What is a hate crime?

Hate crime is any incident which is a criminal offence and which is thought, by you or someone else, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on your race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other actual or seeming difference.

This can include:

• threats, bullying or intimidation
• threatening or offensive mail, texts or emails
• verbal abuse
• damage to property
• physical assaults.

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