Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of the Constabulary (HMIC) has published reports covering four constabularies, Bedfordshire, Staffordshire, Essex and Surrey, as part of the effectiveness strand in its all-inspection PEEL programme – Police Effectiveness, Efficiency and Legitimacy –...
The MP for Chippenham, Michelle Donelan, has described a post-Brexit hate incident in which one of her former staffers, a British-Pakistani called Taimur, was racially abused while shopping in London. At Prime Minister’s Questions on 29 June, Ms Donelan told the Prime Minister, David Cameron:...
The Bristol Post and BBC News report on four street preachers who were arrested on suspicion of public order offences with a street sermon allegedly referring to minorities in disparaging terms. The local paper reports on the four people, believed to be from US based group Cross Encounters...
Wales Online and the Mirror report on hate crimes experienced by a Muslim refugee family in Cardiff over the last few months including having the words “Muslims are scum” daubed onto their front door. The family, who hail from Egypt and have four young children aged three, six, eight...
The Daily Record reports on the delay in the sentencing of a woman who racially abused a Muslim police officer and caused extensive damage to a taxi. Carolann Chisholm, 37, pleaded guilty to three charges for racially aggravated threatening and abusive behaviour likely to cause fear and alarm,...
The Bath Chronicle and Metro report on the alleged racist assault of a woman who was punched in the face by bus passengers whom she confronted after hearing them espouse Islamophobic views. Kerry Parkinson was riding on a bus on her way home on Tuesday 5 July when a couple on board began making...
The London Evening Standard reports on envelopes containing “white powder” which have been sent to mosques in Leyton, Tottenham and Finsbury Park. Envelopes containing the substance has the words “P*** filth” written on them and one bore an image of a mosque with a line...
The Essex Chronicle reports on the cut in the prison sentence of a woman who pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated public order offence after she launched a “torrent of abuse” at a medic. Nicola Meechan, 37, was sentenced to four months’ in prison at Chelmsford Crown Court in...
Local paper, Pendle Today, reports on the trial of a man who attacked a Muslim male as he left his workplace in Nelson, Lancashire in the early hours on 21 February. Calling Thomas, 24, was “groggy” from drink when he set upon Zeshan Elahi as he left work. Burnley Magistrates’...
The Northern Ireland Newsletter newspaper reports on the community sentence handed to a man found guilty of racially abusing two Muslim men in an attack at their home in Belfast in 2014. Mohammed Asif Khattak and a friend were verbally abused and assaulted when a group of people gathered outside...
