There has been a steady increase in the number of convictions for hate crimes in the UK in the last four years.

A new report shows that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is prosecuting more hate crimes, more successfully and with more defendants pleading guilty than ever before.

She was caught on the camera racially abusing passengers on the Central Line on 23 January 2012. After the video surfaced on the You Tube, she has been arrested by the police.

Facing a criminal charge over accusations of making a racial slur during an October match, Captain of England’s national soccer team and the powerful club Chelsea John Terry has been stripped of England captaincy.

Victims of hate crime, racial abuse and others can now find solace in the fact that justice is being done to them by keeping a track of police investigations.

From May 2012, they  will be able to use www.police.uk  to see what happens after a crime has occurred in terms of a police action or a justice outcome.