Sony Steps Up to Help London Boy Whose PSP Was Stolen When He Was Mugged

Sony is no stranger to the riots that have taken place in London. The company just experienced first hand, the destructive nature of the mobs who turned their attention to Sony’s optical disc warehouse and burned it to the ground. Luckily, no employees were directly affected (other then not having a place to work now) and no one was injured during the fire. Ashraf Haziq, a Sony fan and PSP owner was not so lucky though. In an unrelated incident, looters in the streets of London turned their attention to Haziq, a 20 year old Malaysian student. After mugging Haziq, which caused a broken jaw for the unfortunate boy, a man reaches into his backpack and takes what he could grab which happened to be a PSP. All of this can be seen in the video below.

Now, SCEE marketing director Alan Duncan wants to do something nice for the boy and wants to “give Ashraf a new PSP and games.” The only thing standing between this good will gesture is if Sony can be put in touch with the hospital that Haziq is being treated at. If we can find out how to get it to him we’ll replace the PSP, added a SCE UK rep. According to VG247, Namco Bandai also wants to support SCEE’s good will gesture by giving the young boy some games.

Video can be found after the jump.