Police have launched an investigation into the distribution of abusive cards on the London Underground purporting to be from a group calling itself Overweight Haters Ltd.

A number of people have reported seeing passengers being handed the cards, said to come from an organisation that “hates and resents fat people”.

A Twitter user named Kara Florish posted a picture of one of the cards, which she said she had been given on the tube, describing it as “hateful and cowardly”.



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Another person reported seeing a young man get on a train at Oxford Circus and hand one of the printed cards to a woman, telling her: “You’re fat.” He added that the man jumped off the train after leaving the woman in tears.

The cards read “It’s really not glandular, it’s your gluttony …” before adding: “Our organisation hates and resents fat people. We object to the enormous amount of food resources you consume while half the world starves.