Five Labour members could be charged with hate crimes over anti-Semitism including branding Jews a ‘cancer’, reveals Met Police chief Cressida Dick
- Scotland Yard has sent the five most serious cases to prosecutors to consider
- Dossier of anti-Semitic jokes and threats by Labour members emerged in 2018
- Met unit investigating hate crimes has passed on files to CPS in five of six cases
Five Labour members are waiting to hear if they will be charged over alleged anti-Semitic rants including calling Jews a ‘cancer’ and a sick joke about murdering Jewish people in ‘chambers’ being too expensive because of gas prices, it was revealed today.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told LBC that six people were arrested last year as part of the inquiry – and that five files have been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service by her detectives.
The investigation was prompted by an internal Labour dossier detailing anti-Semitic messages on social media allegedly posted by party members, which was obtained by the radio station in 2018.
Reports at the time suggested the documents included details of 45 incidents involving 21 members, including one who allegedly wrote: ‘We shall rid the Jews who are a cancer on us all.’
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told LBC today that the CPS has files on five Labour members accused of anti-Semitism
The London-based radio station handed this dossier of evidence to the Met in 2018. It included the names of 21 Labour members now reduced to five at risk of prosecution
A serving Labour councillor is accused of inflicting ‘ten years of hell’ on a child, calling him a ‘Jew Boy.’
Another grim message blasted an unnamed: ‘Zionist extremist MP who hates civilised people about to get a good kicking’.
In another anti-Semitic missive a Labour member allegedly wrote: ‘As for the Jews… no need for gas chambers because gas is so expensive and we need it in England’.
A message by another Labour member followed calling the 6million murdered in the Holocaust a ‘highly implausible’ figure – and a fellow party supporter allegedly called jailing a former Nazi SS guard at Auschwitz ‘a disgusting travesty of justice’.
The CPS will soon make a decision about whether to prosecute.
Dame Cressida told LBC host Nick Ferrari: ‘It is for the CPS to decide. It is a very complex crime type, to be honest – there is a lot for them to look at and a lot for them to consider as to whether there is either sufficient evidence to charge and whether it is in the public interest so to do.’
The Labour Party has previously welcomed the police investigation and said: ‘Anti-Semitism has no place in our society and we are committed to challenging and campaigning against it in all its forms.’
Dame Cressida told Nick Ferrari that cases involving abusive or racist post online are complex and difficult to prove
One Labour member was active on an American neo-Nazi website sharing bizarre and offensive comments about Jewish people
Details of four of the five people emerged in 2019.
In May detectives probing alleged criminal anti-Semitism within the Labour Party arrested a 44-year-old is being quizzed in suspicion of publishing or distributing material likely to stir up racial hatred after being detained in Newham, east London.
Three others were also held on suspicion of publishing or distributing material likely to stir up racial hatred.
They were a man in his 50s, arrested in Birmingham on March 7, a second man in his 50s held in Tunbridge Wells on March 14 and a woman in her 70s in Wandsworth, south London, on March 21.
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