Daily Archives: 03/12/2011

Hate crime linked to newspaper stories of fraud and ‘scroungers’

Disabled activists have linked the conviction of a man who called his disabled neighbour a “benefit scrounger” to hostile stories and comments that have come from the media and the government.
Magistrates used disability hate crime laws to increase the sentence imposed on David McGregor, who had waged a three-month hate campaign against Peter Greener.
South Tyneside [...]

Conference ‘excluded disabled people in poverty’

Organisers of a conference aimed at addressing disability poverty made it too difficult for disabled people experiencing poverty themselves to attend the event, it has been claimed.
The conference was organised by three leading disability organisations, Disability Alliance (DA), RADAR and the National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL), and was held at the central London offices [...]