I feel the PC brigade has been calling so many things a hate crime, for so long, which weren't, that it is now an automatic reaction. This has consequences. If there was no evidence, then why was the initial statement issued? So, I feel we can blame the PC crowd for this one. I did say bringing, not carrying out. Extremists are now a reality, and nothing should be done to inflame them without evidence. The previous vicious stabbing in Colchester 3 months before was of a vulnerable white male. There would seem to be zero basis for making the initial statement about Islamic dress, other than PC. If anything, the statement should have been about vulnerable persons in general. I'm not blaming them for the stabbing; but they've clearly caused the incitement for revenge stabbings by Islamic extremists.