Practice and Procedure

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS v HOWARD (2008)

PUBLISHED February 7, 2008
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[2008] EWHC 608 (Admin)

An offence under the Public Order Act 1986 s.5 was not racially aggravated pursuant to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.28(1)(b) where, despite the use of racially offensive words, the offence was motivated not by hostility towards members of a racial group but by hostility towards the individual victims of the offence.

DC (Moses LJ, Sullivan J)

07/02/2008

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