A Dundee City councillor suspected of sending anti-Muslim text messages to an SNP colleague of Muslim background has been referred to the Standards Commission and the police according to the Daily Record and STV News. The local paper reports that Craig Melville was referred to Scotland’s...
Local newspaper, East London News reports on a police appeal for witnesses in connection with an alleged Islamophobic assault on a tube train on Saturday 16 January. The local paper notes the witness statement of the victim providing details about an alleged altercation which took place on an...
The Guardian reports on another incident involving a pig’s head left at a Muslim school. The paper reports that a pig’s head was found tied to the gates of the Madani Academy in Portsmouth this morning at around 8.30am. Police suspect that the object may have been placed there on Wednesday...
The Courier and the Fife Reporter report on a man who has appeared in court for sentencing over a racist attack on two Muslim men in Cardenden, Fife almost two years ago. Adrian Wilkinson, 45, had previously admitted that on 21 March 2014, he had behaved in a racially aggravating manner shouting...
The Bristol Post reports that Avon and Somerset Police have arrested a second man in connection with an attack on a mosque in Bristol on Sunday 17 January. A 48 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence and is currently in police custody. The...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports that an arrest has been made in connection with the pig’s head incident at the Muslim Girls School, Markazul Uloom, in Blackburn last December. The paper notes that Lancashire police have arrested a 28 year old man from Darwen. He has been charged on...
Manchester Evening News reports on a police appeal for witnesses after two Muslim taxi drivers were assaulted in the city centre on Saturday night by a gang of youths. The assault, which took place on the evening of 16 January, saw one taxi driver beaten and punched and another, Masud Ali, hit over...
The Nottingham Post reports on the sentencing of the second of two men for an attack on a driver employed by the Star Kebabs shop in Ilkeston, Derbyshire on 13 October. James Whitworth, 30 and Connor Sowersby, 19 were charged with racially-aggravated criminal damage and criminal damage respectively...
The news site, Wales Online, reports on the case of an 81 year old pensioner who has received a suspended prison sentence for making racist and abusive phone calls to the owner of a halal butcher’s shop in Roath, Cardiff. Vernon Mitchell made seven phone calls over a five week period between...
The Bristol Post reports on the notice from Avon and Somerset Police informing that a 34 year old man has been charged over the attack on the Jamia mosque in Totterdown, Bristol on Sunday 17 January. Kevin Shaun Crehan, 34, has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence and is due...
