A teenage girl is among nine people to have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a race hate attack on a 17-year-old asylum seeker. The local MP has described the attackers as scum.

The 17-year-old victim, a Kurdish Iranian, was waiting at a bus stop with two friends outside The Goat pub in Croydon, south-east London, when the group approached them.

After discovering he was an asylum seeker they chased him and launched a vicious assault, repeatedly kicking him on the floor and aiming blows to his head on Friday night.