BY RICHARD WHEATSTONE

 

reports to the National Police Chiefs’ Council have risen significantly as its chair warns migrants are reporting verbal abuse, anti-migrant leafleting and verbal assaults

An explosion of racist and xenophobic abuse on the streets of Britain since last week’s Brexit vote has seen hate crime reports soar by more than 400 per cent.

The National Police Chiefs’ Council revealed it has received 331 hate crime reports to its national online portal in the last week – compared to a weekly average of 63.

In a bleak warning, Sara Thornton, chair of the NPCC, said officers have experienced “an increase in community tension directed at the migrant community since the referendum”.

Reports of racist and xenophobic attacks and graffiti have swept Britain since the decision to leave the European Union last Thursday.

Ch Con Thornton said: “Like the vast, vast majority of people, I have been shocked and disgusted at some the cases of racial or anti-immigrant abuse that have been reported this week.”

 

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