Cruel pair humiliated grandmother by pulling her wig off in Bullring Centre.
Two sisters assaulted a grandmother by pulling her wig off in the Birmingham Bullring shopping centre.
The city’s crown court heard that there was a “history of bad blood” between the victim and sisters 29-year-old Ferzana Kosser and Zehra Bibi, 27.
37-year-old Gullmena Begum, who has suffered from alopecia for ten years, told the court that Ms Kosser was holding a baby when she pulled her hairpiece off.
“Ferzana said she was going to sort me out,” Mrs Begum said. “She grabbed at my hair.
“She wouldn’t let go but I kept hanging onto it.
“She pulled it off – she just kept yanking at it. I was in shock.
“She had a baby but she wasn’t bothered.
“She had my hair in her hand and was laughing. I felt humiliated. It’s totally changed me as a person.
“Other than close family, nobody’s really seen me without my hairpiece.”
Mrs Begum was approached by Ms Kosser’s sister Zehra Bibi when she was on her way out of the shopping centre at 10.30am on 27 September last year, prosecutor Andrew Cramp said.
A pregnant woman, who was with the victim, was poked in the stomach when she tried to film the incident.
She was examined at a hospital and found not to be harmed or injured.
Ms Kosser, of Perrywood Road, Great Barr and Bibi, of Duddeston Manor Road, Nechella, have both denied the charges.
Kosser, 29, of Perrywood Road, Great Barr, and Bibi, 27, of Duddeston Manor Road, Nechells, have each denied a charge of assault by beating.
