UK lawyers launch legal case against Met police for failing to halt “Crusade” protest targeting Muslims

Legal Action for Peace (LAfP), an organisation of lawyers and human rights advocates, today announced a major step in its legal challenge against the Metropolitan Police Service. The lawyers acting for LAfP sent a pre-action letter to the Commissioner of the Met, challenging the force’s decision to permit UKIP’s protest on 25th October which was framed as a “crusade” to “reclaim Whitechapel from the Islamists.” The lawyers claimed that although the Met allowed the protest to proceed, with a rerouted location, it failed in its statutory duties to protect the British Muslim community from hate speech and incitement to violence. Imran Khan & Partners said: “We have now served a Letter of Claim on the Metropolitan Police Service, putting them […]