehicle and stab wounds.”

In the wake of the attack, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham wrote on X: "We condemn whoever is responsible and will do everything within our power to keep people safe."

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Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for the Home Department Shabana Mahmood, and Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson visit the scene at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue.Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

In a another report timestamped at 12:10 p.m. local time, police confirmed the deaths of two victims of the attack. The offender was also believed to be dead, but police did not confirm his death at that time over safety issues due to “suspicious items on his person.”

The other report varied from the first report in the number of injured victims, saying that there were only “three other members of the public … in a serious condition.” It did not mention a fourth injured person.

It is unclear what led to the discrepancy in the number of injured people in the reports, particularly because the next update returned to reporting that four were injured.

In a report timestamped at 15:56, or 3:56 p.m. local time, police stated that “four further people remain in hospital, having suffered a variety of serious injuries and their treatment is ongoing.”

Police also added that two additional suspects were arrested and in custody at that time.

The statement added that those inside the synagogue were kept safe because of the heroic actions of those inside, who barricaded the entrance to prevent the attacker from gaining entrance: “All those inside were safely contained until police were able to confirm that it was safe to leave the premises.”

The 15:56 report suggested that the police identified the suspect but said it was “premature” to reveal his identity at that time.

In a report timestamped at 21:05, nearly 12 hours after the attack, police provided new, substantive information, including the arrest of three total suspects, two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s, and the identity of the attacker, 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, “a British citizen of Syrian descent.”

One of the victims in the hospital likewise 'suffered a gunshot wound, which is mercifully not life-threatening.'

The statement once more confirmed the deaths of two innocent men and the serious injury of only three men, varying once again from previous reports.

As was established in the first report from 10:35 that morning, the victims sustained injury from the car ramming into the crowd as well as stab wounds, the 21:05 report said. The report gave more information of the nature of the injuries: “Three other men remain in hospital with serious injuries. One sustained a stab wound and a second was struck by the car involved in the attack.”

Police then gave the first indication of a new development in the story: “The third man later presented himself at hospital with an injury that may have been sustained as officers stopped the attacker.”

The following morning at approximately 10:54 local time, Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson provided another update on X about the perpetrator and the deceased victims, suggesting that police were responsible for one of the deaths and one of the severe injuries: “The Home Office Pathologist has advised that he was provisionally determined, that one of the deceased victims would appear to have suffered a wound consistent with a gunshot injury.”

"This injury may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers to bring this vicious attack to an end," Watson continued, adding that one of the victims in the hospital likewise "suffered a gunshot wound, which is mercifully not life-threatening."

The report further ruled out the possibility that Jihad Al-Shamie shot any victims. He was “not in possession of a firearm and the only shots fired were from GMP’s Authorised Firearms Officers as they worked to prevent the offender from entering the synagogue and causing harm to our Jewish community.”

The deceased victims were named as Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz in a police update on social media.

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UK government makes digital ID mandatory to get a job: 'Safer, fairer and more secure'



Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday that digital ID will become mandatory in order to be employed in the United Kingdom.

The new ID is part of a government plan to allegedly help fight illegal immigration. The idea is that illegal employment is what is attracting many migrants to make the treacherous trip across the English Channel to move to the U.K.

'You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID.'

Starmer said the IDs would not only make it more difficult to work in the U.K. illegally but that it would offer "countless benefits" to citizens. The BBC reported that senior minister Darren Jones claimed the IDs could also be "the bedrock of the modern state."

The prime minister made the announcement at the Global Progressive Action Conference in London on Friday, stating, "Our immigration system does need to be fair if we want to maintain that binding contract that our politics is built on."

Starmer continued, "And that is why today I am announcing this government will make a new, free of charge digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament. Let me spell that out: You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID."

"It's as simple as that," the leader sternly stated, before making a moral argument. "Because decent, pragmatic, fair-minded people, they want us to tackle the issues that they see around them. And, of course, the truth is, we won't solve our problems if we don't also take on the root causes."

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The knighted leader continued to claim that the move was an attempt by the government to have "control over its borders."

"We do need to know who is in our country," Starmer added.

"It is not compassionate left-wing politics to rely on labor that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages."

Jonathan Brash, a member of parliament from Hartlepool and politician in Starmer's party, said that it was important to "explode the myths and conspiracy theories being spread on Digital ID."

"It will make our country safer, fairer and more secure," Brash said on his X page, along with an image of a political poster that said the same.

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"This is a battle for freedom," English reporter Lewis Brackpool told Blaze News. "Liberalism is to blame. This attitude of 'live and let live' caused this freedom-robbing policy. It's time for Brits to take a stand."

Brackpool called for peaceful resistance while pointing to his work with Restore Britain, which has already begun investigating the government's intentions behind the project.

"The British public deserves full transparency on Digital ID drifting into surveillance and financial control," he wrote on X.

In early September, Blaze News reported that both French President Emmanuel Macron and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair were urging Starmer to consider making digital IDs mandatory.

The Daily Mail reported that Blair was pushing the idea in backroom conversations, continuing his early-2000s attempt to push the IDs on the country's citizenry.

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Trump signs new tech deal with UK



On the last day of his state visit to the United Kingdom, President Trump joined Prime Minister Keir Starmer for a meeting and to sign a new U.S.-U.K. agreement on tech and AI. Starmer called the deal “a blueprint to win this new era together.”

The day began at Windsor Castle with a military band performance and an impressive flyover from the RAF’s Red Arrows. Trump then traveled to Chequers — the country residence of the U.K. prime minister — to meet with Starmer.

Trump called the agreement 'the next logical step' in what he called 'the Anglo-American alliance.'

After the closed-doors meeting, Trump and Starmer spoke briefly at a reception with U.S. leaders in tech and AI and then officially signed the Technology Prosperity Deal. In addressing the deal, Starmer emphasized the “incredible relationship” between the two countries, saying, “It comes down to leaders, of course, leaders who respect one another.”

Both Trump and Starmer focused on the strength of their personal relationship and the strength of U.S.-U.K. relations. Trump characterized these ties as “priceless” and pointed to the new deal as “making those ties closer than ever before.”

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The deal focuses on AI, quantum computing, and nuclear energy through joint funding, resource sharing, and cooperation between the governments and top tech companies of both nations. Highlights include the creation of a U.S.-U.K. task force on quantum computing, cutting back regulations, and investing in the U.K.’s nuclear energy sector.

Starmer characterized the deal as “U.S. capital and entrepreneurial spirit combined with British ideas and ingenuity.” He praised the economic effects of the deal, saying, “It means life-changing investments across the U.K."

Trump called the agreement “the next logical step” in what he called “the Anglo-American alliance.” He praised the strength of U.S.-U.K. relations and went on to say that “together we are building up the industrial capacity of both our countries.” He characterized the new deal as opening up “new government, academic, and private sector cooperation.”

President Trump and the first lady departed for the U.S. in the late afternoon.

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Patriots flood London streets for Unite the Kingdom festival: 'Cultural revolution has begun'



Patriots in London gathered Saturday for a historic march organized by British independent journalist Tommy Robinson.

Authorities estimated that the crowd, which flooded the blocks surrounding Whitehall, included roughly 100,000 individuals. Yet Robinson and other attendees of "Unite the Kingdom" placed those estimates in the millions.

'The despicable traitor UK Prime Minister Slippery Starmer and virtually all of the corrupted regime media are lying about the Uniting the Kingdom rally.'

"We asked: 'where are the men of England?'" Robinson wrote in a social media post the day after the festival. "And instead of only the men of England. The men, women, even their children, from all four corners of the UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the list goes on, came calling, in their millions."

Robinson declared that "a cultural revolution has begun."

"The liberal elite and legacy media have labelled, everyone, 'far right,' for simply voicing an opinion that doesn't fit theirs," Robinson said. "Those labels don't wash anymore, they massively overplayed their hands and exposed themselves. Millions of us in London yesterday. United as one."

American podcaster Dan Keith stated, "The [sheer] weight of this massive crowd in London protesting their government and celebrating free speech is unbelievable with @TRobinsonNewEra and friends."

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The legacy media labeled the gathering a far-right anti-immigration protest, highlighting roughly two dozen arrests. The Metropolitan Police accused the Unite the Kingdom attendees of "significant aggression," but those on the ground rejected those assertions.

"The despicable traitor U.K. Prime Minister Slippery Starmer and virtually all of the corrupted regime media are lying about the Uniting the Kingdom rally," journalist Dan Wootton, who was on the ground reporting on the march, told Blaze News. "I broadcast the entire day. All six hours on the Outspoken YouTube."

"It was a patriotic celebration of love designed to take back our country, with a special appearance from Elon Musk, who made a plea to save our Disunited Kingdom," Wootton continued. "They've even lied about the numbers in attendance, with police claiming 110,000 when over 1 million were there. Luckily with the rise of the independent media here, patriots are no longer prepared to be gaslit."

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Carl Benjamin, a political commentator who spoke at Saturday's gathering, previously told Blaze News, "Today's Unite the Kingdom rally shows the scale of the discontent in Britain against not just the current government, but the entire system itself. The scale of the rally shows that people are tired of being treated as second-class citizens in their own country."

"There was no 'significant aggression,' just a couple of trivial skirmishes at the fringes of the events which came to nothing," Benjamin continued. "The entire day had the atmosphere of a festival, very family-friendly, and a powerful demonstration of patriotism."

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God save the English pub



Forget about the riots, censorship, and the gradual transition into full-blown anarcho-tyranny. If the pub dies, England will truly lose its soul.

Let me explain. We like to drink. A lot. English culture revolves around alcohol, like electrons around a nucleus. Drinking is in our blood. There’s nothing we won’t drink to, no place we won’t pop open a beer.

Elsewhere, an angry Muslim man is suing the Saracen’s Head in Buckinghamshire for its alleged ’Islamophobic’ name and sign.

When commercial air travel became affordable to the working class, the airplane evolved into a flying bar. I once boarded the same plane as a bunch of inebriated women on a hen party to Spain. A drunken woman punching a man on an economy flight to Ibiza is something of a British rite of passage.

Drinking it in

Ours is a country steeped in history, tradition, and strong drink. Like the Irish, we can boast of many an ale-quaffing literary heavyweight. It was Chaucer who made reference to the Tabard Inn almost 700 years ago in "The Canterbury Tales." Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare drank in the George Inn just a few yards away.

The Tabard was demolished in 1873. The George still exists but only as a museum — an apt symbol for our current crisis.

A few days ago, I walked past a place I regularly used to drink. It was like seeing a ghost. A poster case housing thousands of papered-over concert flyers half an inch thick has been ripped down, leaving the exposed brickwork cracked, discolored, and casting an ominous shadow.

From a broken window, I saw that the chairs were stacked on tables, the oak bar counter was gone, and the copper foot rail had been removed from its bolts. The doors were locked, and the loud neon sign that had once welcomed me in like an old friend now sat silently on the ground, gathering dirt.

Poignant pints

Standing there, aghast, my heart sank, and I felt the pangs of nostalgia. You see, It was more than just a pub. It was a repository of memories. Imagine if bricks could tell stories: a place that my friend took me after my first break up. As a young man, it was where I came to know my father as he slipped a pint across the table without saying anything. On late nights, it was where co-workers danced while the jukebox played the Pogues and everyone sang along.

I remember the beer garden where I chatted up a future girlfriend, asking her for a light, and that dimly lit back room where I jumped off a speaker stack into the sticky, beer-soaked floor at my first ever live gig. It’s where my best friend shared his heart-wrenching news that he only had a few weeks left and the place where locals came together to raise a glass in his memory when he was gone.

What ales us

We are losing an average of one pub per day. Since 2020, more than 2,000 have shut their doors for good. Economic factors have played a big part in the decline of the industry. Escalating business rates, VAT, and alcohol duties are causing many pubs to close — one-third of the cost of a pint now goes toward taxes. Landlords have been forced to increase prices due to the escalating expenses. It's predicted that the price of a pint could double in less than a decade. In some parts of London, it has reached 10 pounds. As a result, many people now buy alcohol from the off license (liquor store) and drink it at home.

The culture wars have also played a part. Pubs with names like the Black Bitch, the Black Boy, and the Blacks Head have all been changed due to racial identitarians spouting nonsense about systemic/structural/institutional racism.

Head case

Elsewhere, an angry Muslim man is suing the Saracen’s Head in Buckinghamshire for its alleged "Islamophobic" name and sign. Every time Khalid Baqa walks past the pub in Amersham, he is "shocked and deeply offended" seeing the name Saracen — the name for Arabs and Muslims in the Middle Ages. The 61-year-old Baqa claims that the pub sign "incites violence" and glorifies "decapitating/beheading Muslims." He wants the landlord to pay him £1,800 for the offense. If successful, he plans to target the other 30 British pubs with the same name.

The plaintiff turns out to be a convicted terrorist. In 2018, he was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for creating and distributing jihadi propaganda. No need to worry; in an interview with the Sun newspaper, he claims to have "stopped all the terrorism stuff now."

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Ours to save

Defending our culture goes far beyond stopping a mad Muslim pensioner from declaring jihad on a 500-year-old bar. We must fight a true culture war. In order to save pubs, taxes must be cut, grants and subsidies allocated to community-owned pubs, and new planning laws enacted to prevent developers from tearing down historic buildings such as pubs and churches, which serve as important social hubs.

Pubs are where the English laugh, cry, and argue. They bring people together. As a result, they act as an antidote to loneliness and isolation, two of the most insidious and pervasive threats in our time. As I sat in my new local pub, I noticed a young woman and her father befriending an elderly man. Three strangers, two generations bonded over fries and Guinness. That’s what community means. And we are losing it.

Europe pushes for digital ID to help 'crack down' on completely unrelated problems



European leaders are pushing for the implementation of digital identification.

Specifically, both French President Emmanuel Macron and former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair have urged sitting U.K. PM Keir Starmer to consider making digital IDs mandatory.

'The same playbook is being used as a justification for broader powers to the establishment.'

Starmer is under pressure from English activists to stem illegal immigration, with illegal transport by sea from France being the primary focus. For this reason, Macron said he wants Starmer to address the "pull factors" that are allegedly attracting illegal immigrants to the U.K.

Apparently, digital ID would be the best way to do that, according to the French president.

As reported by the Independent, a compulsory national ID card is being considered by the U.K.'s highest office.

"We're willing to look at what works when it comes to tackling illegal migration, ... in terms of applications of digital ID to the immigration system," the prime minister's spokesman said.

"The point here is looking at what works, ensuring that we're doing what we can to address some of the drivers of illegal migration, tackle those pull factors, ensure that we're doing everything we can to crack down on illegal working," the spokesman added, echoing Macron's reasoning.

Simultaneously, a push factor is coming internally from former U.K. leader Blair, who actually tried the scheme before during his third term as prime minister.

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The Daily Mail reported that Blair was pushing the idea behind the scenes, continuing his attempt from the early 2000s to enforce the mandatory digital ID.

"In 2005, there was a huge vote which unfortunately was narrowly passed for ID cards in order to crack down on crime," Lewis Brackpool, director of investigations at Restore Britain, told Blaze News. "Many ministers were incredibly skeptical on this move due to its ever increasing powers to the state."

Brackpool cited a 2004 BBC report that criticized the IDs as a "badly thought out" excuse to fight organized crime and terrorism. It noted then that plans for the cards included biometric data that carried fingerprints and iris scans, and would have become compulsory in 2013. The plan was abandoned in 2010.

The Englishman continued, "Now, 20 years on, the same playbook is being used as a justification for broader powers to the establishment. Tony Blair is somewhere in his evil lair rubbing his hands and cackling; his career ambition is coming to fruition."

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The implementation of digital ID is straight from the playbook of the World Economic Forum, the yearly gathering of world elites where globalist policy is discussed and planned.

Seven years before the WEF broadcasted its report on reimagining digital ID and before its ideas became globally criticized, it published "A Blueprint for Digital Identity" in 2016.

The report boasted of the Aadhaar program, a government initiative from India that was implemented in order to "increase social and financial inclusion" for Indians. The Unique Identification Authority of India holds a database of user information "such as name, date of birth, and biometrics data that may include a photograph, fingerprint, iris scan, or other information."

Over 1 billion Indians have enrolled in the program for the 12-digit identity number, and it continues today.

As for England, "It is not a reasonable solution," Brackpool says. "It is the very thing many concerned British citizens and campaigners have been warning about for years down the line."

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Police charge man and woman in connection with Scottish axe girl incident



Police Scotland has charged a man and a woman in connection with the young, axe-wielding Scottish girl who went viral online.

In late August, a 12-year-old Scottish girl was charged with possessing weapons after online rumors swirled that she was fending off a migrant man. She was seen brandishing an axe and a large knife on video.

The following week, both the accused immigrant and an alleged witness spoke out, providing conflicting accounts of the events in St Ann Lane, Dundee, Scotland.

Now, police have laid subsequent charges.

'They are thankful that everyone now knows the truth.'

In a statement to Blaze News, Police Scotland said, "Following extensive enquiries, a man and a woman have been charged in connection with an incident in St Ann Lane in Dundee, which was reported around 7:40 p.m. on Saturday, 23 August, 2025."

The statement added, "The circumstances will be reported to the Procurator Fiscal," otherwise known as Scotland's public prosecutor.

Police Scotland also said the 12-year-old girl who was previously charged for "being in possession of offensive weapons" will be referred to the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration, a government body that decides whether a child needs legal intervention from the state.

"Members of the public are again urged not to share misinformation about this incident or speculate on the circumstances," the statement concluded.

The new charges seemingly confirm allegations made in a witness testimony, as well as claims made online by a reporter who claims to have been in communication with the 12-year-old's family.

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Fatos Ali Dumana, the accused 21-year-old Bulgarian immigrant, had previously told the Daily Mail, "If I did hurt the girl, why didn't the police arrest me? They have done nothing to me."

He added, "They saw from the CCTV cameras from Farmfoods that she was stopping me go on my way to the shop."

Dumana also alleged that another bystander witnessed him being attacked and labeled a "f**king migrant."

"I did not hit them. I am a human, not an animal," he added.

At the same time, a TikTok user named Mayah, 13, said in a video testimony that she witnessed the incident personally. Mayah said she was with two sisters, Ruby, 13, and Lola, 12, the latter of whom was allegedly subjected to inappropriate remarks from a strange man.

As the altercation escalated, the alleged witness claimed that the man's sister attacked Ruby, causing head injuries and sending her to the hospital with a concussion.

"She has a severe concussion and swelling inside of her head," Mayah said.

It was at that point Lola allegedly brandished the weapons in an effort to protect her sister.

Neither Dumana's nor Mayah's testimonies have benefited from any further proof from witnesses, CCTV, or evidence from police, but an independent reporter — who says he has spoken with the family — now says he has concrete evidence to go along with the newly laid charges.

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A reporter going by the online moniker Aesthetica claims to have been in contact with Lola's family and even to have helped her mother, Elaine Thomson, start a fundraiser.

Aesthetica told Blaze News exclusively that Police Scotland "confirmed to the family" that "Fatos Ali Dumana and his sister were the two people charged."

Police Scotland said they had "nothing further to add" when asked by Blaze News for the names, ages, and/or nationalities of the two adults who were charged. They also neither confirmed nor denied if Dumana was the man who was charged.

Blaze News also reached out to Dumana for comment about the alleged charges and the claims made by Aesthetica, but did not receive a reply.

Image provided to Blaze News by 'Aesthetica' on X

Reporter Aesthetica provided an alleged hospital document to Blaze News, purported to be from Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Scotland. The document is an attempt to prove that Ruby sought medical aid from injuries stemming from the altercation.

The document is addressed to a person with the alleged last name of Ruby and Lola. It shows treatment was provided for a "diagnosis" of a "head injury — concussion."

The photo also shows the examination was done to a "female, accompanied by mum," with a head injury again listed. The document said the patient attended the emergency room at 8:11 p.m. on August 23, 2025. This would be approximately 31 minutes following the incident described by police. The patient was discharged at 9:44 p.m.

"The hospital document was sent to Elaine Thomson, Lola and Ruby's mother, which was sent to [Mayah's mother], who sent it to me," Aesthetica explained to Blaze News.

The family has declined to speak publicly, out of fear of public backlash and for their own safety, according to Aesthetica. However, the reporter told Blaze News that the family is "relieved that their names have finally been cleared."

He added, "They are thankful that everyone now knows the truth and that they've been telling the truth the entire time."

The fundraiser has garnered approximately $120,000 at the time of this writing.

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