Four Chelsea football fans have been sentenced after they were filmed racially abusing a man in Paris during a Champions League match fixture in the French capital two years ago. The incident, which happened in February 2015, saw the football fans chant “we are racist, we are racist, and that’s...
The Worcester News reported yesterday on the alleged racist assault on a Muslim taxi driver on New Year’s Eve. Sajid Bhatti, 33, was parked at a taxi rank outside Worcester Shrub Hill station at 11pm when he was allegedly attacked by a group of people. Mr Bhatti claims there were three men that...
The South Wales Evening Post reports on the trial of a pensioner who racially abused a Polish Muslim convert, telling her to “go back to your own country” and shouted at her to remove her niqab. Bert Fahy, 75, appeared before Swansea Magistrates’ court in connection with the...
The Derby Telegraph and Daily Mail reported last week on an alleged assault on a Muslim taxi driver in Normanton, Derby who was subjected to a “brutal” ordeal by a passenger who refused to pay her taxi fare following a late night journey. Shahid Iqbal, 50, was driving the female...
The Plymouth Herald reports on the suspended sentence handed to a former soldier with mental health problems who sent bomb threats to mosques and Muslims in the UK. Jamie Bond, 43, sent letters in red ink to three mosques in Rotherham in Yorkshire, Bristol and Cardiff and to two men in...
The Sunday Telegraph front page article on 1 January claimed that the number of extremists abusing the charity sector are at an all-time high. It claimed the number of times the Charity Commission has raised concerns about links between charities and extremism with police and other agencies has...
On 27 December, three Muslim women confronted a man who allegedly called them “f***ing p***s” in a busy shopping centre in Hull. Footage from the incident filmed on a mobile phone was later posted on YouTube by one of the victims and was posted on the Mail Online website last week. It shows the...
The Middlewich Guardian reports on the fine and curfew order imposed on a man who launched a “tirade of racist abuse” at an Indian restaurant worker who asked him to move his car from disabled parking bays outside the restaurant. Oliver Callow, 25, visited an Indian restaurant in...
The Express and Star reported last week on the ruling handed down by the Independent Regulatory Commission investigating an “aggravated breach” of the Football Association Handbook by Newcastle United player Jonjo Shelvey, who was accused of shouting racist slurs against...
The Falkirk Herald reports on a racist incident at a Turkish takeaway where a customer racially abused staff after being refused a kebab when he failed to pay for his order. Andrew Fay, 47, appeared before Falkirk Sheriff Court last Thursday (22 December), in connection with the incident at Hot...
