Amber Rudd fell foul of the law over her speech to last year’s Tory conference in Birmingham outlining plans to make companies disclose how many foreign workers they employ. Her innocuous remarks were enough for an Oxford professor to report her to West Midlands Police for inciting racial hatred, even though he hadn’t actually heard the speech. That didn’t matter, since under Labour’s lazily drafted 2003 Criminal Justice Act, the definition of a hate crime is: ‘Any incident . . . which is perceived by the victim or any other person [my italics] as being motivated by prejudice or hate.’ This gave licence to any politically motivated malcontent to bring hate crime charges, even though they themselves were not the alleged victim. In Rudd’s case, the Old Bill had no option other than to mount an investigation. ...read
If the Home Secretary's not safe from the 'hate crime' mob - what chance have I got, asks RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
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