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An alleged attack on a disabled man by two police officers may have been a disability hate crime, the local police and crime commissioner has told Disability News Service (DNS). Faruk Ali, who has autism and learning difficulties, was allegedly assaulted […]
A police force has refused to suspend two officers who have been accused of assaulting a disabled man and chasing him into his family home. Relatives of Faruk Ali say that he was attacked as he helped to return bins to […]
The government’s “fitness for work” contractor has failed to produce a single piece of evidence to back up its claim that it is withdrawing from the contract because of “death threats” against its staff. The claims were first reported by the […]
A leading police expert has called on the criminal justice system to do more to tackle disability hate crime. Superintendent Paul Giannasi, a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers’ (ACPO) hate crime group, was speaking to Disability News Service […]
Police say they are keeping “an open mind” about the motive for the “brutal” murder of a young disabled man who was stabbed to death in west London. Dean Mayley, from Northolt, died from a single stab wound to the chest, […]
The attorney general has agreed to ask the court of appeal to impose a tougher sentence on the owner of an ice-cream van business who carried out a series of violent attacks on a disabled man. Disabled activists have expressed frustration […]
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has admitted that its own barrister failed to follow instructions to ask for a series of violent attacks on a disabled man to be treated as disability hate crime. The case has once again frustrated hate […]
The treatment of people with learning difficulties should be “significantly improved” right across the criminal justice system, from arrest to sentencing, according to a new report. The report concludes that the needs of offenders with learning difficulties are going unnoticed when […]
New fears have been raised about the continuing failure of the criminal justice system to respond to disability hate crime, after a police force and prosecutors came to opposite conclusions about the same case. Craig Kinsella was kept as a slave […]
Doubts have been raised over the ability of the police complaints watchdog to carry out a proper investigation into the circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of a disabled man. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has so far refused to say […]