Police won't act over swastika

Mail on Sunday report on LAAS complaint

Swastika sent to "leading campaigner against anti-Semitism"

Mail on Sunday article about LAAS co-director Alex Hearn's complaint, after he and others were sent a swastika image by someone working at Cambridge University. He frequently posted them in reply to objections over rising antisemitism, and even the death of a Holocaust survivor.

The article also quotes Alex Hearn:

Police refuse to prosecute over swastika sent to Jewish students because it is 'not offensive enough' - amid social media hate probe into columnist

Police refused to prosecute a man who sent an image of the Star of David intertwined with the Nazi swastika to Jewish students and activists because they deemed it was not offensive enough.

Cambridgeshire Constabulary decided that the image, which was sent to the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) and a leading campaigner against anti-Semitism, was not 'grossly offensive' and therefore not a crime.

Last night, it also emerged that an NCHI stays on a person's police file for six years, even if it is recorded against a child.

The record can stay on longer – for life – if the recording force decides to keep it. In the latest case, a man used his account on X to send offensive messages to the UJS and Alex Hearn, of Labour Against Anti-Semitism, last month.

The UJS had written online messages about the increase in anti-Semitism, particularly on university campuses.

Mr Hearn said:

'If posting a swastika, the symbol of evil and the Holocaust, at Jews is not grossly offensive, then nothing is.

'Using the swastika to intimidate Jews, only for the police to diminish its impact and message is not only ridiculous but offensive. This two-tier racism is making a mockery of law, order and justice.'

Full article here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14091359/Police-refuse-prosecute-swastika-sent-Jewish-students.html