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Apologies- I wasn’t aware it was a private conversation 🤷🏻‍♂️ No - otherwise I wouldn’t have explained it - I was responding to an earlier post that assumed it would automatically be decided in court whether a hate crime occurred - there seems to be an assumption that if the Police report a...

I understand your point - but the way you illustrate it seems a bit too hypothetical - how the media reports incidents influences public attitudes of course but the media are very unlikely to lead with a victim’s vulnerability (like someone being transgender) - that highly personal information...

Er, yes as I literally already outlined in detail above on the matter of evidence in response to another post, that seemed not to take that into consideration.😏 One can not assume that just because the police have reported this particular incident as a hate crime, it will automatically be...

Yes, of course I agree to that - morally there is a difference (which makes the loss harder to bear) - but, in this particular sentence, I meant no difference physically - the victim is still dead and the family have still suffered an unimaginable physical loss so please take the comment in the...

You are assuming it will get through the CPS stage - (see my post above) Again, it is up to the Police and CPS whether it even gets to court - the Court can’t bring the hate element into sentencing unless the Police and CPS have already decided there is enough evidence of a hate crime being...

There’s no difference for the victim or the victim’s family if someone is murdered because of a characteristic. The victim is still dead and the family still bereft . However, there is a public policy aspect to having hate crime legislation in any society that recognises the equal rights of its...