Source: Dawn
Police data in the United Kingdom shows a sharp increase in hate crimes in Britain’s most ‘Eurosceptic’ areas following the Brexit vote earlier this year,The Independent reported.
In areas where voters opted to ‘Leave’ the European Union, data shows consistent doubling and tripling of hate crime which surpasses the average nationwide increase of 57 per cent in hate crimes reported by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) following the referendum.
The NPCC said it had received over 6,000 reports of hate crimes in the four weeks after June 16. NPCC head Mark Hamilton said earlier this month that he believed the debate surrounding the referendum was responsible for the inflated figures.
Public harassment was the most common crime recorded, but dozens of racially or religiously motivated assaults which involved bodily harm and beatings, arson, death threats, threatening letters, criminal damage and possession of a bladed weapon are also among the reported crimes.
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