Bristol City Council has apologised after being accused of institutional racism in the case of a murdered Iranian man.
A Safer Bristol Partnership report said there was ‘evidence of both discriminatory behaviour and institutional racism’ in the council’s handling of Bijan Ebrahimi, who was beaten to death and set on fire by neighbour Lee James in July 2013.
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