News site Somerset Live reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused a Turkish national in Yeovil before pinning him down and biting his nose. Dale Ashford, 32, was out of prison on license when the incident happened on 6 June. He was refused entry at a JD Wetherspoon in Yeovil town...
The Daily Mail reports on an alleged early morning attack on a Muslim woman as she walked along Oxford Street, in central London, earlier this month. The paper notes details from the incident which happened at around 8.15am on 4 October. The victim, a Muslim woman in her 40s, was walking along the...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the sentencing of a man who verbally abused a Muslim teenager before driving his car toward the youngster forcing him to take refuge behind a wall. Lee Blenkin, 49, appeared before Kirklees magistrates’ court last week in connection with the incident on...
The Blackpool Gazette reports on a police investigation launched by Lancashire police following a spate of “racially-aggravated symbols and posters” being found on buildings and stuck to lamp-posts in the Lytham Road area of the town. Swastikas daubed on buildings and stickers featuring...
The Hull Daily Mail reports on the trial of a man who admitted racially aggravated harassment, threatening behaviour and assault of a police officer following an incident at Pearson Park in the city. Hull magistrates’ court heard police officers were called to Pearson Park in response to a call...
A local Norfolk newspaper, Lynn News, covers the ordeal of a Muslim taxi driver who alleges he was racially abused at Norfolk railway station on Sunday afternoon, 25 September. Tarek Salah-Eddin spoke to the paper about the incident, part of which he recorded on his mobile phone. Mr Salah-Eddin,...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the court appearance of a man who racially abused a Muslim ticket inspector at Blackburn railway station after being told he would need to go through ticket inspection. Peter Eccles, 56, has made the same commuter journey from Blackburn to Halifax for 30 years...
STV News and The Herald report on the release of CCTV images of a man sought by Police Scotland in connection with a report of an alleged religiously aggravated incident at the Thistles shopping centre in Stirling earlier this year. The news report states the victim, a 27 year old woman, was...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports on the community sentence passed on a man whose rant against a pair of Muslim students on an Exeter street in May went viral after it was posted online. Stephen Scatcherd, 59, admitted using threatening and abusive language and pleaded guilty to a racially...
The Times yesterday published yet another article trailing the Louise Casey review report with a column by Rachel Sylvester claiming the “hard left are sabotaging anti-extremism plans.” Sylvester opens with the case of a Muslim pupil who was supposedly marked out for the Channel intervention...
