A WORCESTER schoolgirl was beaten up by child racists who branded her a "nigger".

The campaign of hate against Kerry-Marie Loveridge's family started within weeks of them moving into Tolladine around eight months ago, they claim.

Her mother, Sharron, has a black partner, Mansour Almarzouq, who is bombarded with racial taunts every time he leaves the house.

Only last night, yobs surrounded their Tolladine Road home, hurled stones at the window and shouted racial abuse.

Miss Loveridge is now hoping the council will find the family a new home before they are forced to flee to a refuge.

Robert Flynn, headteacher of Gorse Hill Primary School, which Kerry-Marie attends, has backed the family's bid to move by writing to council bosses about their cause.

"I was in town and my wife was at home when last night's attack happened," said Mr Almarzouq. "She called the police because she was so scared."

The couple say they are too scared to let their children play outside.

"I have got a seven-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy who have both been racially abused," said 33-year-old mother-of-five Miss Loveridge, who has reported the more severe abuse and the attack on her daughter to Worcester police.

Kerry-Marie was set upon by a group of young girls who slapped her face, pulled her hair and kicked her in the arm while chanting racist taunts, near her Tolladine Road home last month.

Unemployed Mr Almarzouq, who receives disability benefit, revealed he was bombarded with racial abuse every time he left the house.

"I was recently 35, but I'm not in the mood for celebrating," he said.

"I don't want to stay in this area. We moved from Kidderminster because of racial abuse and we wanted a new start, but this is worse.

"It's making my life a misery and because a lot of it is from children what can I do?"

Worcester City Council housing manager Iain Harkess said he knew the family wanted to move home.

"We are working with them on that," he said.

A Worcester Police spokeswoman confirmed the family had complained and said investigations were "on-going".