Hate crime in England and Wales rises for first time in three years
Hate crime in England and Wales rises for first time in three years
The number of hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales has risen for the first time in three years, including increases in race and religiously motivated offences, Home Office figures show.
There were 115,990 hate crime offences in the year ending March, up 2% from 113,166 the previous year - but offences recorded by the Metropolitan Police are not included in this year's figures due to changes in how the force records crimes.
Religious hate crimes targeted at Muslims rose by 19%, with a spike following the Southport murders and riots that followed last summer, the Home Office said.
The number of religious hate crimes directed at Jewish people fell by 18% in the year to March.
However, the report says "caution is needed" with those figures as they exclude the Met's data, which recorded "40% of all religious hate crimes targeted at Jewish people in the last year".
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Jewish and Muslim communities "continue to experience unacceptable levels of often violent hate crime".
"Today's hate crime statistics show that too many people are living in fear because of who they are, what they believe, or where they come from," she said.
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