The local newspaper, York Press, reports on the acquittal of a man accused of racially aggravated threatening behaviour after a Muslim taxi driver claimed he was called a “Muslim suicide bomber” by a passenger riding in his taxi last November. Paul Leadley and his friend, Craig King,...
The Belfast Telegraph reports on a hate crime incident in Dungannon in County Tyrone where vandals daubed the words “Muslim scum” on an uninhabited house in Oak Road. The graffiti appeared on the front of the house sometime between Tuesday evening(2 May) and Wednesday morning (4...
The Hull Daily Mail reports on the trial of three young men who threatened a Muslim shop owner with a knife and a plank of wood after he confronted them at his store in Spring Bank, west Hull. Hussein Ali, the owner of Bekhal, a 24-hour grocery store was threatened with a knife and racially...
A story that you may have missed this weekend but which is certainly noteworthy. The Telegraph Media Group have published an apology to Mr Mujibul Islam for articles published by Sunday Telegraph journalist, Andrew Gilligan last year, accusing Mr Islam of being “a willing beneficiary of...
The Northern Echo reports on the trial of a man and a woman accused of violent assault and racial abuse of a pizza shop owner in Ferryhill, County Durham. The trial at Teesside Crown Court this week relates to an incident involving victim Muhammad Saeed Ahkter on 16 October 2015. David Lowes and...
The Daily Mail reports on the court appearance of a woman accused of abusing a Muslim store manager at a central London shop telling her “I’ll slap that hijab off your face.” Ellie Simpson, 21, appeared before Westminster Magistrates Court on one charge of using threatening or...
The Daily Record and Mirror report on CCTV footage allegedly showing a man engage in anti-Muslim abuse and threatening behaviour on a two year old Pakistani burns victim in Glasgow. Toddler orphan, Muhammad Sudais, moved to Glasgow in 2014 after an explosion at his home in Pakistan killed...
Almost a year on from Britain First initiating a nation-wide “anti-halal operation”, starting with a restaurant in Dartford last June, the Metro and Independent report on the far right group posting a video on their Facebook page on their “invasion” of a halal slaughterhouse in...
The Portsmouth News reports that two men arrested on suspicion of racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment or distress, after a pig’s head bearing a swastika was found at the Madani Academy, have been re-bailed. A pig’s head with a swastika drawn on it and the word...
The Shields Gazette reports on a suspected hate crime at an Asda supermarket on Coronation Street in South Shields at 12pm on Saturday, April 2. The local paper reported on the arrest of a 40 year old man on suspicion of racial/religious aggravated assault after police were called to an incident...
