Chronology of Racist Incidents in the UK Since July 7 Subway Bombings

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UNITED KINGDOM

Racial violence after 7 July - week 13

By IRR News Team
http://www.irr.org.uk/2005/october/ha000018.html

6 October 2005, 12:00pm

Incidents of racial violence and harassment over the last two
weeks

4 October 2005: Police arrest three people on suspicion of
perverting the course of justice in connection with the
murder of Black teenager Anthony Walker in Huyton,
Merseyside. (BBC News 4.10.05)

30 September 2005: The Inquiry into the racist murder of
Zahid Mubarek at Feltham Young Offenders' Institute in 2000
is told that Muslim prisoners might need extra protection
from reprisal attacks from other prisoners following the
London bombings. (Guardian 30.9.05)

28 September 2005: 80 police officers arrest 15 people in
Bexley, south east London in early morning raids in
connection with a series of racist attacks. The arrests are
connected to five attacks which took place in the
Northumberland Heath area between 13-18 September, during
which two Black teenagers were punched and kicked, another
Black teenager was beaten about his head with lumps of wood
and a 20-year-old beaten over the head with a monkey wrench.
On 30 September, Kurt Harvey, 19, Tony Beattie, 18, and an
unnamed 17-year-old, are all charged with ABH offences.
Another man, Stephen Karitzis, 21, is charged with possession
of a pepper spray and stun gun. (BBC News 30.9.05, BBC News
1.10.05 and This is Local London 5.10.05)

28 September 2005: A Hindu meeting being held in a
Basingstoke hall is disrupted by racists who throw paving
slabs with swastikas scrawled on them through the windows; no
one is injured in the attack. (BBC News 30.9.05)

28 September 2005: A fire is set inside the Jamia mosque in
Braid Street, Swindon; no one is hurt and damage is limited.
In another earlier incident, racist graffiti was painted on
Shah Jelel Mosque and a Sikh temple in Kembrey Street,
Swindon. (BBC News 29.9.05)

27 September 2005: Police arrest a 27-year-old Widnes man and
an 18-year-old from Runcorn on suspicion of causing racially
aggravated criminal damage after a number of homes and
business in the Heath and Mersey areas of Runcorn were
targeted with racist graffiti. They are later bailed pending
further inquiries. (BBC News 28.9.05)

25 September 2005: A gang of 10 people surround a house in
Chard, Somerset, shouting racist abuse and throwing missiles
at the house which is occupied by a Brazilian family. (Chard
& Ilminster News 28.9.05)

25 September 2005: An Asian taxi driver, Imtiaz Hussain, has
the windscreen of his cab smashed and is attacked after
picking up four people in Nelson, Lancashire. Police later
arrest a 31-year-old man on suspicion of assault. (Nelson
Leader 30.9.05)

25 September 2005: A 53-year-old African man has his car
vandalised with spray paint. Police are treating this as
racially motivated since the man has been victimised in the
weeks after the London bombings, car windows have been
smashed and eggs have been thrown. (Cumbria News & Star
26.9.05)

24 September 2005: A 30-year-old Asian man in Sutton suffers
a cut to his eye and is left shaken after a two men taunt him
by asking him if is Muslim and a bomber; he is also punched
by one of the men. The attackers are described as White
skinheads. (IC Croydon 30.9.05 and Sutton Guardian 3.10.05)

24 September 2005: Police in Farnborough stop and search
children aged between 13 and 18 after racially motivated
fights between White and Nepalese youth in the area. (BBC
News 25.9.05)

23 September 2005: 17-year-old Adeel Abbas suffers a stab
wound to his leg after a gang of four White men launch an
unprovoked attack in Rochdale. The gang try to make eye
contact before one hits him in the face, they then all set
upon Adeel, with one holding his waist and another gripping
him in a headlock. Police have charged a 16-year-old in
connection with the attack and two others, aged 15 and 18,
have been bailed pending further inquiries. (Asian News
30.9.05 and Rochdale Observer 4.10.05

23 September 2005: Portsmouth News reports that Portsmouth
City Council is promising to evict people living in council
housing if they are racially abusive, after a rise in the
number of complaints of racist abuse. In the month after the
London bombings Portsmouth police received 53 complaints
compared to 32 in the same period last year. (Portsmouth News
23.9.05)

19 September 2005: A 37-year-old Asian man walking near
Barnes Common in South London is racially abused, attacked
with sticks and branches by two White men. The victim escapes
from his assailants only to be attacked again by another two
White men who again hit him with sticks and branches. When he
returns to his van he discovers his bag has been stolen.
(Richmond & Twickenham Times 23.9.05)

18 September 2005: A teenager from Laxey, Isle of Man is
attacked by two men after he objects to them racially abusing
his friend playing in an under-17s football match. He suffers
a cut lip and bruised back. (Isle of Man Today 27.9.05)

4 September 2005: A Kosovan doorman suffers gunshot wounds
after refusing entry to the Elbow Room bar in Chapel Market
to three White men. The men who are drunk are heard saying to
the Kosovan doorman and Black colleague 'We're British and
you're bloody foreigners', they return to shoot the doorman,
named only as Claude, in the back and shoulders; Claude is
described as being in a 'comfortable' condition in hospital.
( Islington Tribune 9.9.05)

22 July 2005: The Islamic Centre in Stirling which has been
vandalised a number of times has a window broken. (Stirling
Observer 27.7.05)

The Institute of Race Relations is monitoring racist
incidents. Please contact us if you have any information on
attacks committed in the wake of the London bombings.

Alternatively you can report racist incidents to the police
or the Islamic Human Rights Commission or Positive Action in
Housing. Both organisations have created an on-line reporting
forms that can be filled in anonymously, see the Islamic
Human Rights Commission on-line racist incident reporting
form and Positive Action in Housing on-line racist incident
reporting form.

The Institute of Race Relations is precluded from expressing
a corporate view: any opinions expressed are therefore those
of the authors.

Institute of Race Relations 2005

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Good points Ozellh20.