The camera was shooting, hundreds of migrants broke through the police cordon, one of them rushed to me and I was scared.

She acted in self-defence. Sure the man with his child in his arms was hurrying past. He was not rushing at her. But he might have attacked her – just as the other hundreds of migrants might have attacked her after she tripped the man up, causing him to fall atop the child.

Then something snapped in me … I just thought that I was attacked and I have to protect myself. It’s hard to make good decisions at a time when people are in a panic.

Petra is accepting her guilt at a low level. Her survival instinctive took over. As she stuck out her leg to send a man flying to the earth, she was panicking.

I’m not a heartless, racist children kicking camerawoman.

And now the outright denial. She tells us what she is not. She tells us that you are worse.

I do not deserve it nor the political witch hunts against me, nor the smear, the many death threats.

The death threats are pathetic. But those are words – it’s not like anyone tried to deck you, Petra. But the sack – yep, you deserved it. Your actions were wholly repugnant. You are a terrible journalist, unable to simply show and tell, you take sides. Of course, other journalists also reveal bias. The BBC’s correspondent Orla Guerin and pretty much any reporter on Channel 4 News are always on the side of the angels.

Petra goes on.

I’m just a woman…

And with that she’s back to the sympathetic back story.

…since then, an unemployed mother of small children, who brought a panic situation, a bad decision. I am truly sorry.

Of course you are. You got caught out, the camerawoman exposed when her actions were caught on camera.

If anyone sees sweet Petra dashing to the job centre, a young child swaddled in her loving arms, try not to panic and fear for your life and in doing so stick out a leg and send her smashing into the pavement. Because if you do, you run the risk of looking like an utter bastard.