Police are investigating an alleged hate crime after a stranger coughed in a blind woman’s face while she was out for a walk.

The woman, in her 50s, was walking on Saturday evening with her guide dog on Halifax Road in the town of Melksham on the River Avon, Wiltshire Police has said.

Her dog alerted her to someone close by, and when she shouted out for them to keep back – in order to maintain social distancing rules during the coronavirus lockdown – the person approached her and coughed in her face.

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