Maga influencer Melissa Rein Lively cautioned after admitting assault in London

Founder of ‘anti-woke’ PR firm to pay £910 to woman whose hair she pulled at Bond Street tube station last October A Maga influencer has admitted assaulting a woman at a London tube station during an altercation. Melissa Rein Lively, 40, the founder of the “anti-woke” America First Public Relations firm in the US, allegedly pulled a woman’s hair in a “forceful manner” at Bond Street station last October. She accepted a conditional caution over the incident, Westminster magistrates court heard on Tuesday. As part of the caution, Rein Lively admitted the conduct amounted to a criminal offence and agreed to pay £910 in compensation to the victim. A charge of assault by beating against her was subsequently withdrawn. The court heard the compensation, which is due in July, has not yet been paid. Rein Lively did not attend the hearing. Prosecutor Lyndon Harris said the incident took place on the evening of 11 October last year as two sisters walked towards the station with their children, one of whom was in a pushchair. According to the prosecution, the sisters noticed Rein Lively and a man, later identified as the German national Philipp Ostermann, ahead of them. “It appeared to one of

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