The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the court appearance of a man who racially abused a Muslim ticket inspector at Blackburn railway station after being told he would need to go through ticket inspection. Peter Eccles, 56, has made the same commuter journey from Blackburn to Halifax for 30 years...
STV News and The Herald report on the release of CCTV images of a man sought by Police Scotland in connection with a report of an alleged religiously aggravated incident at the Thistles shopping centre in Stirling earlier this year. The news report states the victim, a 27 year old woman, was...
The Times yesterday published yet another article trailing the Louise Casey review report with a column by Rachel Sylvester claiming the “hard left are sabotaging anti-extremism plans.” Sylvester opens with the case of a Muslim pupil who was supposedly marked out for the Channel intervention...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports on the community sentence passed on a man whose rant against a pair of Muslim students on an Exeter street in May went viral after it was posted online. Stephen Scatcherd, 59, admitted using threatening and abusive language and pleaded guilty to a racially...
North Hertfordshire District Council has announced that it is to serve as a third party reporting centre and that victims of hate crime can report incidents to the council via its customer services centre without need to go the police station. Third party reporting centres are a vital mechanism...
The Independent and London Evening Standard report on a suspected Islamophobic attack in north London where a Muslim woman had her headscarf pulled off as she stood at a crossing on Tottenham High Road last month. The victim, a 20 year old Psychology student at Goldsmiths College has since spoken...
The Ballymoney Times reports on the suspended sentence handed to a man who called a male a “P*** b******” after getting drunk on the first anniversary of his cousin’s death. Steven Johnstone, 21, was marking the one year anniversary of the death of his cousin, Adam Gilmour who was killed in...
The Bicester Advertiser reports on the sentencing of a man convicted of criminal damage, possession of a Class B drug, and racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress at the Nuffield Health Centre in Oxford on 20 September. Scott Hadlow, 36, admitted damaging a...
The Daily Mail reports on the interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning with the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC, in which he repeated his argument that the Government’s Prevent strategy is “fuelling distrust” among Muslim communities. The...
The Daily Express reports on the disbarring of a nurse who was convicted of religiously aggravated common assault last year after verbally abusing and assaulting a taxi driver in Nottingham. Elaine Roots, 57, was picked up by a driver on 10 June 2015 after a night out in Nottingham. Roots, who...
