Huddersfield keeper Jonas Lossl invites Syrian refugee schoolboy ‘waterboarded’ by bully to game in amazing gesture
HUDDERSFIELD keeper Jonas Lossl has invited the Syrian refugee at the centre of a bullying storm to be his guest at a Premier League game.
Video of the 16-year-old being 'waterboarded' by a bully at a school in the Almondbury area of the West Yorkshire town went viral when it was released and shared on Tuesday.
The horrendous images sparked outrage with support flooding in for the youngster.
And now Huddersfield's Danish keeper Lossl has made his own intervention, with a Twitter message to the teenager.
Lossl said: “I'd like to show my love to Jamal by inviting him and his family to a @htafcdotcom game as my guest.
“Can someone help me contact the right person connected with Jamal to arrange this please?”
Lossl’s comments come amid reports that West Yorkshire police have already visited the home of the boy’s alleged assailant.
The victim’s family also released a statement which said he and his siblings had all been targeted, with the eldest child suffering a broken arm after one attack.
The statement said: “Last month he was set upon and assaulted so severely by four of the students in the school that his arm was fractured.
“Having had his arm placed in a cast, he returned to school, only within days to be set upon again by the same group of boys.
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"This time [they] strangled and waterboarded him whilst video recording the incident and sharing the same to add to and publicise his humiliation."
His sister had been subjected to constant racial abuse by her own peer group since joining the school."
The spokesperson then claimed that the bullying had become so severe that the boy's sister locked herself in a school toilet "broke her spectacles" and "cut her own wrist in an attempt at suicide".