[2004] EWHC 3112 (Admin)

A racially aggravated offence could be committed by the demonstration of hostility in the absence of the victim of the substantive offence. The effect of the ordinary, plain meaning of the words used in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.28(1)(a) was that hostility had to be demonstrated immediately before or after the commission of the substantive offence.

DC (Tuckey LJ, Field J)

21/12/2004