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NF PRESS OFFICER CAUSES POLICE TO ADMIT ATTACK WAS RACIAL

When I was tipped off regarding this racist attack by our Oldham organiser I immediately checked the Oldham Chronicle and found that the police would not treat this attack as racist.

This caused me to write to the GMP complaining and also stating that inaccuracies like this actually inflame racial tension.

I have just received the following email from GMP

Mr Linden,

We note your comments, submitted via email on 22 February.

We also have concerns about accuracy of the content of this article and Chief Superintendent Forber has raised these in a letter to the editor. This has been published today.

http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news-headlines/37321/attack-was-racially-motivated-say-police

Kind Regards

Clare Hunter
Assistant Head of Press Office
Corporate Communications Branch
Tel: 0161 856 2220
Mob: 07917 233592
Ext: 65954

POLICE have declared that a vicious assault in Westwood was racially motivated.

Four white teenagers were jumped by a group of seven Asian males, aged in their late teens, on Featherstall Road North last Wednesday.

The victims told the Chronicle they feared it was a racially-motivated attack.

But the GMP press office twice told the Chronicle, including when checks were made on Monday morning, that they did not believe there was a racial element and had classed the crime as common assault.

This led to complaints that Oldham Police was refusing to abide by requirements in the classification of race attacks as the definition states:

“A racist incident is any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person.”

New Chief Superintendent Tim Forber then wrote to the Chronicle to say the incident was being treated as a hate crime - but not at the behest of the victim.

The NF wishes to claim a part in the changing of the GMP’s attitude to these common anti-White racial attacks.

I wish also to thank C.S. Tim Forber for listening to common sense and saying it as it is, this will reassure the White population that they are being listened to and treated as victims.

The power of the pen is sometimes greater than that of the sword.

Tom Linden (NF Press and Publicity)

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