kilroysilk attacked with slurry euro mp robert kilroysilk has had a bucket of farm slurry thrown over him by a protester in manchester the uk independence party member was arriving for a bbc radio show when the attacker emerged from behind a bush fellow guest ruth kelly mp was also hit by the slurry mr kilroysilk said the man who later disappeared claimed he was doing it in the name of islam in january mr kilroysilk quit his bbc one show for remarks he made about arabs who he called suicide bombers mr kilroysilk had already been taken off air by bbc bosses for the comments in which he also described arabs as limbamputators women repressors the remarks prompted outrage among muslim groups the slurry attack took place on friday as mr kilroysilk and ms kelly a cabinet office minister and bolton west mp arrived at manchester high school for girls for the recording of bbc radio 4 s any questions the police were called but the attacker had disappeared by the time officers arrived they are treating the incident as assault the programme s host jonathan dimbleby later told the audience the mep had been covered from head to toe mr kilroysilk was still able appear to appear on the show after being loaned a change of clothes he told reporters he was very angry and planned to press charges if his attacker was caught he said the man shouted you ve offended my religion i m doing this in the name of islam as i started to turn round a guy tipped a bucket of farmyard muck over me and then threw the rest of it over me and the car mr kilroysilk said i was totally covered it was all through my clothes and it stank to high heaven it went all inside the car and splattered ruth kelly a bbc spokesman said he took his seat as jonathan dimbleby was introducing the show fortunately someone at the school had a change of clothes to let him have greater manchester police said people near mr kilroysilk had also been hit by the waste officers took statements at the scene but no arrests have been made police say the suspect ran off after towards wilmslow road after committing the offence but is believed to have been driving a red vauxhall corsa earlier the suspect is described as white aged 30 to 40 with a ginger beard police want to hear from anyone who has any information mr kilroysilk an mep for the east midlands resigned the uk independence party whip in the european parliament in october after criticising ukip and stating his ambition to be leader however he remains a member of the party he said on friday he hoped to be elected party leader before christmas i think that is sufficient time for us to put in process what is necessary in time for us to fight and have a significant impact upon