1993
Some stories
Poll finds black people have no faith in police
A Harris poll, commissioned by BBC television, found that three-quarters of the African-Caribbean population in the UK believe racism is endemic through all ranks of the British police.
1 December 1993 (85 words)
Court convicts murderers of Asian taxi driver
Mark Lee (22) and Ricky Lee (19) have been jailed for life for the murder of an Asian minicab driver, Fiaz Mirza, with a recommendation that they should serve a minimum of 22 years.
1 December 1993 (194 words)
Campaign launched to end racism in football
In August, the Commission for Racial Equality and the Professional Footballers' Association launched a campaign to rid football of racism and to increase the number of black people on the terraces and in the boardroom.
1 December 1993 (84 words)
BNP deputy leader remanded
The BNP deputy leader, Richard Edmonds, has been remanded in custody accused of violent disorder.
1 December 1993 (58 words)
Fascist elected in Tower Hamlets
A victory for the neo-nazi British National Party in a local election in Millwall in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets, on the 16 September, means that a far-Right party in the UK has secured its first council seat in a local election since May 1979.
1 December 1993 (430 words)
Residents oppose Gypsy camp
Villagers in Middlezoy, on the Somerset Levels, have formed an action group and staged a three-month picket to stop the construction of a proposed council camp for 19 Romany families.
1 December 1993 (196 words)
Other attacks in London
On 16 September, the night of the BNP local election victory in Tower Hamlets, a young white man, Paul Pye, from south-east London, was attacked by a man believed to be a neo-nazi who slashed his face with a carving knife and called him a 'nigger lover'.
1 December 1993 (128 words)
Death of Joy Gardner in deportation attempt
The Home Office and the Metropolitan police have announced a joint review of procedures for dealing with deportation, following the death of a 40-year-old Jamaican woman, Joy Gardner, who was manacled and gagged by a special deportation squad of police and immigration officials.
1 December 1993 (269 words)
Other deportation cases cause alarm
Following the death of Joy Gardner, it has emerged that the Home Office has employed private security firms to carry out deportations.
1 December 1993 (239 words)
Refugees denied educational opportunities
London's Westminster city council is refusing education grants to asylum-seekers living in Britain in a move which could be in defiance of a House of Lords judgment given ten years ago.
1 December 1993 (103 words)
Edinburgh rebuffs Le Pen
Edinburgh became the first European city to turn down the chance of hosting a meeting of the Technical Group of the European Right, hosted by Jean-Marie Le Pen.
1 October 1993 (75 words)
Courts round-up
1 October 1993 (162 words)
Suicide following pressure of racism
Sohan Sanghera hung himself after being arrested by police in Gravesend and charged with carrying offensive weapons.
1 October 1993 (82 words)
Racist attacks - 140000 a year
Home Office minister Peter Lloyd told a Home Affairs Select Committee that racial attacks in the UK could be twenty times the reported level.
1 October 1993 (85 words)
Asylum-seeker was unlawfully killed
An inquest has returned an 'unlawful killing' verdict on 32-year-old asylum-seeker Omasese Lumumba, who died in Pentonville prison in 1991.
1 October 1993 (28 words)
Former home secretary found guilty of contempt of court
In an important constitutional court ruling, five law lords have found the former home secretary, Kenneth Baker, guilty of contempt of court for defying a court order banning the deportation of a Zairean asylum-seeker.
1 October 1993 (162 words)
Police officer jailed for attack on Rastafarian
A Manchester police officer has been jailed for 12 months after being found guilty of assaulting and wrongfully imprisoning Rastafarian Leslie Calder.
1 June 1993 (97 words)
Asian police officer wins damages
PC Joginder Singh Prem has won £25000 damages from Nottinghamshire Constabulary for racial discrimination and victimisation after it was shown that he was turned down for promotion to sergeant five times, despite passing the sergeants and inspectors exams.
1 June 1993 (61 words)
Death in custody
An inquest has ruled that a 31-year-old black prisoner who died in a Manchester police cell, covered in bruises from head to foot, was unlawfully killed.
1 June 1993 (143 words)
Far-Right attacks
Members of the British National Party stormed an anti-apartheid meeting in Blackburn, sending chairs flying, in what has been described as a 'disciplined and well-organised attack'.
1 June 1993 (55 words)