The local newspaper Cumnock Chronicle reports on efforts to eradicate hate crime across Scotland via Police Scotland’s Hate Crime Awareness Week 2017. Hate crime offences are defined as being motivated by malice or ill will towards an individual or particular social group, on the basis of their...
Local paper Essex Chronicle reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused a Muslim woman wearing hijab on a train journey from Stratford last summer. Lee Moss, 31, boarded the Shenfield-bound train at around 3.15pm on 14 July 2016, along with a woman wearing a headscarf, towards whom he...
The Evening Standard reports on figures showing that race and religious hate crime on London’s tube network rose by almost 60% in the six months following the Brexit vote last year. The figures, obtained via a Freedom of Information request, show that a total of 468 racially and religiously...
The Birmingham mother of four children, the youngest being just 15, who were led out of their home by armed police and forced to lie on the ground to be handcuffed, has described the ‘disgraceful’ treatment of her family by the police. She claims that the West Midlands Police, treated...
The Evening Standard reports on the conviction of two adults and a child for a “vicious and brutal” attack on a Muslim mother and daughter in Eltham last year. Paul Anderson, 37, 38-year-old Joanna Farrer, and a teenage girl aged 13 were all found guilty of two counts of religiously aggravated...
A baby was lucky to escape without serious injury after a brick, which was thrown through a bedroom window, landed in its cot. Fortunately the child was in bed with its parents at the time of the attack on account of being ill. The incident – which happened at the Tarragon Park home, in Antrim,...
An Islamic FinTech firm has today become the first of its kind to be authorised by Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority. FinTech firms are those using the latest technology to operate within the financial services industry. The London-based company Yielders, which provides services to retail...
A woman in Birmingham who faced up to an English Defence League supporter described how the police “did nothing” when far-right protesters confronted a woman in a hijab. EDL leader Ian Crossland, along with 20-25 other supporters, had turned on the woman during a protest in Birmingham on 8...
2017 will see an elected contest for a newly-created position – the Mayor of Greater Manchester, who is due to be elected on 4 May 2017. The decision to create the post was announced by former Chancellor George Osborne in November 2014, and will involve the implementation of new primary...
Police chiefs have warned neighbourhood policing will suffer on Saturday 8th April because of the English Defence League demonstration in Birmingham. The far-right hate-group is planning a protest in Centenary Square, where Police estimate as few as 100 EDL supporters may attend. Meanwhile, a...
