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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 [...]