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A leading campaigner has called for a strategy to tackle “insidious” online posts that allow individuals to make “discriminatory and hostile statements” about disabled people without being punished by the criminal justice system. Stephen Brookes a coordinator of the Disability Hate […]
A police force has launched an internal review of its treatment of disabled people, after it was forced to refer two separate incidents involving young autistic men to the police watchdog. One case referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) […]
A police force already under investigation for disability hate crime failures when dealing with a young autistic man is now facing another complaint after officers ignored his family’s plea to investigate a second brutal attack. Daniel Smith was only finally able […]
A young autistic man was arrested and held in a police cell for nine hours without medical treatment after he was the victim of a vicious disability hate crime in a local park. Daniel Smith (pictured) was only finally able to […]
Disabled people in England and Wales are now almost three-and-half times more likely than non-disabled people to be a victim of serious violent crime, according to new research that has been described as “a wake-up call to politicians”. The new analysis […]
Disability hate crime campaigners have welcomed a judge’s decision to jail two members of police staff whose failures allowed the murder of a disabled man who had begged officers for protection. Avon and Somerset police constable Kevin Duffy and community support […]
More than one in seven people have witnessed a disability hate crime or incident in the last year, according to a new survey released to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Disabled campaigners say the figures, published by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, […]
The conviction of two police employees for misconduct in the lead-up to the murder of a disabled man who had begged officers for protection from his killer proves the need to take disability hate crime more seriously, say campaigners. Avon and […]
A leading disability hate crime campaigner has blamed the government’s anti-benefits rhetoric for a verbal attack on the partner of a wheelchair-using Coronation Street actor. Cherylee Houston, who plays Izzy Armstrong in the soap, revealed on Twitter this week that a […]
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is facing fresh calls to quit or be fired after suggesting in the House of Commons that disabled people were not “normal”. Duncan Smith (pictured) told MPs during work and pensions questions this week […]