The Bristol Post and BBC News report on four street preachers who were arrested on suspicion of public order offences with a street sermon allegedly referring to minorities in disparaging terms. The local paper reports on the four people, believed to be from US based group Cross Encounters...
The Daily Record reports on the delay in the sentencing of a woman who racially abused a Muslim police officer and caused extensive damage to a taxi. Carolann Chisholm, 37, pleaded guilty to three charges for racially aggravated threatening and abusive behaviour likely to cause fear and alarm,...
The London Evening Standard reports on envelopes containing “white powder” which have been sent to mosques in Leyton, Tottenham and Finsbury Park. Envelopes containing the substance has the words “P*** filth” written on them and one bore an image of a mosque with a line...
The Northern Ireland Newsletter newspaper reports on the community sentence handed to a man found guilty of racially abusing two Muslim men in an attack at their home in Belfast in 2014. Mohammed Asif Khattak and a friend were verbally abused and assaulted when a group of people gathered outside...
Local paper, Pendle Today, reports on the trial of a man who attacked a Muslim male as he left his workplace in Nelson, Lancashire in the early hours on 21 February. Calling Thomas, 24, was “groggy” from drink when he set upon Zeshan Elahi as he left work. Burnley Magistrates’...
The Essex Chronicle reports on the cut in the prison sentence of a woman who pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated public order offence after she launched a “torrent of abuse” at a medic. Nicola Meechan, 37, was sentenced to four months’ in prison at Chelmsford Crown Court in...
The Northern Echo, Sunderland Echo, Hartlepool Mail and BBC News report on charges brought against a man suspected of a religiously aggravated assault after a Muslim woman had her face veil ripped from her face as she shopped at the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland. The newspapers...
The Express and Star relates the temporary suspension of a cab driver’s license pending an investigation into an alleged hate crime offence in Wolverhampton. The local paper notes the observations of one of the alleged victims who contacted the paper to describe events that happened outside the...
The Littlehampton Gazette reports on the motion to be submitted to Adur District Council by a Muslim councillor after he was subjected to racial abuse in the weeks leading up to the EU referendum. Cllr Sami Zeglam, 24, said that he received abuse on Twitter and in direct exchanges with instances...
The Yorkshire Post reports on an alleged incident of racist abuse against Muslim councillor Nadeem Ahmed, leader of the Conservative group on Wakefield Council. The local paper reports Cllr Ahmed claims he was recently abused on two separate occasions, when he “was out running in his Wakefield...
