Police in hate crime warning
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.
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.”