Our Wankers this week are a group of residents in Leatherhead.
This report from Help for Heroes explains why …
Swimmers throw abuse at injured servicemen in pool
Injured soldiers were subjected to a humiliating encounter when they were jeered at a public swimming pool.
Servicemen from Headley Court rehabilitation centre near Leatherhead were about to begin their weekly swim at Leatherhead Leisure Centre, which helps with their therapy, when they were verbally abused by a group of regular swimmers. One woman, believed to be in her 30s, was so incensed that the soldiers - many of them amputees having returned from conflicts in the Middle East and Asia - were using the pool that she told them that they did not deserve to be there.
It is alleged that she told the men that she pays to swim there and they do not. According to witnesses she was so abusive that the soldiers' instructor pulled the groups out of the water to avoid further embarrassment.
Charles Murrin, of Friars Orchard, Fetcham, who witnessed the incident, said: "I was so cross and I could not believe what she was saying. "The lane was roped off which they do every week and people can swim in there up until 11am and then the soldiers go in. She said the men do not deserve to be in there and that she pays money to come in the pool and they don't." The partially sighted 79-year-old, who was in the Royal Navy man and served in the Korean war, added: "I just cannot believe it happened and that people are like this. I spoke to the instructor in the changing room afterwards and he was livid.
Linda Sinclair, of Thossnroft Drive, Leatherhead, also witnessed the incident. She said "I was coming out of the pool as the people started to complain and I was thinking how dreadful it was. It was a few people that were complaining and it made me cross and it was not nice for those soldiers."
There were two groups of soldiers waiting to use the pool but following the tirade of abuse their instructor ordered them to leave.
The incident comes just weeks after a national appeal was launched to raise £5 million for Headley Court to build a new full-size rehabilitation pool with equipment in their gym. The centre treats 180 injured servicemen who have to make the half-hour trip to Leatherhead to use the pool for vital cardiovascular exercise.
It's a pity these graceless swine can remain anonymous. If we or any of our contacts are able to put names to them, we'll publish them.
Bastards.
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