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Hate crime investigation launched after seven taxi drivers 'suffer racial abuse'

A hate crime investigation has been launched Credit: PA

A hate crime investigation has been launched after seven taxi drivers reported being racially abused by two men in Northampton town centre.

Northamptonshire Police said the drivers were waiting for fares in Mercers Row when the two approached the group and became racially offensive.

The first man was 6ft with a stocky build and he had square-rimmed black glasses. He was wearing a blue jumper, cargo trousers and tanned work boots which looked to be steel toe-capped. He also had tattoos on his knuckles, which was in writing.

The second man was white, 6ft with a tanned complexion and white hair. He was wearing a light checked shirt and blue trousers.

Both men spoke with Irish accents and may have been drinking, but not to such an extent they did not know what they were saying or doing.

– Northamptonshire Police statement

Police are treating the incident, which happened at 6.50pm on Saturday (June 10), as a hate crime.