Month: September 2025
Police seek white male suspect and are treating incident as a hate crime after ‘traumatised’ victim hit three times
A nine-year-old girl was shot with an airgun in what is being treated as a racially aggravated assault in Bristol, said police, who have increased patrols in the area.
The victim, who has been left “traumatised”, was hit three times by a pellet and the white male suspect, thought to be 17 to 18 years old, shouted racially abusive language at the girl, Avon and Somerset police said.
Graffiti was found in area accessible only to officers and staff at Charing Cross police station in late August
The Metropolitan police have launched a criminal investigation into one of their own police stations after racist graffiti was found daubed on a wall to which only officers and staff have access.
Graffiti containing the N-word is alleged to have been found written on a toilet wall at Charing Cross police station in central London. It was spotted and reported by an officer on 29 August, just after Notting Hill carnival.
