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Showing 1 - 8 of 8 results for crime type "Hate crime" & area "London North"
A man from Hornsey who made a number of threatening, racist and religiously abusive telephone calls to Finsbury Park Mosque has been sentenced.Lee Harper, 47, pleaded guilty to sending a message threatening serious harm, and guilty to two offences of sending menacing messages.He was sentenced…
A group of teenagers who lured a transgender 18-year-old woman to a car park and assaulted her in a pre-planned attack have been jailed today.Summer Betts-Ramsey, 20, Bradley Harris, 18, Camron Osei, 18, Shiloh Hindes, 18, and a 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named because of their age, punched,…
Two teenagers who targeted Jewish women and girls in an antisemitic rampage in Stamford Hill have been sentenced today.The two teenagers, who cannot be named because of their age, targeted the victims in four separate incidents over the course of half an hour in December 2023 – including one attack…
Standing united against hate crime and public disorder in LondonThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Pan-London Hate Crime scrutiny panel held an extraordinary meeting last week in a united stand against hate crime and public disorder in the capital.The panel brings together criminal justice…
A man whose vile abuse of a bus driver was widely shared on social media has been jailed.Michael Mongan, 39, unleashed a tirade of religiously-aggravated abuse and spat at the driver after being denied entry when his payment card was declined.The incident, which took place on August 7 in Hayes, saw…
Press ReleaseHate crimeViolent crimeCPSLondon North
Swift justice has been delivered by the Crown Prosecution Service today in a racist attack that took place on Friday.Rennel Walker-Arthur, 30, shouted racist abuse at his neighbours on Milton Avenue, East Ham, and threatened to stab them.Intoxicated by drugs, Walker-Arthur retrieved a kitchen knife…
A man who shouted a tirade of Islamophobic abuse at a group of women on Romford High Street has been sentenced.Terry Eury, 56, pleaded guilty to two religiously aggravated public order offences at Thames Magistrates’ Court and was sentenced today (21 May 2024) to 12 weeks' imprisonment, suspended…
A man has been sentenced to 10 weeks’ imprisonment for shouting antisemitic and other racist slurs in public before making violent threats toward a police officer.Police were called to Seven Kings station in Ilford, London, on 11 November 2023, to reports of a man threatening members of the public…
Press ReleaseHate crimeCPSLondon North
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