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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Anthony France

Children as young as nine being probed by police for classroom ‘non-crime hate incidents’

New statistics revealed number of children investigated over school jibes (PA) - (PA Wire)

A nine-year-old who called a primary school classmate a “retard” is among thousands of people investigated by police for non-crime hate incidents, according to reports.

Forces also recorded a row where two secondary schoolgirls who said that another pupil smelt “like fish”.

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