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The tirade was unrelenting, misogynist, sexist, racist, and it sent a man to jail.
The tirade was unrelenting, misogynist, sexist, racist, and it sent a man to jail.
As French tourist Fanny Desaintjores sat on a Melbourne bus singing with her friends in her native tongue in November 2012, David Robert Mathew Graham told her to "speak English or die" before unleashing a frightening, expletive-filled rant.
He threatened to cut Ms Desaintjores' breasts off with a filleting knife, telling her he was a chef and he knew what he was doing.
Graham also delivered a series of sexually degrading comments to her.
Hayden Stirling Stewart, 26, joined in the attack, and also threatened to cut the French woman.
In a different age, authorities might never have worked out who was behind the tirade, but the attack was captured on a mobile phone camera and went viral, and more than 4.7 million people viewed it across the world.
Graham, 37, who pleaded guilty to making a threat to inflict serious injury and behaving in an insulting manner in public, was jailed on Thursday for 21 days and placed on a 15-month community corrections order.
Link to article: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/03/20/man-jailed-racist-bus-tirade-melbourne
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