Hate Crimes Double
Youmanity reports on the latest UK hate crime figures, which have surged across the country.
Data from the Home Office has revealed that there were 94,098 hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales in 2017/18 - up by 17 per cent on the year before.
This annual increase rises to 40 per cent for religiously-aggravated hate crime, with crimes increasing from 5,949 to 8,336 in the last year alone. Since 2014/15, offences have soared 153 per cent from a total of 3,293.
The majority of these crimes - some 52 per cent - were directed at Muslims.
The Home Office noted that there were peaks in racially or religiously aggravated offences following terrorist attacks such as the Lee Rigby murder in July 2013 and the Westminster Bridge attack in March 2017.
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