CPS admits it must to more to secure prosecutions against perpetrators of disability hate crime.

An official from the Crown Prosecution Service has today acknowledged that more must be done to tackle disability hate crime. Joanna Perry from the Equality and Diversity Unit said that the CPS ‘could raise its game and [...] better identify where there is hostility against disabled people’. This follows several high profile cases, such as that of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter Francesca, where it was not recognised that the victims were being targeted because of their disability. Read more.

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