A poppy seller has said he was punched as he left Edinburgh Waverley station over the weekend as pro-Palestine protesters staged a huge sit-in.
Jim Henderson, 78, was selling poppies in the station when he decided to leave because of the large crowds.Mr Henderson, who served with the army in Northern Ireland, said he was attacked while leaving."I was getting shoved backwards, in danger of falling, and one of them stood on my foot and split my toe," he told Mail Online. "So I thought I had got to get the money out of here. "So I went down, and as I bent down someone punched me in the back.
And over the weekend, poppy sellers at Charing Cross station looked helpless as they were surrounded by protesters chanting 'Free Palestine'. The picture of the London volunteers went viral online, with Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer slamming the protesters for 'intimidating' the elderly trio. "If anyone knows these poppy sellers please DM me. I will try and rattle a tin with them tomorrow," Mr Mercer said.
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