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manchester evening news
'Critical' condition for man who confronted racist abuser
A 53-year-old man who confronted a drunken man who was racially abusing him was repeatedly punched to the ground leaving him in a critical condition with a bleed on the brain. Oldham attacker Graham Smith has been jailed for 18 months for the attack.
11 March 2010 (external article)
stoke sentinel Racist youths hurl beer bottles at delivery driver.
Zahid Zanan has been targeted by a gang of 15 youths as he returned to the takeway where he worked. Both Zahid and his partner have admitted to feeling more intimidated due to EDL demonstrations in the area.
4 March 2010 (external article)
liverpool daily post Police to ride school buses to save girls from racism
Police officers are being drafted on to Merseyside school buses to stop female Muslim pupils being racially abused after a series of verbal attacks on hijab-wearing girls.
4 March 2010 (external article)
manchester evening news Suspended sentence for dog attack and abuse
Clifford Nelson has received a 12-month suspended sentence after admitting charges of racially aggravated harassment for allowing his dogs to bite Jewish students and then racially abusing the volunteer medic who came to treat the victims in Salford.
16 February 2010 (external article)
asian news Life sentence for murder
Albanian, Amirjan Hysaj, has been jailed for life, with a minimum sentence of 16 years, after being found guilty of the murder of 31-year-old Kalvinder Singh who suffered fatal injuries in April 2004 in a fight at a Manchester takeaway.
15 February 2010 (external article)
mirfield reporter Arrests following racist attack on 16-year-old
Police have arrested two teenagers after a 16-year-old Asian student suffered a broken thumb after he was attacked outside his school by a White gang in Mirfield.
5 February 2010 (external article)
asian image Manchester: racist shoplifters walk free despite death of man
Three men, involved in shop-lifting at a Sainsbury's, in which staff were racially abused and attacked, have received 12-month community orders. The theft to the death of Javed Agha, though the CPS dropped any charges in connection with his death.
1 February 2010 (external article)
bolton news Arson murders could be racially motivated
Police appealing on the Crimewatch programme have revealed that an arson attack in June 2008 in Great Lever, Bolton, which killed a grandmother and her 4-year-old granddaughter, may have been racially motivated.
1 February 2010 (external article)
liverpool echo Woman jailed for abusing young boys
Tracy Rigby, 35, has been jailed for 40 days after being found guilty of racially abusing two young boys, both aged 11, in Kew, Liverpool.
1 February 2010 (external article)
lancashire evening post Three jailed for vicious attack at petrol station
Three men, cousins Robin and Christopher Beckett and Ryan Jermy, have been jailed for racially aggravated ABH and ABH following a vicious attack on a 40-year-old taxi driver at a petrol station in Preston.
1 February 2010 (external article)
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