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Barrow woman arrested after man stabbed

A Barrow woman has been arrested after a man was stabbed in what police said could have been a racially motivated attack. Officers were called to a house on Westway, Barrow, at 1835 BST on Thursday after reports that a 38-year-old man had been stabbed in the neck. The man [...]

by × May 12, 2010 × Comments are Disabled

News and Events, North East, Regions

Racist thugs attacked elderly man face jail term

TWO teenagers face jail for a racial attack on the elderly father of a Ponteland restaurant owner. Anthony Thompson and Nathan West left Abdolkhalegh Ziaei, 67, needing more than five hours of hospital treatment when they assaulted him outside Lorenzo’s Pizza shop in Ponteland. The Ziaei family said they were [...]

by × April 26, 2010 × Comments are Disabled

Far Right, News and Events, North East, Regions

POLICE PROBE AFTER THE BNP PARADES FAKE SOLDIER WALKER

A CONTROVERSIAL BNP election candidate is being investigated by police after he posed as a soldier. Adam Walker wore desert fatigues while campaigning alongside the far-right party’s leader, Nick Griffin. But Walker, 41 – who is standing in Bishop Auckland, County Durham – is no longer a serving member of [...]

by × April 26, 2010 × Comments are Disabled

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Pair facing prison for arson attempt

TWO women are facing lengthy prison sentences – one for a campaign of harassment against asylum- seekers and the other for trying to set fire to a house where immigrants lived. Susan Oliver, 33, and her friend Natasha Shields, 18, sobbed in the dock at Teesside Crown Court yesterday when [...]

by × February 2, 2010 × Comments are Disabled

Law, Law, Research and Policy, Lawrence Report, News and Events, North East, Regions

Race row magistrate to keep job

A Sunderland magistrate who used the term “Paki shop” in court is to keep her job despite Justice Secretary Jack Straw recommending she be sacked. Carol Robson made the comment during a hearing at the city’s magistrates’ court in June 2008 as she was sentencing a shoplifter.  She told the [...]

by × January 5, 2010 × Comments are Disabled

North East

Man, 22, admits ‘racist’ website

A supermarket worker who set up an internet website which had undertones of racism and homophobia has narrowly escaped a jail sentence. Andrew Love, of Falkirk, mocked blacks, muslims, homosexuals, the disabled and other minority groups. In a case believed to be the first of its kind in Scotland, Love, [...]

by × November 16, 2009 × Comments are Disabled

News and Events, North East

Drunken dup spared jail for violent attack in Middlesbrough

AN EX-SOLDIER and his friend who launched a violent racist assault in Middlesbrough town centre have escaped a spell behind bars. Former squaddie Andrew Allen and partner in crime Darren Gouldthorpe repeatedly punched and kicked Ahmad Reza Saljosh until he was bleeding, Teesside Crown Court heard. read full story here

by × November 5, 2009 × Comments are Disabled