The Sun Editor & Katie Hopkins face criminal investigation over ‘xenophobic’ column
David Dinsmore, editor of The Sun and Katie Hopkins have been reported to the Metropolitan Police following publication of an inflammatory column by Hopkins denouncing migrants as ‘cockroaches’.
The incendiary piece subsequently came to the attention of the Society of Black lawyers who duly penned a letter to the Metropolitan Police Commissioners Office calling for the pair to be investigated and for Met commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe to issue a public statement to ‘avoid such comments being made by any in the media’.
In an email society chair Peter Herbert wrote: “The recent comments by the Sun journalist Katie Hopkins, authorised for publication by her Editor and senior staff, are sadly some of the most offensive, xenophobic and racist comments I have read in a British newspaper for some years.
“Given the huge circulation of these comments in the Sun and in the media generally, the propensity for racial violence against people of African descent in the UK is obvious. We request that these matters be investigated as a matter of urgency and the case file be passed to the CPS for a decision to be made as to the merits of a prosecution.”
The society now plan to further escalate their action by formally petitioning the International Criminal Court to look into the matter.
So far 100 people have made complaints to the Independent Press Standards Organisation over the piece.