Most of the recorded crimes were violence against the person, public-order offences or criminal damage and arson.
Sometimes a person can be targeted for more than one of these at the same time - for example, someone attacked for being both Asian and Muslim or abused for being gay and transgender.
About two-fifths of these targeted Muslims, while the second most commonly targeted religious group was Jewish people.'Speaks volumes' "The rise in all kinds of hate crime - with racially motivated hate crime being the highest - speaks volumes about attitudes towards minoritised people in England and Wales. There can be no room for this kind of behaviour in modern Britain."
"Some will try to say this increase is just showing that the LGBT+ community's trust in the police is improving - that this is not an increase in incidents but in people coming forward," she said.
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