The York Press. “The man then left the station while the other members of his group boarded a train.”Authorities have released CCTV images of a man that could have information relevant to the police investigation.
The man had blonde hair and was wearing a blue button-up shirt.The case is just the latest in the continued growth of anti-LGBTQ+ violence in the U.K.Data from Vice World News found a 210 percent increase in homophobic hate crimes from 2014-2021.
In the same period, an increase of 332 percent was seen in transphobic hate crimes.The outlet reports that there were around 6,300 reports of hate crimes based on sexuality in 2014-2015 — the same year same-sex marriage became legal in the U.K.