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CPS West Midlands: Successful Hate Crime Cases – October 2024
In October 2024, the CPS West Midlands Magistrates’ and Crown court units successfully prosecuted various hate crime cases. Below are some of the cases.
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Statistics on race hate crime including victims and defendants

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Prosecutions of racial hate crime offenders by principal offence category (such as Drug offences, violence against persons etc.) by ethnic breakdown for the years of 2019 to 2022.

Can I also request the victims (or complainants) of racial hate crime for the years of 2019 to 2022.

Is it possible you can connect principal offence category to the victim of a racial hate crime as well? That would be great if you can, if not please exclude.

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TikToker sentenced for grossly offensive antisemitic posts
A TikTok user who continually posted antisemitic content to her thousands of followers has been sentenced.
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Former Savill’s manager guilty of posting racist comment on social media after Euro 2020 final

A former manager at Savill’s Estate Agency has pleaded guilty to posting a racist comment on social media following the Euro 2020 final.

Andrew Bone, 41, posted the comment shortly after 11pm on 11 July 2021, using racist language about the players who failed to score after taking penalties in the final at Wembley stadium.

Martin Brogan, Senior Crown Prosecutor for CPS North West said: “Andrew Bone took to social media to post a hateful racist comment, and in doing so, he broke the law.

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CPS West Midlands: Successful Hate Crime Cases – July to September 2024
From July to September 2024, the CPS West Midlands Magistrates’ court unit successfully prosecuted various hate crime cases. Below are some of the cases.
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CPS data summary Quarter 1 2024-2025
The CPS does not publish official statistics. CPS data is operational management information, which can be used as an indicator of CPS performance.
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Racist social media post leads to football banning order for Burnley fan

A Burnley season ticket holder was given a football banning order today at Blackburn Magistrates' Court for three years after admitting posting a racist comment on a social media post.

John Southwell, 64, told officers in his police interview that he couldn’t remember if he had posted the offensive comment on a post featuring a Chelsea football player.

He went on to plead guilty at Blackburn Magistrates' Court on 5 August 2024.

On 8 October 2024, Southwell was given a £345 fine, uplifted due to the hate element and a three year football banning order was imposed.

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Ethnicity data for defendants and victims for rape, sexual assault and hate crime

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Request Please can I have the statistics on perpetrators and victims by race and ethnicity of rape and sexual assault where the case has been solved between the years 2000-2008 and 2018-2023 in England and Wales taking the population into account for each ethnicity group. 

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Ethnic breakdown of prosecutions for hate crime, rape and child abuse cases

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Can I please access ethnicity breakdown of flagged crime types of people who had prosecutions against them for 2020, 2021 and 2022

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Man jailed for threatening to kill Ed Miliband MP.
A man has been jailed for physically threatening to kill Ed Miliband MP on a street in Doncaster.
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