Police refuse to investigate racist letter to lecturer
Manchester Evening News|November 30, 2021
PROFESSOR SPEAKS OUT AFTER RECEIVING APPALLING MESSAGES
NICOLE WOOTTON-CANE
Police refuse to investigate racist letter to lecturer

A UNIVERSITY lecturer and dad of three is speaking out after receiving horrific racist letters - that Greater Manchester Police are refusing to investigate.

Professor Christopher Jackson, a geologist at the University of Manchester, was told to 'go live in the Caribbean' and that 'blacks like you are a total disgrace!

If you read that letter out, if you shouted it at somebody outside a pub, that would be threatening, Prof Jackson told the M.E.N: “But the most depressing thing for me is that it's kind of expected.

This story is from the November 30, 2021 edition of Manchester Evening News.

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