The number of homophobic attacks more than doubled in the three months after the Brexit vote, with toxicity fostered by the EU referendum debate spreading beyond race and religion, new figures suggest. Statistics from the police have already documented a spike of hate crimes against ethnic minorities and foreign nationals. Few analysts predicted a rise in hate crime based on victims’ sexual orientation, however. The rise is proportionately higher than other hate crime rises in the wake of Brexit . However, only a quarter reported the last hate crime they experienced, suggesting a gap in the data collected by police and government departments.

Source: The Guardian October 08, 2016 19:36 UTC