The Reading Chronicle covers court proceedings at Berkshire magistrates last month including one case of religiously aggravated harassment. The local paper notes John Barry, 58, admitted a charge of religiously aggravated harassment likely to cause alarm or distress. Barry was reported after a...
The Ipswich Star reports on the case of a man who lashed out at a Muslim shop assistant after she referred to his bottle of wine as “booze” telling her “Calling wine booze is like calling all Muslims terrorists, like you.” Rand Moore, 44, appeared before South East Suffolk Magistrates’...
The news website Belfast Live reports on the suspended sentence passed on a woman who posted material on Facebook calling for a Muslim community leader to be shot and Muslims to be “gassed.” Belfast Magistrates’ court heard that Anne Bothwell, 53, posted comments on the Facebook...
Lincolnshire police have issued an appeal for information in connection with an alleged incident of verbal abuse in Brayford North, Lincoln. The police statement says that a man was seen pointing at a woman in a burqa outside the Sports Bar on Brayford North, Lincoln at around 10.15 am on Wednesday...
The Metro and The Gazette report on the sentencing of a woman who subjected a group of Muslims to verbal abuse before smashing the windows of the community centre where they had gathered during Ramadan. Teresa Dent, 46, approached the Turkish Community Centre in Colchester around 10.45pm on 10 June...
The International Business Times reports on the High Court victory secured by Bedfordshire police against the far right group Britain First which bans the group from entering parts of Luton, particularly the Bury Park area, and any mosque in England and Wales for the next three years. The High...
The Times returns to its support for the British Veterinary Association’s campaign to end the exemptions applied to Muslim and Jewish communities on religious slaughter practices in an article in today’s paper which refers to an undertaking by the Food Standards Agency to publish “regular...
There is considerable coverage in the newspapers today about the trial of Anjem Choudary, the “firebrand” cleric who has been the source of steady income for journalists over the years who have offered him the pedestal from which to espouse inflammatory views. He’s rarely enjoyed the same...
The North West Evening Mail reports on a police investigation following a suspected racist incident at a kebab shop in Barrow-in-Furness. The local paper reports police are investigating an incident at the Hot Potato takeaway and kebab shop on William Street on Friday 12 August where “staff were...
There was an disturbing editorial in The Times newspaper last week coinciding with the publication of the report by the select committee for Women and Equalities, which found that the government’s Prevent programme was compounding inequalities experienced by Muslims through its failure to...
