The South Wales Evening Post reports on the trial of a pensioner who racially abused a Polish Muslim convert, telling her to “go back to your own country” and shouted at her to remove her niqab. Bert Fahy, 75, appeared before Swansea Magistrates’ court in connection with the...
The Sunday Telegraph front page article on 1 January claimed that the number of extremists abusing the charity sector are at an all-time high. It claimed the number of times the Charity Commission has raised concerns about links between charities and extremism with police and other agencies has...
On 27 December, three Muslim women confronted a man who allegedly called them “f***ing p***s” in a busy shopping centre in Hull. Footage from the incident filmed on a mobile phone was later posted on YouTube by one of the victims and was posted on the Mail Online website last week. It shows the...
The Plymouth Herald reports on the suspended sentence handed to a former soldier with mental health problems who sent bomb threats to mosques and Muslims in the UK. Jamie Bond, 43, sent letters in red ink to three mosques in Rotherham in Yorkshire, Bristol and Cardiff and to two men in...
The Express and Star reported last week on the ruling handed down by the Independent Regulatory Commission investigating an “aggravated breach” of the Football Association Handbook by Newcastle United player Jonjo Shelvey, who was accused of shouting racist slurs against...
The Middlewich Guardian reports on the fine and curfew order imposed on a man who launched a “tirade of racist abuse” at an Indian restaurant worker who asked him to move his car from disabled parking bays outside the restaurant. Oliver Callow, 25, visited an Indian restaurant in...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the successful sentence appeal of a young man who aged 17 was sentenced for the murder of Pakistani taxi driver Mohammed Parvaiz. Mr Parvaiz was killed in Huddersfield in July 2006 by four teenagers, Graeme Slavin, 17, Steven Utley, 17, Christopher Murphy, 18,...
The Falkirk Herald reports on a racist incident at a Turkish takeaway where a customer racially abused staff after being refused a kebab when he failed to pay for his order. Andrew Fay, 47, appeared before Falkirk Sheriff Court last Thursday (22 December), in connection with the incident at Hot...
The Cumbernauld News reports on a motion proposed by two local councillors at North Lanarkshire Council following an incident of anti-Muslim graffiti at the Islamic Education Trust earlier this month. Independent councillor Alan O’Brien raised the emergency motion at a meeting of the local...
The Daily Mail reports on a suspected racist incident on board the 105 bus service from Southall to Heathrow where a passenger was allegedly ordered off a bus because the driver took objection to his listening to “music” though he was actually listening to recitation of the Qur’an. Footage...
