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Gardaí investigate racist attack complaint in Drogheda

A HSE-recruited doctor from Pakistan filed a garda complaint claiming he was assaulted and racially abused at a nightclub.

GARDAÍ ARE INVESTIGATING an alleged racist assault in a nightclub in Drogheda on Monday night.

A complaint was filed by a Pakistani man who was recruited by the HSE as a doctor last year, according to the Irish Times.

He told the paper that he was assaulted by a woman who also racially abused him at Storm nightclub and that he later filed a garda complaint.

Gardaí are appealing to anyone who was in the club that night and may have any information about the incident to contact them at Drogheda Garda Station on 041 987 4200.

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