A Sri Lankan architecture student in her first week of university in Launceston was doused in Coca-Cola and humiliated in front of her terrified parents on Tuesday night.
Seventeen-year-old Kaushalya Ilangkovan, her mother Geetha Ilangkovan and father Ilangkovan Arunasalam were targeted by two women at the St John Street bus stop about 6.55pm, in what would become an hour-long ordeal.
The unrelenting attack saw the women hurl abuse at the family, before one threw a cardboard box over Geetha’s head and shoulders and then over Kaushalya’s.
When one of the women attempted to pour Coke on Geetha, Kaushalya leapt to her mother’s defence …
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