hate crime

The force added it was now also investigating reports of a hate crime on Friday 10 October and a threats to kill incident on Monday, 6 October.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Jewish and Muslim communities "continue to experience unacceptable levels of often violent hate crime".

"Today's hate crime statistics show that too many people are living in fear because of who they are, what they believe, or where they come from," she said.

In total, excluding the Met, there were 115,990 hate crime offences recorded by police in the year ending March 2025, up 2% from 113,166 for the previous 12 months.

Suresh Grover, founder of the anti-racist charity The Monitoring Group, said the figures do not give the full picture of hate crime experienced by some communities.