Appeal to identify victims of Southampton public order offences

We are appealing for witnesses to identify victims of public order offences on Friday (10 March) near Southampton railway station.

At 4pm, near the taxi rank in Southbrook Road, a man was reportedly shouting racist and misogynistic language at a group consisting of a Black teenage boy and two White teenage girls.

The group went into the Costa coffee shop nearby and then to the Co-Op store on the corner of Southbrook Road and Blechynden Terrace before leaving the area.

Afterwards, we were called by a member of the public who witnessed the incident and we arrested a 48-year-old man at the scene on suspicion of racially-aggravated threatening, abusive and insulting words and behaviour causing harassment, alarm or distress. He was bailed while enquiries continue.

Since the incident was reported to us, officers have followed up lines of enquiry but now we are turning to the public for your help.

Are you the victims of this incident? Do you know who is?

Did you witness what happened or have mobile phone footage showing the incident?

Please get in touch by calling us on 101 or reporting online via our website (https://www.hampshire.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/), quoting 44230097427.