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Man and a woman sentenced to 12 month community orders, after yelling homophobic abuse in an ongoing neighbour dispute in Brighton. Lacey Lee (24) and her boyfriend Gary Corness (32) from Hadlow Close, Brighton were both convicted of public order offences, after the victim was subjected to the abuse

Those responsible for hate crime in Kent, Surrey and Sussex are much more likely to be convicted for their crimes than in other parts of the country. New figures show Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) South East, which handles these types of prosecutions in the three counties, has the second highest c

Defendants in Sussex are being handed stiffer sentences because they have committed a hate crime motivated by prejudice. A total of 47 criminal sentences were ‘uplifted’ in Sussex between January and March this year. Crimes which are eligible for an ‘uplifted’ sentence are any that are motivated ‘wh