The Shropshire Star reports on the guilty verdict in the case of a man who made “pig noises” at a hotel employee thinking the man was a Muslim. Michael Williams, 61, of Wrexham denied a charge of racially aggravated harassment over incidents at The Royal Hotel in Llangollen, between January...
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...
The Scotsman reports on a fine imposed on a businessman who subjected staff and guests to racist abuse at Gleneagles golf course after being refused service at the hotel bar. Stefan Hutter, 56, became angry and mouthed off at staff and guests after he was refused service at the bar because of his...
The Times reports on the release of figures by the National Police Chiefs Council on the number of individuals referred to the Prevent-linked Channel programme who have refused to participate in the “supportive intervention” packages designed by the programme’s multi-agency panels. The...
After much trailing of the report on ‘prison radicalisation’ the Ministry of Justice yesterday published an 18 page summary of the ‘main findings of the review of Islamist extremism in prisons, probation and youth justice’ but not the full report. The summary alludes to the preparation of a...
The Burton Mail reports on the jailing of a man for robbery and violent assault on a Muslim taxi driver last year. Richard Williams, 47, pled guilty to charges of racially aggravated harassment, assault causing actual bodily harm and affray but denied robbery. Stoke on Trent Crown Court heard...
The news website Glasgow Live reports on the torment of a Pakistani family who have suffered ongoing racist abuse. Shahad Ishaq told the paper he and his wife Shahnaz were at the “end of their tether” after a campaign of abuse over the last six months failed to be taken seriously by the...
The Torquay Herald Express reports on the suspended sentence handed to a man who committed a string of offences including racially aggravated abuse of a former partner. Andrew Darby, 47, was accused of causing £2,500 pounds worth of damage to TV screens in a William Hill shop and sending 110...
The Guardian reports a 43 year old man has been arrested by the north-east counter-terrorism unit over a bomb threat sent to a Rotherham mosque earlier this month. The threat, which police assessed to be “credible,” was sent to the Jamia Masjid Abu Bakr in Rotherham. The note stated “Next...
IMPRESS, the independent press regulatory body that aspires to adopt a Leveson compliant model of independent press regulation has published a draft Code, akin to the Editors’ Code of Practice employed by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso). IMPRESS’s draft Code, which is open...
