Local paper, The Herald, reports on the sentencing of a 53 year old man after he was convicted of racially or religiously aggravated common assault at Banbury Magistrates’ Court this week. Andrew Lydiatt, 53, was found guilty of racially or religiously aggravated common assault on...
The Coventry Telegraph reports on the remarks by Britain’s first ethnic minority police officer on diversity in police recruitment. Former police constable Mohammed Daar joined West Midlands Police on 16 March 1966. News of his appointment was published on the front page of a number of national...
The Mirror reports on the guilty verdict reached by a jury in the trial of Natalie Sharp, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Tia Sharp, who was standing trial on charges of racially aggravated assault in connection with an incident at a Lidl supermarket on 18 April 2015. Earlier this week,...
The Lincolnshire Echo and The Lincolnite report on the launch of a police investigation after anti-Islamic posters were found at a building site where a new mosque is due to be built in the city. One of the posters bore the message “no more mosques” and appeared overnight on the gates of...
ITV News and the Bristol Post report on the court appearance of three people charged with a religiously aggravated assault offence in connection with the attack on Totterdown mosque in January 2016. Mark Bennett, 48, his wife Alison Bennett, 46, and Angelina Swailes, 31, were due to stand...
The Metro, The Mirror and The Chronicle report on the trial of a man who stabbed an Asian male in the neck with a pair of scissors in a revenge attack for ISIS beheadings claiming “God told me to do it”. The trial at Newcastle Crown Court heard that the victim, 32, had been waiting in his...
The Manchester Evening News reports on new figures released on hate crime under the Freedom of Information Act revealing that a 104 year old is thought to be the oldest victim in the UK after being racially abused in north Manchester. The data also revealed a 99 year old and a 98 year old...
Two men who denied charges of racially aggravated assault on a Turkish takeaway worker changed their pleas mid-trial after the prosecution presented evidence of their Facebook posts boasting about the incident. Jack Hunter, 21 and Thomas Chapman, 23 appeared at York Crown Court this week. The court...
The Sutton Guardian reports on an alleged Islamophobic attack at the Poundland shop in Sutton High Street on Sunday 13 March. The local paper reports that a Muslim worker at the store, Masoomah Jafari, 26, was allegedly called a “f*****g Muslim” and had her headscarf pulled at after a...
The Nottingham Post reports that a man who assaulted a Muslim doctor on the streets of Nottingham last October has received a fine and a suspended sentence. Aidan Fletcher, 23, admitted a charge of racially aggravated assault by beating when he appeared before Nottingham Magistrates Court in...
