The Daily Record, STV News and the Herald Scotland report on a fine imposed by Paisley Sheriff Court in the case of a man who posted disparaging comments about Islam and Muslims on Twitter following the Glasgow bin lorry crash in December 2014. The lorry crash on 22 December killed six people and...
The Portsmouth News reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused and assaulted a taxi driver over a dispute about a travel route. Peter Saville, 61, was picked up by Aqua Cars driver, Abdulerhman Eltahir, outside a pub on 27 September 2015. Saville paid the driver £5.00 in advance but...
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of the Constabulary has published the findings from the legitimacy strand of an all-inspection programme covering the 43 police forces in England and Wales. This is the first inspection of police legitimacy, and forms part of HMIC’s annual all-force inspection...
The Daily Mail reports on the latest development in the case of three women charged with racially aggravated common assault after they allegedly attacked a Muslim woman on the school run, pulling off her hijab and punching her in the face. The three women, Emma Marie Camilleri, 35, Sarah Gaskin, 18...
The Derby Telegraph reports on the sentencing of a man who abused a passerby and two police officers on the day after the Paris attacks on 13 November 2015. David Gregory, 46, was wandering around drunk in the street on the afternoon of Saturday 14 November when he launched a racist verbal...
The preliminary findings of a research project focusing on the representation of citizens of immigrant origin in eight European countries was published yesterday by the University of Leicester. The report, titled Pathways to Power: The Political Representation of Citizens of Immigrant Origin in...
The Ledbury Reporter reports on the sentencing of a man found guilty of two charges of racially aggravated common assault for beating up a British Pakistani in Hereford city centre last July. Jonathan Evans was convicted last month of punching Zahid Ali in the face on a night out in the city. Evans...
Online news site Staffs Live report on the sentencing of a racist thug who committed a number of violent racially aggravated crimes against Muslim victims. Christopher Cuthbertson, 30, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated unlawful wounding, racially aggravated common assault, racially aggravated...
The Yorkshire Post reports on the sentencing of a Bulgarian national who abused staff at a takeaway shop in Leeds while brandishing a kitchen knife and threatening to kill them. Stanislav Yordanov, 44, visited the shop on 20 November 2015 and asked the member of staff serving him if he was a...
The Daily Record reports on a fine imposed on a man who sent vile messages to Scotland’s International Development Minister, Humza Yousaf MSP following the Paris attacks on 13 November. On 14 November 2015, Garry David, 42, told Mr Yousaf on Facebook to “get to [sic] f*** out of my...
