A prominent Donald Trump supporter and PR executive has been charged with assault after an alleged racist incident at Bond Street Underground station in central London.
British Transport Police said a woman reported she was racially abused and had her hair grabbed as she entered the station with her sister and two young children at 19:30 BST on 11 October.
US national Melissa Rein Lively, 40 – a “Maga” (make America great again) influencer – has been charged with assault by beating. Her partner, German national Philipp Ostermann, 37, has been charged with three public order offences, two of them racially aggravated.
The pair are due before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 19 May.
