The Daily Echo reports on the arrest of a Polish man by immigration officials as he walked away from court minutes before having been handed a suspended sentence for abusing a Muslim customer at a McDonalds restaurant in Shirley High Street, Southampton. Cezary Posylek, 45, was arrested at...
Cumbria Police and the News and Star report on a police investigation into an alleged incident of racially-aggravated harassment towards a staff member at an Indian restaurant in Carlisle. The incident was caught on CCTV and involved a group of young males who were shown banging on the window of...
The Western Morning News reports on the sentencing of two women from Plymouth one of whom urinated in front of a Muslim couple as they prayed in a Devon park. Claire Farrell, 36, pleaded guilty to religiously-aggravated threatening and abusive behaviour causing harassment at Plymouth Crown Court on...
The Guardian reports on a speech to be delivered today by former Business Secretary, Vince Cable, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies’ conference on PREVENT in Practice, in which he is expected to criticise the government’s new counter-extremism strategy and the legal requirement...
Some of the weekend papers (Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express) covered the second reading of Baroness Caroline Cox’s Arbitration and Mediation Bill in the House of Lords last Friday headlining with the peer’s incendiary remark that ” in some [Muslim] communities with high...
The Guardian, UTV and Belfast Telegraph report that two severed pigs’ heads bearing anti-Islam slogans were left on the doorsteps of a church in north Belfast amid unsubstantiated rumours circulating on social media that the disused church was to be turned into a mosque. Rumours on...
The Northern Echo and the Gazette Live report on a march that took place over the weekend by a number of far-right groups in East Cleveland in their bid to close down a halal abattoir in the town and “reclaim the village”. Approximately 100 members from various far-right groups including the...
The Herald Scotland reports on new research published by academics from the universities of Newcastle, St Andrew’s and Edinburgh which shows that a “majority” of Muslim pupils in Scottish schools have experienced Islamophobia. The research, conducted by Prof Peter Hopkins of Newcastle...
The Mirror reports on the court appearance of a man who was arrested and charged on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offence following an Islamophobic rant on a London bus last week. The Metropolitan Police reports that Kashif Samuels, 25, pleaded guilty to the charge in court...
The London Evening Standard, Guardian and The Independent all report on the arrest of a 25 year old man in connection with an alleged incident of anti-Muslim abuse on a London bus last week. Kashif Samuels was arrested and charged on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence after he...
