The Courier reports on the community order handed to a man who abused his Muslim convert stepfather via Facebook’s messaging system and telling him to “go and eat bacon”. Dean McAndrew, 28, pleaded guilty in December to using a public communications network to send grossly offensive or...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the trial of a decorator who was found guilty of daubing racist abuse and drawing a pig’s head on the walls of a Muslim homeowner’s property in Blackburn. The paper reports Stephen Gary Oliver, 54, drew the offending images and then papered over the markings...
The Sun reports on a police appeal to trace a man who plastered “racist and anti-Semitic” stickers across London Underground stations last month. British Transport Police have released an image of the man they wish to speak to in connection with the sighting of the offensive stickers which...
The Independent, ITV News and the Milton Keynes Citizen report that the man arrested for allegedly attacking a Somali Muslim woman in a supermarket car park last August, causing her to lose her unborn twins, has been charged. David Gallacher, 37, has been charged with one count of assault...
The Mirror reports on the “shocking rant” by far-right activist Jack Buckby during a Channel 4 News debate about the “Alt-Right” on Wednesday, 8 February. During the discussion, Buckby pulled out a refugee application form and addressing a member of the National Union of Students’...
Local news site Citiblog reports on hate crime awareness materials produced by students in Luton that are to be used by Bedfordshire Police in their poster campaign encouraging victims to report hate crime. Students from Stockwood Park Academy in Luton won a Bedfordshire-wide competition held...
The West Sussex County Times reports on the court appearance of a man charged with posting comments on Facebook “intended to stir up religious hatred”. Nigel Pelham, 49, is alleged to have posted comments on the social media site calling for the introduction of a “bomb a mosque...
The Shropshire Star reports on threats received by a Muslim businessman in Telford after his shop sign was used in a video by the far right group by Britain First to claim it was “proof of Islamic extremism in Wellington”. The shop, Silicon Valley, bears a symbol on its shop front in...
STV News reports on the court appearance of a Scottish teenager who assaulted a Muslim woman at a shopping centre in Stirling, trying to rip off her headscarf. Leighton MacKenzie, 18, appeared before Stirling Sheriff Court on charges of religiously aggravated assault in connection with the...
The Evening Standard reports on a woman who was abused and called a “race traitor” as she made her way to the protest against Donald Trump in central London on Saturday 4 February. Sophia Nicolov, a 23-year-old student from London, was on a Piccadilly Line tube train with her sister Alice...
