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...
Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reports on a hospital order imposed on a woman who attacked care home staff, including racially abusing one of them. Sandra Williams, 51, stood trial at Bradford Crown Court in relation to incidents occurring in December 2015 and January 2016. Ms Williams, who...
By enhancing Muslim engagement in the PCC elections and raising awareness and expectations about policy issues that impact on British Muslims, we hope perceptions of and confidence in the police will improve further still and, in turn, have an impact on increasing diversity in the police. This...
The Croydon Guardian reports on the sentencing of two women who were found guilty of an attack on a Kosovan woman in a Lidl car park. Natalie Sharp and Christine Bicknell were convicted at Croydon Crown Court of racially aggravated assault and racially aggravated harassment, respectively, last...
Scottish paper, the Press and Journal, reports on the conviction of a man for racially aggravated breach of the peace after he posted offensive comments about Muslims on a Facebook page. Liam Calder was sentenced at Inverness Sheriff Court after he reacted to a news report in the Press and...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the sentencing of a young woman who verbally abused and physically assaulted an Asian taxi driver after a night out leaving him too afraid to return to work. Haley Spink, 25, admitted to charges of racially-aggravated assault, causing a danger to road users and...
The free sheet, The Metro, reports on the sentencing of a man who daubed anti-Muslim graffiti on the hoardings of the Noor ul Islam Trust in Leyton while it was undergoing renovations. Tom Whelan, 53, was twice caught on CCTV writing the graffiti on the mosque site. Whelan wrote the messages...
In the interests of transparency and for full disclosure to the nearly 3,000 people who complained about The Sun’s front page story last November, ‘1 in 5 Brit Muslims’ sympathy for jihadis’, and The Times article on the same, we are publishing all our correspondence with...
The Mirror and Portsmouth News report on the arrest of two men in connection with a suspected hate crime at the Madani Academy Islamic School in Portsmouth in January. Staff at the school arrived on the morning of Thursday 21 January to find a pig’s head tied to the gate. The head had a...
The Croydon Advertiser, The Guardian and The Independent all report on the arrest of a man who tweeted a message about “confronting” a Muslim woman on the street in Croydon and asking her to “explain Brussels”. Her response, “nothing to do with me” was...
