The head of a leading Liverpool LGBTQ+ charity says the high rates of unresolved hate crimes in the city 'comes as no surprise' as the country faces an 'endemic' of discrimination and intolerance.
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.
Of 1,642 homophobic hate crimes reported in the past three years, only 79 resulted in a charge (4.8%). Of 162 transphobic hate crimes reported, only three resulted in charges (1.8%).