SHOCKING CCTV footage shows a shopkeeper being attacked with crowbars and run over by a car after trying to defend a teenage boy from a vicious gang attack, sister paper The Stroud News & Journal reports.

Amo Singh, 33, was brutally assaulted when he tried to defend a Polish boy who was being attacked by teenagers outside his shop, Premier Stores in Queen’s Drive, Cashes Green, Stroud, at around 10pm on Sunday.

He and his wife Sandy had seen six boys and two girls – some of whom were armed with crowbars and baseball bats – arrive in two cars and begin attacking the 15-year-old Polish boy, who was with his girlfriend.

Amo grabbed a baseball bat to defend himself and went outside to try to protect the boy, but the gang then turned on him, raining down punches and blows with crowbars and baseball bats.

One of them then drove a car at Amo, sending him flying into the air. Others then punched and kicked him while he lay on the ground, before the driver reversed over him. The attackers then fled in the two cars.

Sandy called the assault on her husband an “attempted murder” and said she had shared the CCTV footage in the hope of helping to catch the attackers.

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