So, all over the trams on the Eccles line there are signs promising increased police patrols and security. I have yet to see a single officer unaccompanied by a fare inspector.
I guess revenue is more important than violent crime?
A mother-of-two has told how she "thought she was going to die" after she was kicked unconscious by a gang of youths on her tram journey home.
Julie Pickford, 47, had a fractured eye socket and severe cuts and bruises after being beaten by a gang of teenagers on the tram from Manchester.
Mrs Pickford said a youth was throwing popcorn at her face and when she asked him to stop, she was attacked.
A 15-year-old girl has been arrested and released on bail, police said.
She boarded the Metrolink tram at Timperley and was travelling home after a night out.
She was punched in the face and fell to the floor where she was then beaten by others in the gang.
She added: "The police admitted to me that there had been trouble all night from these youths.
"Why did the police let the youths on knowing that there would be trouble? They (the police) should have been on the tram."
Pick pockets and now violence. Awful.
Woman 'feared gang-attack death'
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