Actress who won Bafta for portrayal of young offender drunkenly assaulted and racially abused taxi driver
A Bafta-winning actress lauded for her portrayal of a young offender was herself sentenced to community service yesterday for a drunken racial assault on an Asian taxi driver.
Lauren Socha, 21, who played foul-mouthed Kelly Bailey in the Channel 4 show Misfits, admitted she hit Sarkander Iqbal in the face while screaming racist abuse after a nine-hour wine and lager binge in October.
She was handed a four-month suspended jail sentence and will have to do 80 hours’ unpaid work – a similar sentence to the one her character faced in Misfits.
After yesterday’s hearing, Mr Iqbal described the attack in which Socha called him a ‘Paki’ and threatened: ‘You don’t know who I am.’
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I liked her in Misfits but felt the last series was much poorer than the first two. Ironic that her Misfits 'youth offending chav' character is far more likeable than the real life person.
Can't imagine this will go down very well at C4/E4, with one of the actresses in their top critically acclaimed multicultural youth dramas is a foul mouthed, scummy racist.