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Man Due In Court To Face Whiteley Hate Crime Charge

By Times Reporter in Crime News on February 1, 2023

A man is due in court following an investigation into a hate crime in Whiteley.

Police received a report that a member of staff in Marks & Spencer, Whiteley Shopping Centre, was threatened with violence, assaulted, and racially abused on Tuesday 12 July 2022.

Following enquiries conducted by the Winchester Greater Neighbourhoods Policing Team, 51-year-old Mark Andrew Taylor, of Thorni Avenue in Fareham will appear at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court tomorrow to face charges of racially aggravated assault by beating, and assault by beating.

A 41-year-old woman who was previously arrested as part of this investigation has been released with no further action.

Picture: facebook.com/mandswhiteley

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