Hundreds of violent attacks on Liverpool's LGBT+ population remain unsolved as the number of reported hate crimes continues to steadily rise.
Between 2019 and August 2022, Merseyside police received 1,804 reports of both violent and non-violent LGBT+ hate crimes in the city. Some 82 of these reports (4.5%) resulted in charges being brought, with 50 of these being made by post.
Andi Herring, CEO and Co-founder of LCR Pride Foundation, said: "Any increase in hate crime is something that should be taken seriously, and prosecution rates are currently lower than we would expect and wish them to be. We understand that there are likely to be multiple reasons for low prosecution rates, including the current political state of the country has led to actual increases in hate crime and division in communities, reported or unreported."
