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Ten-year-old faces race rap

A 10-YEAR-OLD Holloway boy has been arrested for racially abusing and assaulting his neighbours.
The child and his brothers, aged 13 and 15, were picked up by police at their home near Liverpool Road following a string of complaints by Turkish, Punjabi and Asian neighbours.
The news comes two weeks after an eight-year-old boy robbed a student at knifepoint on the Highbury Estate.
Detective Sergeant Paul Kingdon, of Islington’s Community Safety Unit (CSU), said: “It is unusual to arrest someone at the age of 10 on these charges. In fact, even the 15-year-old would be the youngest we have arrested for these kinds of offences. But we may be able to charge them with eight or nine offences.”
The brothers were arrested on suspicion of racial harassment and common assault.
They have been bailed to return to Islington police station in late December and early January.
Racially aggravated offences carry “a heavy penalty” but anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos) and Acceptable Behaviour Contracts, where families are evicted from their homes, are also available to police when dealing with children in such cases.
The brothers were arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of Operation Athena, the Met’s crackdown on domestic violence and homophobic and racial hate crime.
Eleven people – all male – were arrested by 25 uniformed and plain clothes officers: five for race crime, five for domestic violence, one for domestic grievous bodily harm and one for homophobic crime.
A police van was also on hand to safely take away children involved in the domestic grievous bodily harm incident.
DS Kingdon said new legislation, where police do not have to rely on the witness testimony of domestic violence victims, is particularly helpful in securing a prosecution against violent partners.
 



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