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United Kingdom | England and Wales Court of Appeal | 2015 | United Kingdom / / R v. O'Leary [2015] EWCA Crim 1306 | Race/Ethnicity | Muslims | Over the course of one evening the appellant repeatedly intimidated two victims causing them physical injuries and psychological harm. During one attack, while brandishing a knife, the appellant told his victim that he wanted to kill a Muslim. The appellant was convicted of unlawful wounding but not racially aggravated unlawful wounding. In his sentencing however, the trial judge made specific reference to the significant psychological harm caused to the victim due to the racial nature of the… | View more |
United Kingdom | England and Wales Court of Appeal | 2015 | United Kingdom / [2015] EWCA Crim 1414 / R v. Cooke (Steven) | Religion | Muslims | The appellant, a member of the far-right English Defence League (EDL) who oppose the “Islamification” of England, pleaded guilty to an offence of violent disorder after taking part in a serious episode of public disorder. During a demonstration, EDL members chanted racist and anti-Muslim chants, burnt flags and committed serious violence towards the police and counter United Against Fascism demonstrators, who were mainly young people of Asian origin. The judge found a religiously aggravated… | View more |
United Kingdom | Employment Tribunal | 2015 | United Kingdom / Employment Tribunals / Case no. 3400174/2013 / Tirkey v Chandok and another | Religion, Race/Ethnicity | Migrants | The Court found that the Claimant was a victim of harassment on grounds of her race and indirect discrimination on grounds of her religion. She was an Indian national employed by the Respondent as a live-in domestic worker between 2008 and 2012 after being recruited in India. In 2012, the Claimant resigned following fundamental breaches of her employment contract, including 18 hours a day, seven days a week, paid extremely low wages (as low as 11p an hour), without a bed or private space etc.… | View more |
United Kingdom | The Central Criminal Court (Crown Court) | 2013 | United Kingdom / Central Criminal Court (Crown Court)/ Judgement / The Queen v. Pavlo Lapshyn | Religion | Muslims | Pavlo Lapshyn, a 24 year old Ukrainian engineering student on a working visa, was sentenced to minimum 40 years in prison for a murder and racially aggravated crimes. Just days after he arrived in the United Kingdom he stabbed Mohammed Saleem, 81, to death. He had also been planning a series of explosions at mosques in the United Kingdom. Within a period of less than two months he planted and detonated three improvised explosive devices in the vicinity of three mosques in Walsall, Wolverhampton… | View more |
United Kingdom | Bexley Magistrates Court | 2013 | United Kingdom / Bexley Magistrates Court | Religion | Muslims | <p>On 29 June 2013, Tracey Davies, 46, started shouting racist remarks at a 55-year-old Somali woman who was wearing a burka whilst out shopping with her daughter in Woolwich town centre. Davies then hit the victim and punched her numerous times. </p> | View more |
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