All news on the topic: Hate crime

First minister calls for end to vexatious reports after far-right agitators attempt to “overwhelm” official systems

The prime minister has said people should not be criminalised "for stating simple facts on biology" in response to JK Rowling’s criticism of Scotland’s new hate crime law.

Cleo Mukolwe, eight, has been subjected to cruel bullying about her appearance since starting school but was left 'shattered' after a child called her the N-word while she rode her bike

Communities Secretary Michael Gove has unveiled a long-awaited extremism definition aimed at ensuring certain groups are effectively blacklisted by public bodies

Police Scotland are investigasting the horrifying stabbing of a 13-year-old boy in Queens Park, Glasgow, on his way home from a mosque as loved ones released a picture of him in hospital 'drenched in blood'

Just weeks after coming face to face with her daughter Brianna's teenage killers, Esther Ghey has stepped back into the classroom in a quest to make children kinder

Earlier this week, JK Rowling went on a vile rant and said India Willoughby was 'cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is'

WARNING, DISTRESSING IMAGE: A Muslim family in Shear Brow, Blackburn, saw a rock thrown through their window, followed by a pig's head on Sunday 18 February, leaving police probing a hate crime after two men were seen fleeing from the scene

Janice Wilding said she was "surprised" when she saw the shocking video capturing her actions, and blamed it on a laced drink. However, the 49-year-old provided no evidence and was handed hefty unpaid work for her actions

Police have released CCTV images of a couple who allegedly shouted racial abuse at customers when they were asked to leave the Buck Inn in Northallerton and are now being investigated for hate crimes

A convicted arsonist was sentenced to 18 years in prison and three on parole this week after a March 2023 incident in which he threw two Molotov cocktails at a church planning to host drag show events

A woman from the UK was left reeling by a cruel school prank towards redheads she claims happens in Australia every year. However, locals have responded to the video and put her back in her place

The note, left outside a property in west Wales describes the English occupants as, "low-life” who “should be forced to live in fenced tinker sites” and tells them to leave

A yob punched and kicked the couple in the homophobia attack at Bank Station, part of the London Underground network, and British Transport Police are hunting him

A growing number of far-right hate figures including thug Tommy Robinson and supremacist Nick Fuentes are turning to an online platform which is a hotbed of anti-semitism and conspiracy theory

WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS LANGUAGE SOME READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE. Pub The White Hart Inn, which hit headline this year for its racist dolls, is up for sale

A man was taken to hospital after the fight - involving an estimated 20 people - in south Manchester on Boxing Day, with two people also arrested. Police are appealing for witnesses

Schoolgirl Brianna Ghey, 16, from Greater Manchester, was led to Culcheth Linear Park in Warrington by Girl X and Boy Y before they stabbed her 28 times and fled

Katie Salmon made history by pairing up with the late Sophie Gradon as Love Island's first same-sex couple on ITV

Baristas at Farley’s East Coffee Shop in California stopped a woman from entering the bathroom to take a picture of the writing, which said "Zionism = Fascism" and "your neutrality is enabling genocide"

Two girls aged 13 and 14 have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of robbery after a Jewish woman was attacked in north London and had her handbag stolen

Jamie Arnold, 33, was found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United icon Rio Ferdinand at Wolverhampton Crown Court

Havering Council in Essex said last month it would not be installing a Jewish menorah to celebrate Hanukkah due to security concerns given the current Israel and Hamas conflict

Disability hate crime has increased by over 100% in the past 5 years as 1 in 5 people admit to mocking or laughing at disabled people, and others even resorting to violence, a new study reveals

Oday Al-Fayoume filed the lawsuit last month against the suburban Chicago landlord charged in the attack that left his child dead and the boy's mother seriously wounded