The Evening Standard reports that a woman who launched a tirade of Islamophobic abuse on a London bus last month has walked free from court after receiving a suspended sentence. Simone Joseph was filmed by an onlooker abusing two Muslim women travelling with a young child on a bus in north west...
BBC News, the Irish Independent and news website Get West London report on the release of CCTV images by the Metropolitan Police Service after a mother travelling on a bus with her two daughters was verbally abused and punched in a suspected racially aggravated attack. The Met have launched a...
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reports on the sharp increase in Islamophobic and anti-Muslim hate crime across West Yorkshire. Since 2010, Islamophobic hate crimes have more than doubled in the region and some of the worst affected areas have been Huddersfield, Holmfirth, Dewsbury and Batley. The...
BBC News reports on the arrest of three people in connection with a suspected racially aggravated arson attack on the Islamic Cultural Centre in Rhyl, Wales. The news report notes that North Wales police have arrested two men, aged 34 and 46, and an 18 year old woman in connection with the incident...
The Express and Star reports on the sentencing of a man caught putting up anti-Islam posters in the vicinity of the Aisha mosque in Walsall, over three days last July. The posters, which “featured images and messages mocking the Islam faith,” appeared in the Wednesbury Road area in Walsall,...
The Telegraph and Argus reports on the sentencing of a man with previous convictions for racially aggravated offences for a racially motivated attack on a restaurant manager in Bradford. Samuel Smith, 25, visited Shimla Spice restaurant in Shipley on April 25 to use the toilets but on being asked...
Online blog website, Legal Cheek reveals figures from its analysis of BME representation in law firms in the capital showing that ethnic minorities are still under represented in city law firms at senior level, with only a small number of international law firms reflecting the ethnic diversity of...
The Daily Mail, BBC News, The Guardian and the Crown Prosecution Service all report on the sentencing of a man who subjected an elderly Muslim male to a vicious tirade of Islamophobic abuse that only ended when he threw the pensioner’s walking frame off the bus and onto the road. Kashif...
A Facebook post published on Tuesday describes how a Muslim woman in a niqab was allegedly abused by a man while she was working in the maternity ward at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton. The post by Zahid Akhtar described how his wife was verbally abused while she was busy working at the...
The Liverpool Echo reports on the sentencing of a drunken thug who slashed an Iranian taxi driver with a knife while hurling racist abuse at him, before racially harassing his passenger during an attempted robbery in Kensington, Liverpool. Shaun Franey, 33, tried to rob taxi driver Hossain...
