The Mirror and Portsmouth News report on the arrest of two men in connection with a suspected hate crime at the Madani Academy Islamic School in Portsmouth in January. Staff at the school arrived on the morning of Thursday 21 January to find a pig’s head tied to the gate. The head had a...
In the interests of transparency and for full disclosure to the nearly 3,000 people who complained about The Sun’s front page story last November, ‘1 in 5 Brit Muslims’ sympathy for jihadis’, and The Times article on the same, we are publishing all our correspondence with...
Local paper, The Herald, reports on the sentencing of a 53 year old man after he was convicted of racially or religiously aggravated common assault at Banbury Magistrates’ Court this week. Andrew Lydiatt, 53, was found guilty of racially or religiously aggravated common assault on...
The Croydon Advertiser, The Guardian and The Independent all report on the arrest of a man who tweeted a message about “confronting” a Muslim woman on the street in Croydon and asking her to “explain Brussels”. Her response, “nothing to do with me” was...
The Coventry Telegraph reports on the remarks by Britain’s first ethnic minority police officer on diversity in police recruitment. Former police constable Mohammed Daar joined West Midlands Police on 16 March 1966. News of his appointment was published on the front page of a number of national...
The Mirror reports on the guilty verdict reached by a jury in the trial of Natalie Sharp, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Tia Sharp, who was standing trial on charges of racially aggravated assault in connection with an incident at a Lidl supermarket on 18 April 2015. Earlier this week,...
The Lincolnshire Echo and The Lincolnite report on the launch of a police investigation after anti-Islamic posters were found at a building site where a new mosque is due to be built in the city. One of the posters bore the message “no more mosques” and appeared overnight on the gates of...
The Manchester Evening News reports on new figures released on hate crime under the Freedom of Information Act revealing that a 104 year old is thought to be the oldest victim in the UK after being racially abused in north Manchester. The data also revealed a 99 year old and a 98 year old...
ITV News and the Bristol Post report on the court appearance of three people charged with a religiously aggravated assault offence in connection with the attack on Totterdown mosque in January 2016. Mark Bennett, 48, his wife Alison Bennett, 46, and Angelina Swailes, 31, were due to stand...
The Metro, The Mirror and The Chronicle report on the trial of a man who stabbed an Asian male in the neck with a pair of scissors in a revenge attack for ISIS beheadings claiming “God told me to do it”. The trial at Newcastle Crown Court heard that the victim, 32, had been waiting in his...
