The Daily Record reports on a fine imposed on a man who sent vile messages to Scotland’s International Development Minister, Humza Yousaf MSP following the Paris attacks on 13 November. On 14 November 2015, Garry David, 42, told Mr Yousaf on Facebook to “get to [sic] f*** out of my...
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The Bolton News reports on the sentencing of a woman who verbally abused and assaulted a Muslim man and caused damage to the front door of a property last December. Susan Draper, 47, pleaded guilty to a charge of racially aggravated assault on Mohammed Masood on 21 December 2015. She also pleaded...
The Grimsby Telegraph reports on the sentencing of a man who threatened to burn down a Muslim owned pizza shop with petrol-filled drink cans on a drunken night out. Aaron Bell, 23, was in a heavily drunk state when he threatened to “burn down” the pizza shop after allegedly being attacked by...
The Yorkshire Post reports on the start of the trial of two men charged with the murder of Muhsin Ahmed, an 81 year old grandfather who was viciously assaulted in the early hours of 10 August 2015 as he made his way to the mosque for the pre-dawn prayers. Dale Jones and Damien Hunt, both […]
The Daily Post reports on developments in connection with a suspected racially aggravated assault at Flint railway station on 30 January. Last week, British Transport Police released CCTV images of two men wanted for questioning in relation to an incident at the station in which two Asian men were...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the trial in abstentia of a man charged with racially aggravated assault on Muslim taxi driver, Mohamed Mirza, in Burnley. Pennine Magistrates court heard that Mr Mirza had turned up at an address in the town to pick up a fare when he was confronted by Daniel...
Scottish Television station STV News reports that a Dundee Councillor under investigation by the SNP for allegedly sending Islamophobic text messages to a female Muslim colleague following the Paris terror attacks in November has quit his job. Craig Melville had already been suspended as an...
As constabularies in England and Wales prepare to mark Hate Crime Awareness Week (February 8 – 14), the Manchester Evening News reports on hate crime statistics for the Greater Manchester region to the year ending September 2015. The figures show that the number of race and religious hate crimes...
The Manchester Evening News reports on a hate crime investigation launched by Greater Manchester Police after a Muslim family in Salford were terrorised by a gang of men armed with a gun, a meat cleaver and a knife who broke into their home and shouted, “We are going to kill you. Isis scum.”...
