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Met ‘failing’ hate crime victims in the capital

The London Evening Standard discloses details from its Freedom of Information request to the Met police about hate crime in London and outcomes of police recorded offences. The paper notes the leap in police recorded racial and religious hate crime in the capital between 2011 and 2015 with...

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Teenager fined for racist abuse of Muslim footballer

The Courier reports on a fine imposed on a teenager who posted a racially abusive tweet about footballer Faissal El Bakhtaoui who plays for Dunfermline Athletic. Lewis Thow, 19, admitted sending two tweets that were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character via an...

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Former SNP councillor charged over alleged Islamophobic texts

BBC News reports that a former SNP councillor accused of sending a female Muslim colleague Islamophobic texts following the Paris attacks in November 2015 has been charged. Craig Melville, 35, was suspended from his post as aide to SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie and was placed under investigation...

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Man in court for racist tirade at Paisley convenience store

The Daily Record reports on “the latest hate crime against Scottish-Asian shop workers” with the court appearance of John Shirley, 35, on charges of racially aggravated threatening or abusive behaviour. Shirley is accused of threatening to “kill as many of these black b******s as...

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