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RACE-HATE crimes are increasing on the railways, figures showed yesterday, with four reported to police every day last year.
British Transport Police recorded a total of 1,468 allegations of racially or religiously aggravated offences in 2014 — a rise of more than 100 compared to the 1,364 in 2013 and a slightly larger jump from the 1,351 in 2012.
The figures mean that the number of reports of incidents with a racial or religious element on trains or at stations increased by around a twelfth (8.7 per cent) over three years.
Some 232 of last year’s reported offences involved violence, including 185 racially aggravated common assaults which did not cause an injury and 42 racially or religiously aggravated assaults causing actual bodily harm.
“De-staffed stations and over-stretched and over-crowded services are core factors in this increase in racially motivated incidents as far as our members are concerned,” said rail union RMT leader Mick Cash.
