The Glasgow Evening Times reports on a fine imposed on a man who pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated offence after verbally abusing a young Muslim child and his relatives saying “I’m going to f****** bomb your house and I’m going to f****** kill the child.” James Conner, 67, was...
The Joint Committee on Human Rights today published a report following its inquiry into the Counter-Extremism Strategy, Prevent and the proposed Extremism Bill. The committee’s inquiry was intended to review the proposals in the Government’s announced Extremism Bill, declared in the 2015...
BBC News reports on a nursery nurse who has been struck off the children’s services day care register for displaying “a pattern of concerning behaviour” which included calling a two year old a “bomber” and a “terrorist”. The Scottish Social Services Council ruled that Nikki...
Avon and Somerset police have issued a statement in connection with the sentencing of four individuals for their involvement in a mosque attack in Bristol earlier this year. The incident at the Totterdown mosque in Bristol happened on the afternoon of Sunday 17 January when a group of people...
The Birmingham Mail reports on a police investigation into an alleged racist incident after a woman and a four year old girl had ‘fake’ poo rubbed in their faces while out and about with family on a Saturday afternoon. Tayyib Nawaz posted details of the alleged incident on Facebook...
The Sunderland Echo, BBC News and ITV News report on the court appearance of a man charged with racially aggravated common assault after he allegedly tore a Muslim woman’s face veil from her face as she shopped with her husband and young child at the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland...
The Home Office recently published statistics on the use of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation. The report covers terrorism-related arrests, outcomes and stop and search figures for the financial year ending 31 March 2016. Below are some of the key findings: 255...
The Metro and Daily Mail report on the court appearance of a woman charged with religiously aggravated criminal damage after she shouted “Saudi Arabia go home” at a Muslim artist last month and destroyed her art installation. Mikaela Haze, 70, walked into the Royal College of Art on the...
The Metro newspaper reports on a Muslim restauranteur from Newcastle who has been the victim of anti-Muslim abuse since the Brexit vote decision was announced on 24 June. Shasiqul Islam who owns an Indian restaurant called The Bindi said that he had received copies of his takeaway menu defaced...
The Blackpool Gazette reports on alleged racist incident in which Muslim woman was racially abused and had a can of beer thrown over now leaving her too afraid to go out. Rashida Begum, 33, was on her way to pick up her youngest child from school on Monday 4 July when she encountered a group of...
