The Grimsby Telegraph reports on the sentencing of a man who threatened to “cut the throat” of an Asian security guard at a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Grimsby. Shane Watkins, 20, was in a drunken state when he began racially abusing security guard, Yamin Butt, on 23 December last year....
BBC News and the Daily Post report on the guilty plea entered by a man who shoved lit fireworks through the letterbox of an Islamic Centre in Wales last November. Keith Hall, 38, pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated criminal damage, having previously denied the “religiously aggravated”...
“Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reports on banning orders that have been imposed by Sheffield United on a number of the football club’s fans after investigating allegations that some were involved in racist chanting at the team’s fixture against Bradford on 28 December. It was reported...
The Express and Star reports that a Muslim teenager who alleged she had been punched in the face while walking along New Street in Birmingham has been fined after making up the assault. The 18 year old female alleged that she had been targeted by an assailant on 23 November last year because...
The Guardian and London Evening Standard report on an alleged Islamophobic attack in south London during which a Muslim taxi driver was beaten and robbed of a charity collection. Muj Hussain, 31, was collecting charity donations for the charity Source4Life, which provides clean water for people...
The North West Evening Mail reports on a fine and restraining order imposed on a man who racially abused the owner and staff of a pizzeria in Ulverston, Cumbria last September. Furness Magistrates’ Court heard that Lee Alty, 44, had drunk two pints of beer before entering the pizzeria on the...
The Guardian reports of the clearing of Pastor McConnell, the northern Irish clergyman who denounced Islam as “heathen”, “satanic” and a “doctrine spawned in hell.” Pastor McConnell stood trial on charges of the improper use of a public electronic communications network and causing a...
The Belfast Telegraph and Belfast Live report on a police investigation following two incidents of suspected racially aggravated criminal damage after windows at the home of a Somalian resident in South Belfast were smashed. The local papers report that police received a report of a stone being...
The Bristol Post reports on the sentencing of a children’s author who threatened to kill his Muslim neighbour during Ramadan last year over a dispute about noise. George Vernon, 67, was found guilty of a threat to kill and causing racially aggravated fear of violence and racially aggravated...
The Daily Mail reports on a trial at Southwark Crown Court involving a woman charged with one count of religiously aggravated abuse after she allegedly told a hijab-clad Muslim female to “f*** off back to your own country” and threw a wine bottle at her. Virginia Agraviador, 53, is standing...
