Chinese people living in the UK have described being punched, spat at, robbed and verbally abused
He said he was recently racially abused by a woman on the streets of London, who shouted ‘F*** your f****** virus, take it home with you’.Sheffield Hallam student Michael Chiu, 22, who is from the UK, said he was subjected to racist abuse about coronavirus by people in a car who threw fruit at him.
The hate crime figures were published after Sky News sent a Freedom of Information request to the UK’s 45 territorial police forces and British Transport Police . Most forces revealed details of hate crimes recorded against Chinese victims only, while some provided details of offences against people of South East Asian origin.Forces revealed 267 offences were recorded in the first three months of 2020, compared to 375 hate crimes throughout the whole of 2019 and 360 offences in 2018.
Police in Merseyside said in one instance, an offender ran off with a person’s face mask before returning and punching the victim in the face. British Transport Police said one person was punched in the jaw five times while the offender shouted ‘f***ing Chinese’, and another victim was spat on.
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