The Courier reports on the outburst by the father of a young man sentenced this week for racially abusing restaurant staff at a Dundee takeaway. Joel Justice, 25, was handed a community sentence with an order to carry out 135 hours of unpaid work and placed on supervision for two years after...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the court appearance of a man guilty of several racially aggravated offences in a long running dispute with a local Muslim resident. Jamie Hardisty, 25, pleaded guilty to two charges of racially-aggravated threatening behaviour and one offence of...
The Loughborough Echo reports on an investigation by UKIP into a Facebook account where a number of anti-Muslim posts have been added under the name of the party’s councillor on Shepshed Town council, Timothy Paul Hicks. The local paper reports that a Facebook account belonging to someone...
The manager of a Muslim takeaway in Dundee at the centre of a recent hate crime trial has said incidents of racist abuse had been “non-stop” following the Paris attacks in November 2015. Mohammed Irfan Nazir, 21, manager of the Curry Junction takeaway shop spoke to the local paper,...
The news website Somerset Live and the Independent report on an attack on the Yeovil Islamic Centre after a report of rocks being thrown through its windows. The incident happened sometime between 11.30pm on Friday, July 15 and 1.30am on Saturday, July 16, according to the local paper. Avon and...
A man who racially abused two takeaway workers at a restaurant in Dundee said he was made to feel “white guilt” over the offence, The Courier and BBC News report. Joel Justice, 25, was drunk when he walked into the Curry Junction shop late on 29 April to order food. Justice asked two men...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused a female police officer who was carrying out a curfew check in line with her duties. The local paper reports the unnamed female officer went to the home of John Moorhouse, 21, on 15 January 2016 to perform checks on a...
There was some commentary at the weekend about the Munich atrocity and recent incidents of indiscriminate violence which reveal both the best and worst of UK media coverage of acts of ‘terrorism’. In the Mirror, Kaye Adams, took aim at the former editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie’s...
The Daily Record reports on the suspended sentence handed to a man who posted a video on Facebook in which he claimed an Indian restaurant’s takeaway menu was “an advertisement for funding Islamic terrorism” before setting it alight. In a rant posted online the man is heard saying “We...
The Sunday Times yesterday printed a correction in relation to an article published on 6 March on prison imams and radicalisation. The Sunday Times and The Times have published several articles over the last few months about a Ministry of Justice report written by a former Home Office official, Ian...
