Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Faber View Post
I wouldn't describe your response as elaborating, but anyway: No I haven't at all forgotten, in fact I recall we had this discussion a couple of years ago. You know what a stickler for 'provenance' of accusations I am, but on this occasion I didn't need to do the 'legwork' on provenance I usually do, the Beeb did it for me!

'The way in which Foreigners were treated' was never especially drilled down into until (bless 'em) the BBC did some investigating on the subject as part of a series similar to 'More Or Less' but focussing on non-numeric public perception of significant events. The investigation found that although there was some low-level abuse at the time it was not Brexit related (not to say there's any excuse for it I will add), and that the two high-profile incidents, both described as 'Brexit-related murders' at the time were anything but. Of the two, the one I recall was the 'unprovoked' killing of Arkad Jozwik, which the dailies went Brexit-xenophobe-bonkers on, pointing the finger straight at 'post-Brexit hate', and winding the Polish community both here and in Poland up so much there were marches asking for 'Justice for Arkad'.

Turned out the Pole started the incident with an unprovoked drunken rant, and he just picked on the wrong fellah to rant at, the perp was a known (to the Police) violent offender. The trial noted it as NOT being a hate crime.

Many independant reports you can find around the net note that there was less interest in the incident, including the trial, once it was clear it wasn't a Brexit/hate related attack
I’m sorry, Andy...I obviously misunderstood your need for clarification and elaboration, and I wasn’t referring at all to the ‘Brexit related murders’ you speak of.

Anyway...if you won’t believe me maybe you’ll take more notice of the Nottingham University NICEP paper on ‘The Brexit Referendum and the rise of hate crime; conforming to the new norm.’

Amongst other things it provides evidence of the spike in hate crime in the immediate aftermath of the Referendum and how, despite a rise in populism throughout Europe, this rise appears to be ‘distinctive to the UK’.

I haven’t reproduced it here because it’s about seventy pages long. I’m sure you’ll be able to find it and it should give you plenty to ‘drill down’ into.