Local news site Citiblog reports on hate crime awareness materials produced by students in Luton that are to be used by Bedfordshire Police in their poster campaign encouraging victims to report hate crime. Students from Stockwood Park Academy in Luton won a Bedfordshire-wide competition held...
The Sun reports on a police appeal to trace a man who plastered “racist and anti-Semitic” stickers across London Underground stations last month. British Transport Police have released an image of the man they wish to speak to in connection with the sighting of the offensive stickers which...
The Mirror reports on the “shocking rant” by far-right activist Jack Buckby during a Channel 4 News debate about the “Alt-Right” on Wednesday, 8 February. During the discussion, Buckby pulled out a refugee application form and addressing a member of the National Union of Students’...
The West Sussex County Times reports on the court appearance of a man charged with posting comments on Facebook “intended to stir up religious hatred”. Nigel Pelham, 49, is alleged to have posted comments on the social media site calling for the introduction of a “bomb a mosque...
The Shropshire Star reports on threats received by a Muslim businessman in Telford after his shop sign was used in a video by the far right group by Britain First to claim it was “proof of Islamic extremism in Wellington”. The shop, Silicon Valley, bears a symbol on its shop front in...
STV News reports on the court appearance of a Scottish teenager who assaulted a Muslim woman at a shopping centre in Stirling, trying to rip off her headscarf. Leighton MacKenzie, 18, appeared before Stirling Sheriff Court on charges of religiously aggravated assault in connection with the...
The Evening Standard reports on a woman who was abused and called a “race traitor” as she made her way to the protest against Donald Trump in central London on Saturday 4 February. Sophia Nicolov, a 23-year-old student from London, was on a Piccadilly Line tube train with her sister Alice...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the court appearance of a man who racially abused an Asian female and her male relative and threatened to “end” them after the woman parked her car outside his house in Liversedge, Huddersfield. Steven Townsend, 59, called the woman a “dirty P***”...
BBC News, ITV News and Daily Telegraph all report on the sentencing of a solicitor who racially abused a mother and her young son as they travelled on a train from London to Glasgow last December. Sanaa Shahid and her four year old son, Zayn, were travelling home in a first class carriage on...
The Guardian and BBC News report on the court hearing of a man who admitted ripping the niqab off a Muslim woman at a shopping centre in Sunderland in July 2015. Peter Scotter, 55, shouted “you are in our country now” when he attacked his victim, who was waiting for her husband...
