A few weeks ago in France there was a sickening story about a Jew who was tortured for weeks and finally left to die after being set on fire. Despite weeks of screams, more than a dozen people being involved and the police investigating, nobody ever helped or reached out to authorities. Now from the UK another murder that appears to be race related. Is Europe going to wake up to hate crimes and modern-day lynchings or will they continue to ignore the problem? There is such a massive problem across Europe and so little seems to be done about it regardless of the country.
Northumbria Police had promised community leaders on Tyneside an exhaustive investigation into the murder of Lee Phipps, a photographer who had highlighted race-hate crimes.
Mr Phipps, 31, whose mother has Somalian roots, was found stabbed to death on a doorstep in South Shields, South Tyneside, on Thursday afternoon, after leaving the home he shared with her to photograph the snow-covered Cleadon Hills.
His previous actions against racists in the area have included photographing a gang which allegedly gave Nazi salutes to his mother three years ago. He was taken to hospital after they attacked him
