17 April 2008
Director of Public Prosecutions v Johnson [2008] EWHC 509 (Admin), [2008] All ER (D) 371 (Feb)
Threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour accompanied by hostility, based partly on the victim’s presumed membership of a racial group, is a sufficient evidential basis for a charge of a racially aggravated offence, even if that hostility was also based partly on the victim’s duties as a parking attendant.
