ShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleOlivia IrelandBBCHate crime prosecutions are to be fast-tracked following a spate of recent antisemitic incidents, the director of public prosecutions has confirmed.
Stephen Parkinson has issued instructions to prosecutors in England and Wales, saying more needed to be done to clamp down on "daily incidents affecting the Jewish community, involving threats and abuse designed to cause fear and distress".
Parkinson said charges needed to be brought more quickly because it "is important law enforcement steps up and recognises we are in a period of crisis for the Jewish community" .
It comes after two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, and a number of arson incidents in areas with large Jewish communities.
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