Video captured a woman shouting ‘God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve’ (Picture: @YusufJP_)

A woman has been charged with a hate crime after she allegedly yelled abuse at gay people during a Pride march.

Jamila Choudhury, from Walthamstow, east London, is accused of haranguing participants as they passed her during the event in London on July 27.

Video circulated showing a woman in a niqab yelling ‘God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve’ at people as they passed her on Hoe Street, Walthamshow.

She continued: ‘Shame on you, shame on all of you. Shame on you, you despicable people. Shame on you, you shameless people.’


Choudhury was charged on September 5.

She is due to appear on bail at Thames Magistrates’ Court on Thursday October 3.

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A woman has been charged with a hate crime after she allegedly yelled abuse at gay people during a Pride march (Picture: @YusufJP_)

A woman filmed shouted ‘Shame on you, shame on all of you. Shame on you, you despicable people’ (Picture: @YusufJP_)

In a statement at the time, the Waltham Forest Pride organising committee wrote: ‘This morning we were made aware of a video showing an individual shouting homophobic abuse at some in the parade.



‘The police are looking into this as a potential hate crime and while we condemn all homophobic abuse, we also condemn outright and unequivocally all forms of hatred and abuse, including Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, and want to make it absolutely clear that this was one, lone individual and in no way do that person’s views represent the views of any section of the local community.’

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