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Kirsty Gallacher has revealed she was “kicked like a football” by a masked thug in a vile and unprovoked attack in central London. The former Sky Sports presenter, 49, said she had been walking back to her car in the dark after finishing work around 7pm on Tuesday. In a post on Instagram, Gold Radio host Gallacher added that she has the bruises to “prove” what happened. She said: “Last night I was physically assaulted in the streets of central London walking from work to my car, the walk I do most nights. The streets are well lit. There were people around. “I was walking on the pavement, and I noticed this guy, all in black, covered up, actually, just walking at me. And I’m always vigilant. And he was just walking towards me, and so I moved out of the way, and then he brushed past me. “He turned around, and he kicked me like he was kicking a football. He kicked me in the middle of a street at about seven o’clock last night, in front of people, and I turned around and he scarpered.” She added: “I’m still shocked now, and I have the bruises to prove I’m afraid. “I can’t quite believe what happened. I was not being provocative in any way. I was just going about my business as you do. I was just walking to my car to go back home to my family.” Gallacher said she found it “hugely disappointing” as a nearby security guard was absolutely useless and “didn’t do anything”. However, she did thank a woman passer-by who came forward to help. She told her ** followers: “I luckily had some witnesses, some lovely girls saw it and came to my aid. There was a security guard on a door nearby who was absolutely useless and didn’t do anything, which was hugely disappointing, and I just there, and I couldn’t actually believe that someone, a stranger, has just decided, for whatever reason, whether he’s a got a problem with women, whether he’s just an opportunist. “He decided he did not like me, and he just thought, Now, give you the boot. And that is not okay. It’s not okay, it’s not okay.” Gallacher decided to speak out because she believes such violence is becoming common place in London. It comes as the Standard revealed the capital’s robbery hotspots in a new interactive map of Metropolitan Police data. Latest figures published by the Office for National Statistics show the West End saw around 10 per day, many carried out by violent phone and luxury watch rippers on mopeds. Dramatic footage showed American events company owner J. Riccardo Benavides being ambushed for his luxury watch by two of three robbers as he emerges from a black London taxi outside Cavalry & Guards Club on Piccadilly at 3.30am on Saturday, October 18. Other victims include TV personality Selina Scott, who was viciously attacked and robbed by a gang near a Waterstones bookshop in Piccadilly in June. Algerian illegal migrant Ahmed Djidi, 26, targeted Tim Hortons boss Axel Schwan for his £65,000 Patek Philippe watch in Bond Street on June 30 of last year.
