Shadow sports minister Lucy Powell calls for misogyny to be classified as hate crime

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'Shadow sports minister Lucy Powell has told Sky Sports News there needs to be a change in the law for misogyny to be classified as a hate crime so that it is treated as seriously as racism and homophobia.
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"Women don't have the protection that they should have against this rising trend in misogyny," Powell told Sky Sports News.

"It has proliferated online. [Online influencers], really get that 'fresh meat' of young men whipped up about these issues and turning that into really horrible behaviour offline as well.

"Not only do we need to change the law but we need to have a really serious culture change here so that women can enjoy football and enjoy sport in the way that men can.

A special report from the Law Commission, a body which advises the government on how laws should be amended and modernised, suggests that making misogyny a hate crime could actually lead to a fall in prosecutions because the threshold for a successful conviction would be made that much higher.

Rape Crisis agrees, saying anything that might lead to a "two-tier" assessment of rape and sexual assault would be hugely damaging.'