The Daily Mail reports on the conviction of former UKIP prospective parliamentary candidate, Sam Naz, 33, for racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress after she subjected a Tesco employee to a barrage of verbal abuse in a supermarket car park last year. Ms Naz, who contested...
The Shields Gazette reported yesterday on anti-Muslim stickers which have appeared in South Shields in Tyne and Wear bearing slogans like “Rapefugees not welcome”. The papers (see The Times (£) and Mirror) report on stickers which have been sighted on lamp-posts and bus stop shelter windows...
The Guardian today reports on Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary reports into thirteen police forces which were suspended from the Home Office ‘Best Use of Stop and Search’ scheme (BUSS) for failing to comply with at least three of the conditions in the scheme. The former Home...
The Milton Keynes Citizen reports on an anti-racism rally to be held in Milton Keynes and organised by Stand Up to Racism, after an expectant mother lost her baby in a racist attack. The incident involving a headscarf wearing Muslim female who was attacked in a supermarket car park by a man...
ITV News and Manchester Evening News report on the story of a Muslim woman who has spoken about her experiences of verbal abuse recounting a recent episode at a shopping mall in Manchester. Masarit Begum, 42, said she had walked into the Stretford Mall after dropping off her kids at school when an...
The Derby Telegraph reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused two female neighbours calling them “Isis slags” and “Isis bitches”. Christopher Blurton, 50, pleaded not guilty when he appeared before Derby Crown Court last week but was convicted on Friday 16 September of racially...
News website, News North Wales, reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused an Egyptian male, thinking he was a Muslim, and made “pig snorting noises” at him. Michael Williams, 61, of Wrexham, was found guilty last month of racially aggravated harassment over incidents at The Royal...
The Guardian reports a suspected hate crime in Edinburgh after the city’s central mosque suffered minor fire damage caused by an object thrown in the early hours of Sunday 18 September. Edinburgh central mosque in the Potterrow area of the city was targeted in what police are calling a hate...
A woman who racially abused a Muslim female and assaulted her father over a parking dispute has been convicted on four counts including one count of assault by beating, racially-aggravated assault by beating, racially-aggravated threatening words with intent to cause fear or provoke unlawful...
The Times reports that the woman who lost her baby in a racially aggravated attack outside a Co-op store in Milton Keynes is Muslim. Thames Valley Police yesterday reported the incident took place on 6 August in Bletchley, Milton Keynes. A 34 year old pregnant woman was racially abused and...
