The Hastings Observer reports that three people have been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated assault following an incident involving a Muslim woman in a headscarf. A 25 year old Muslim woman, who wears a headscarf, was confronted by three men as she walked near the Hastings Museum. The...
The Independent reports on continuing research by Dr Nabil Khattab on UK labour market outcomes for British Muslims with an article on latest findings from research presented to the British Sociological Association annual meeting this week. Dr Khattab has previously released findingsrevealing...
The Daily Express gets back on its favourite hobby horse: the burqa and niqab with an article in today’s paper showing the results of the paper’s ‘snap survey’ in Blackburn which it claims is evidence of a ‘Burka sales BOOM’. The ‘snap survey’, it...
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...
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...
BBC News reports that holiday firm Butlin’s have apologised for featuring a wrestling show that was described by one visitor as “A horrific race hate-filled ten minutes of everything wrong on racial stereotypes.” The Lincolnshire Echo reported the complaint aired by Christian...
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...
A woman who was cleared of a charge of religiously aggravated harassment after telling a woman that her dog had set upon her because it “doesn’t like Muslims” has been fined in connection with a conviction for racially aggravated harassment, according to a report in The...
The Dunfermline Press reports that sixty hate crime offences occurred in Fife in the six weeks following the Paris massacre on 13 November 2015. The figures obtained by SNP MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, Roger Mullin, under an FOI request shows there were 60 hate crimes in Fife between...
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...
