Successful prosecution in Rugby
A 56-year old defendant from Rugby has been sentenced for racially abusing two people including a police officer.
Read more...EQuIP recently responded to the Law Commission’s consultation on hate crime as part of its remit to reform current hate legislation. EQuIP is pressing for a number of changes including:
- A single Hate Crime Act
- A new independent Hate Crime Commissioner
- Definition of race in hate crime laws to include 'migration' and 'asylum status' and/or 'language'
- The definition of transgender status to be widened to include trans, non-binary, cross dresser and intersex
- A new protected characteristic of Misogyny to be included (hatred for women)
- Gender and sex to be included
- Widen Football (Offences) Act 1991 to include protection against not just racist but also homophobic hate
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