Manpreet Mellhi found a bag of pork scratchings in her shopping (Picture: SWNS)

A BBC reporter has hit out at racists who targeted her in a supermarket – by hiding pork scratchings in her basket.

Manpreet Mellhi, 32, was in Sainbsury’s when she saw two people near her laughing at her.

She later looked down into her basket and found two packets of pork scratchings – apparently placed there in an anti-Muslim attack.

Muslims traditionally don’t eat pork because it is forbidden as part of the Islamic religion.


The BBC Radio Gloucestershire reporter is actually Sikh with her father and maternal grandparents coming from India and her mother from Kenya.

To person who dropped two bags of pork scratchings into my basket in Sainsbury's: your pitiful Saturday activity backfired. I'm not Muslim. — Manpreet Mellhi (@ManpreetMellhi) November 12, 2016

She later said the ‘bizarre’ incident had offended her and added: ‘It shocked me a bit.



‘I think it was deliberate, though I couldn’t say 100 per cent, but nothing about it was a normal situation.

‘Did people want to offend me? I don’t know. Did they think it was funny? Probably.

‘Had I been a Muslim or had it happened to a Muslim then I would have found it more offensive than I did.

‘It’s sad for someone to go into a supermarket on a Saturday and mock somebody.’