The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the court appearance of a man who racially abused an Asian female and her male relative and threatened to “end” them after the woman parked her car outside his house in Liversedge, Huddersfield. Steven Townsend, 59, called the woman a “dirty P***”...
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...
Local news sources Slough Observer and Slough Express report on the sentencing of a man who racially abused a woman in a supermarket car park in Slough last month. Christopher Makepeace, 65, shouted “go back to your own country”, “terrorist” and other abusive words at...
The Guardian and BBC News report on the court hearing of a man who admitted ripping the niqab off a Muslim woman at a shopping centre in Sunderland in July 2015. Peter Scotter, 55, shouted “you are in our country now” when he attacked his victim, who was waiting for her husband...
The Independent and The Chronicle report on a suspected hate crime in Sunderland where the Jami-Masjid on Chester Road was vandalised and the words “Muslims Out” daubed on its outer walls. The incident is believed to have happened sometime between Friday 27 and Saturday 28 January....
Amidst coverage in the Derby Telegraph of a protest in Derby against President Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim ban,’ organised by Stand Up to Racism, is an account of an alleged incident of racist abuse recently experienced by one protestor. The protest was staged on the steps of Council House in...
The Bolton News reports on a takeaway in the town where staff allege to have been subjected to “vandalism, intimidation and racial abuse” over the past few weeks. Mohammad Khan, who works at the Kearsley Pizza and Kebab House in Springfield Road, Kearsley, told the local paper that...
Luton Today reports on local Muslim women who have featured in a BBC documentary about the increasing level of abuse faced by women who wear hijab or niqab. The documentary by BBC1’s Inside Out programme, broadcast on Monday, showed two Luton residents, Jahera and Nishrat, who have been victims...
The Scottish Sun reports on the trial of a man who threatened his Syrian neighbours in Glasgow by pointing a gun at them. William Harvey, 28, pointed the weapon at Said Shekhe and his friends during the incident outside a flat Dalmarnock area of the city last November. Glasgow High Court heard that...
The Mirror reports on the sentencing of a man who punched a Kurdish passenger on a ferry so hard that the victim fell down to a deck below and sustained “severe injuries”. Nathan Waterman, 28, who styled himself the “gangster from Bransholme” attacked the Kurdish victim on...
