A girl has been charged with assault by beating and felony harm after a milkshake was thrown at Nigel Farage.
Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, will seem at Colchester Magistrates’ Court docket on 2 July following the incident at a marketing campaign occasion in Clacton, Essex on Tuesday.
A 44-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency employee has been launched and can face no additional motion.
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Clacton is the place the Reform UK chief is vying to be an MP after saying his return to frontline politics this week.
Mr Farage was doused in what gave the impression to be a McDonald’s banana milkshake as he left a Wetherspoons Moon and Starfish pub within the space at round 2pm.
He was seen with the yellow drink splattered throughout his darkish blue go well with as he boarded his marketing campaign bus.
The veteran Eurosceptic initially laughed off the incident, saying “my milkshake brings all of the folks to the rally”.
He later stated it was “fairly scary” however that was the danger that got here together with his “old-style avenue campaigning”.
Mr Farage isn’t any stranger to being pelted with meals or drink, and it isn’t even the primary time he has had a milkshake thrown at him.
Nigel Farage after he was doused in milkshake throughout a marketing campaign walkabout in Newcastle in 2019 Pic: PA
In Could 2019, Paul Crowther, from Newcastle, doused the then-Brexit Social gathering chief with a £5.25 banana and salted caramel milkshake from burger chain 5 Guys throughout a metropolis centre walkabout forward of the European elections.
He was arrested on the scene and pleaded responsible to widespread assault and felony harm, and was ordered to pay Mr Farage £350 in compensation to have his go well with cleaned after the “politically motivated assault”.
“Milkshaking” – the act of dousing public figures in milkshake – was formally recognised by Collins Dictionary the identical yr.
In 2014, Mr Farage, then chief of UKIP, had an egg thrown at him by a protester throughout a marketing campaign go to to Nottingham.
The newest incident got here simply hours after he launched his election marketing campaign surrounded by lots of of supporters.
Polling day on 4 July would be the eighth time he has tried to be an MP, having by no means beforehand succeeded.