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Police charges expose great bigotry divide
The full extent of Scotland's sectarian shame has been revealed in a new report which shows offences of bigotry are up to 60 times more likely in Glasgow than much of the rest of the country.Official Crown Office figures obtained by Scotland show that one in 500 people in Glasgow have been charged with a religiously aggravated offence since 2003, when the new offence was introduced.
That compares with a figure of one in 29,000 in the Grampian region, where only eight incidents have been recorded in four years.
The figures were compiled following new laws, introduced in 2003, which allow the courts to increase a punishment for an offence if it can be proven the crime was motivated by religious hatred.
Full story at Scotland on Sunday.
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