Police in hate crime warning

Published on 06/08/2012 12:00

British Transport Police (BTP) have warned that hate crime “will not be tolerated” on the rail network after a man was jailed over an incident on an Edinburgh-bound train.

Peter Patterson, a Scot who lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was sent to prison for six months last week after appearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court charged with a racially aggravated breach of the peace.

Patterson, 29, racially abused an Indian family on a train between London and Waverley last month.

Chief Superintendent Ellie Bird said: “This sentence clearly underlines how serious BTP and prosecutors take hate crime of any kind on the rail network, which will just not be tolerated.”