Scotland Yard to probe leaked file on anti-Semitism cases in party

SCOTLAND YARD is reviewing a leaked file on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, which it is claimed contains 21 cases that should have been reported to the police.

LBC received an internal Labour dossier detailing 45 cases involving messages posted by party members on social media, including one which read: “We shall rid the Jews who are a cancer on us all.”

The broadcaster passed the leaked material to former senior police officer Mak Chishty, who said that 17 instances should have been reported to the police for investigation, and another four were potential race hate crimes.

These were the message detailed above; the sharing of a link to an allegedly anti-Semitic blog, and an entry referring to “a Zionist Extremist MP ... who hates civilised people, about to get a good kicking”.

The fourth related to a party member being accused of putting a child through “10 years of hell”, using racial slurs against him and referring to him as “Jew boy”.

It was also alleged that the member had chased a girl, aged six or seven, around with air freshener, saying she smelled of curry and calling her “a chocolate monkey”.

Speaking during a call-in on LBC yesterday, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said: “Hate crime is something we take very, very seriously.

“If somebody makes an allegation to us which contains something like that, absolutely we will take it seriously, we will scope it, we will see whether a crime has taken place.”

A listener called Gideon said he would make a formal report of hate crime to the force.