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The number of cases of disability hate crime prosecuted in court has plunged by nearly 40 per cent in just one year, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) figures have revealed. The fall appears to be the result of a steep fall in […]
Little progress has been made in the 12 years since a ground-breaking investigation exposed how disabled people were being “harassed, attacked, humiliated and even killed” because their lives were considered less valuable than others, says a new report. The extent of […]
Disabled campaigners who have fought for years to challenge the disability hate crime failings of the criminal justice system have welcomed reforms suggested by the Law Commission, despite frustration at the slow pace of change. The reforms suggested in a new […]
Disabled people have raised serious concerns about the rising tide of coronavirus-related disability hate crime, amid fears that this could increase even further when new laws on the wearing of face coverings go live tomorrow. From tomorrow (Friday), it will be […]
The social media platform Twitter has refused to explain why it left horrific examples of disability hate on its website for more than two weeks. Messages calling for disabled children to be murdered, “putting the weak to sleep” and stating that […]
One of southern England’s largest housing associations has been ordered to apologise to a disabled man after it failed to investigate complaints that he had been subjected to a campaign of disability hate crime and harassment by other tenants. Wheelchair-user John […]
An autistic man who brought a legal case against a police force for discrimination, after it twice detained him, has had his claim settled out of court. Daniel Smith had challenged the policies of Devon and Cornwall police because he believed […]
A new book by a disabled researcher has detailed the “horrifying” levels of disability hate crime that take place every day on public transport across the UK. David Wilkin says the results of his research are “sometimes startling and almost always […]
The Crown Prosecution Service has joined a leading disabled campaigner in raising concerns about a huge fall in the number of disability hate crime cases passed by police forces to prosecutors. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) annual hate crime report for […]
Police and prosecutors are facing questions over why they failed to treat the ordeal of a disabled teenager – who was kept as a slave for more than two years and subjected to brutal daily beatings – as a disability hate […]