Hawzah News Agency - Anti-Muslim hate crimes have increased across Avon and Somerset and the number of reported hate crimes has also increased, according to police.

Police figures state that the number of hate crimes reported increased by 9% from 2016 to 2018.

In 2018, police registered 3,324 hate crimes up from 3,025 in 2016.

More than 58% of the crimes were racially motivated, 6% motivated by religion, 10% motivated by sexual orientation, 9.2% were disablist hate crimes, 2% were transgender hate crimes, and 5.7% were gender motivated crimes.

From September 2017 to August 2019, police logged 159 anti-Muslim hate crime victims representing 47% of all religious hate crimes in the area.