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Baker rejects call for racist violence offence (1)

01 January 1991

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Baker rejects call for racist violence offence
artdoc May=1992

Home secretary, Kenneth Baker, has rejected demands from the
Commission for Racial Equality for a specific offence of racial
violence. His spokesman said that existing laws were adequate,
but a spokesperson for the C.R.E. disagreed, saying that:
"Existing laws covering racial violence are clearly
ineffective." Home Office figures suggest that `racially
motivated incidents' increased from 4,383 in 1988 to 6,359 in
1990, but it is widely accepted that these figures grossly
underestimate the problem.
Guardian, 17.1.92.

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