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A YOUNG mum had the Mother's Day from hell when a racist attack left her face too badly scratched and bruised for her to leave the house.
Ann-Marie Gordon, 27, had been in Clapham celebrating a friend's birthday when she was attacked and racially abused.
She and a friend had left The White House bar in the early hours of Sunday and were walking down nearby St Alphonsus Road when a young, white man shouted at her from the other side of the road.
Hairdresser Ms Gordon said: "This man started shouting stuff. He said, 'You black bitch'. I confronted him and he said, 'You better f**k off before I get my sister'."
Two women then arrived and Ms Gordon says she was pushed to the floor, beaten and scratched on her face.
The mum-of-one said: "My face is scratched to pieces. It's like a wild animal did it. I haven't been able to leave the house."
Ms Gordon was unable to meet her mum and dad for a Mother's Day meal in a restaurant later that day. She was treated at Mayday Hospital in Croydon on Monday.
"My three-year-old son Daejon was really upset," Ms Gordon said. He said, 'What happened to your face,Mummy?'. I had to explain it to him and he's handled it very well.
"You just don't expect something like that in Clapham, everyone has said so." Her mobile phone was also stolen during the assault.
Ms Gordon, who works at Willie Smarts hairdressing salon in The Pavement, Clapham, and lives in West Croydon, is hoping to return to work on Tuesday.
Police are treating the incident as racially motivated. No arrests have been made.
The suspects are a man and two women, aged from their late teens to mid-20s. Call Lambeth police's community safety unit on 020 8721 3644 with information.
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