THE teen who allegedly "waterboarded" a Syrian refugee has been forced to flee his home after being targeted by a gang of vigilantes, The Sun Online can reveal today.

It is understood cops removed the lad’s family from their Huddersfield house under the cover of darkness after a gang of vigilantes turned up and hurled a barrage of abuse.

7 Shocking footage was shown on Good Morning Britain today

It comes as West Yorkshire Police confirmed today the 16-year-old boy is set to be charged with assault over the incident.

A spokesman said: "A 16-year-old youth has been interviewed and reported for summons, for an offence of assault. He will appear at Youth Court in due course."

The alleged attacker has been inundated with death threats on social media after disturbing footage of a 15-year-old boy being assaulted was shared tens of thousands of times online.

In one Facebook post a man threatens to stab him, saying: "I'll be there tomorrow with a knife, ready to stab the c***."

The clip shows the victim with his arm in a cast being dragged to the floor by his neck as his attacker says "I'll drown you" on a school playing field.

7 The youth appears to hold down his victim on school playing fields

7 The teen pours a drink over the face of the Syrian boy during the attack

The teen then pours a bottle of water in his face while others watch and cheer.

Last night, neighbours reported hearing swearing, shouting and threats being directed towards the teen's house.

There was no answer at the property today and the curtains remained drawn. A police car was also parked outside.

One neighbour claimed the family - a mum, a son and two young girls - had been forced out in the middle of the night.

She told The Sun Online: “The boy’s family were moved out last night for their own protection.

“People were pulling up in their cars in the early hours and shouting threats and all kinds of abuse.

“It was disgusting.”

West Yorkshire Police confirmed it had put safeguarding measures in place after groups of men were seen driving up and down the family’s street. But cops refused to confirm whether the family had been taken to a safe house.

7 The lad tried to wriggle free during the 'waterboarding'

7 The victim eventually walks away from the group of bullying school children alone

7 The alleged bully has been inundated with threats on Facebook

Neighbour Ashleigh Jay, 27, said police had been stationed outside the property from about 10pm yesterday and she’d also heard shouting in the street.

She said: “I saw at least two or three police cars and four police.

“I heard a lot of cars pulling up in the road until really late, after 1am.

“There was shouting and swearing and it’s been really worrying what’s going on to be honest.”

She has two children at the school and was first shown the video by her nine-year-old son.

“He got home from school and said, ‘Mum look at this.’

“It was pretty shocking.”

She said that her two children had been the victim of bullying but the school didn’t treat the issue seriously enough.

“They just think it’s kids being kids,” she added.

This morning the victim of the attack was revealed to be a refugee who had fled the war torn city of Homs in Syria, with his family in 2010.

7 A Go Fund Me page has raised more than £50k for the boy and his family

The harrowing incident took place on secondary school playing fields on October 25.

We pledged to not show videos of children being bullied in our Block The Bullying Campaign.

But The Sun Online have decided to share this footage to publicise the police probe into the disturbing attack.

A GoFundMe page has been set up for the lad's family with over £50,000 raised in less than 24 hours - after footage off the attack went viral last night.

The alleged bully's social media, which shows his support for far right group Britain First, was also swamped with a deluge of threats and messages condemning his actions.

This morning it emerged that the boy's sister had also fallen victim to abuse at a school in Huddersfield.

A statement on behalf of the family told how both siblings had been targeted and the lad had suffered a broken arm after being attacked by pupils.

It said: "Last month he was set upon and assaulted so severely by four of the students in the school that his arm was fractured.

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“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 who this time strangled and waterboarded him whilst video recording the incident and sharing the same to add to and publicise his humiliation."

The family statement added: "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".

The statement also revealed how the boy's family settled in the UK after his relatives were tortured and murdered by the Assad regime.

They first fled to Lebanon and were later given safe passage to Britain by the United Nations.

​Piers Morgan condemns the Huddersfield school boy bully who assaulted a ​Syrian child refugee in social media video

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