The South Wales Evening Post reports on a man who has been found guilty of racially aggravated common assault after he called an Asian customer at a social club in Swansea a “suicide bomber” before assaulting him and throwing him out of the premises. Arthur John Lerwell was drinking in...
The Huddersfield Examiner and The Mirror both report on the trial of a man in court for assaulting a Muslim taxi driver. Paul Knell, 28, appeared before Kirklees Magistrates Court on charges of assault and criminal damage after he attacked taxi driver, Muhammed Naeem, 47, in the early hours of 2...
Online news site Police Professional reports that changes in recruitment policies introduced by the Metropolitan Police Service have dramatically increased the percentage of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) recruits to the force in the last year. Addressing the London Assembly Police and Crime...
The International Business Times and The Star report on four arrests made at Barnsley Railway station in connection with a Britain First march that took place in Dewsbury on Saturday. The four men were arrested by British Transport police for “racially-aggravated public order offences”...
The Irish Examiner and Limerick Leader report on the trial of a man who daubed the words “murderers out” on the front of a Pakistani run takeaway in Limerick after watching beheading videos on television news. Mark Hobbs, 50, an Englishman living in Limerick in Ireland, had previously...
The Mirror reports on the sacking of a supply teacher at a south London school for calling a 12 year old Muslim pupil “a terrorist”. The paper reports that the female supply teacher at Deptford Green secondary school used the term of abuse when the Muslim pupil complained about being placed on...
The Hereford Times reports on the trial of a man charged with two counts of racially aggravated common assault after he launched an attack on an Asian man in the city centre for “no other reason apart from his ethnic background”. Zahid Ali, who had recently moved to Hereford from Birmingham,...
The Times front page today features the headline “Muslims are not like us, race equality chief says”, in an article on the comments by the former Chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Sir Trevor Phillips, at a meeting organised by Policy Exchange on Monday. The headline does a...
The Surrey Advertiser reports on a fine imposed on a man who verbally abused a Muslim woman on the streets of Woking after the Paris attacks in November last year. David Sadgrove pleaded guilty to two counts of racially aggravated harassment at Guildford Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 19...
The Guardian reports on a 37% rise in race hate crimes on Britain’s railway networks within the last five years, with an average of more than five reported incidents of abuse and harassment each day, according to figures released under FOI. British Transport Police (BTP), which collates data...
