The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the sentencing of a man for racially abusing a housing officer during a routine visit to a property owned and managed by Twin Valley Homes in Blackburn. Amjed Ali Sadagar, an anti-social behaviour officer for Twin Valley, was paying a routine visit to a...
The Daily Mail today reports on the court appearance of a man who was arrested in June 2016 for allegedly posting what were described as “extreme” Islamophobic, right wing and anti-Semitic posts on social media. Sean Creighton, 44, was arrested in a joint operation by Scotland Yard’s...
A number of papers today (see here, here, here and here) report on the results of a YouGov survey on the burqa and the burkini. The polling company has published the results of a poll asking the public two questions about the recent burkini bans imposed on some beaches in France and the related...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on court cases heard at Kirklees magistrates court last week including a case of abuse directed at two Muslim individuals. Liam Muir, 25, from Batley was convicted of using racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly...
The news site, Southport Visitor, reports that a primary school worker who appeared to joke about a woman wearing a burqa concealing suicide bomber vests has been suspended pending an investigation. Liz Leadbetter, a welfare assistant at Westhead Lathom St James’ C of E allegedly posted an...
A woman who called a chip and kebab shop owner a “f****** terrorist” while drunk has been fined for the offence. Tracy Ann Whitworth, 46, admitted using threatening or abusive words that were racially aggravated, on 5 May 2016 when she appeared before Mansfield magistrates court this...
The Stoke Sentinel reports on the arrest of a number of teenagers on suspicion of racially aggravated abuse and assault after an incident in Normacot, in Stoke on Trent at the weekend. Staffordshire police questioned 13 teenagers, aged between 15 and 19, amid reports of racially aggravated...
An alleged victim of racist abuse was handed a conditional discharge and told to “button his lip” or face being hauled before the court in a case heard at Colchester Magistrates Court yesterday. The Harwich and Manningtree Standard reports on a dispute arising from the sentence handed...
The Home Affairs select committee report on Countering Extremism released today covers a lot of ground that has been rehearsed repeatedly in recent months about the failings of the Government’s counter-extremism strategy and the Prevent programme in particular. In a report noting 24...
The Dorset Echo reports on a suspected racially aggravated act of criminal damage after a kebab shop in Littlemoor Shopping Centre in Weymouth was vandalised with a swastika. Turkish businessman Gem Ciftlik spoke of his shock to find the graffiti on his shop front in the middle of the day. Mr...
