As part of Pride Month, our CPS National Lead for Hate Crime, Lionel Idan, hosted a Hate Crime Round Table discussion alongside Saba Ali, Gender Equity and Hate Crime Team ESS Co-Founder, and Lionel's NPCC counterpart lead for Hate Crime, DCC Mark Hamilton, OBE and his police National Advisor, Paul Giannasi, OBE.

Under hate crime legislation the courts must pass increased sentences where prosecutors show evidence that offences either demonstrate or have been motivated by hostility towards a person’s race, religion, disability, transgender identity or sexuality. Below are examples of hate crime cases recently prosecuted by CPS North East, each of which resulted in a conviction and an uplifted sentence.

Case Study 1: Racist Hate Crime

Claire Walsh, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor, CPS London South, said: “The CPS has authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge Robert Alexander Stewart MP, 73, with a Racially Aggravated offence contrary to s5 of the Public Order Act and in the alternative, a non-aggravated section 5 offence under the same Act.

“These charges relate to an incident that took place on 14 December 2022. Mr Stewart will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 5 July 2023. 

Under the hate crime legislation, courts must treat offences more seriously where there is evidence that the offender demonstrated hostility on the basis of the victim’s actual or presumed race, religion, disability, transgender identity or sexual orientation, or the offence was motivated on the basis of hostility towards one of these characteristics.  Below are some examples of hate crime cases prosecuted by CPS Yorkshire and Humberside in April 2023 which resulted in a conviction and an uplifted sentence.

Under the hate crime legislation, courts must treat offences more seriously where there is evidence that the offender demonstrated hostility on the basis of the victim’s actual or presumed race, religion, disability, transgender identity or sexual orientation, or the offence was motivated on the basis of hostility towards one of these characteristics.  Below are some examples of hate crime cases prosecuted by CPS Yorkshire and Humberside in March 2023 which resulted in a conviction and an uplifted sentence.

The CPS in London held an event at Petty France on Thursday, 20 April to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence on the streets of south London on 22 April 1993. 

The Chief Crown Prosecutor (CCP) for London South, Lionel Idan, hosted an in-person conversation with Stephen’s father, Dr Neville Lawrence OBE, in the presence of more than 700 staff in London.