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Three years later, Lee has not fully recovered and suffers memory lapses, while his powers of speech are still affected. For his mother, Margaret Massey, there is little doubt that the police inquiry was hindered by political correctness because officers feared that reporting a white man had been so brutally attacked by an asylum seeker would further fuel racial tensions following several such brawls in the area. ()

“The police let 13 members of the gang go free, even though there was evidence,” she said last week. “If our Lee had run over one of the Iraqis he would have been arrested right away and sent to prison for the rest of his life. The police are nervous when white people are attacked.”

Other white victims of violence did not survive. Christopher Yates had been out celebrating a birthday with a group of friends in London and, concerned about their safety, insisted on walking some of the women he was with to a bus stop during a cool November evening last year.

Without warning, the 30-year-old data inputter was viciously assaulted by a gang of drunken Asian men — Sajid Zulfiqar, Zahid Bashir and Imran Maqsood — who stamped on his head, smashing every bone in his face and killing him.

After the brutal murder, Zulfiqar shouted in Urdu: “We have killed the white man — that will teach an Englishman to interfere in Paki business.” Despite this, the three were never convicted for committing a race crime — which would have carried a heavier sentence.

Gavin Hopley, 19, was kicked to death following an attack involving up to eight Asian men in Oldham in February 2003. Six men were convicted of violent disorder and theft offences, but nobody has been convicted of his murder.

An Asian gang was also responsible for the violent killing of 17-year-old Ross Parker, who was savagely stabbed with hunting knives during an attack in Peterborough in 2001. And David Lees, 23, was mowed down during a fight between whites and a gang of Asians in Prestwich, Manchester, only last month.

In the wake of the Donald trial, community leaders have been left casting around for scapegoats. Ashraf Anjum, president of Glasgow’s central mosque, blames the fact that young Asians are turning their backs on the Muslim faith.

“For these people, discos are more appealing. Too many kids are standing around on street corners with nothing to do. ”

Easy access in the West to pornography and to computer games that glorify violence are also blamed, as is a failure to invest in facilities that would give young Asian men something to do.

“It wasn’t Pakistani culture that moulded Kriss Donald’s killers,” says Ayub Khan, chairman of the Multi-Faith Coalition, who lives in Pollokshields and was randomly attacked with a cricket bat by a member of Imran Shahid’s gang. “They fell foul of aspects of western culture such as binge- drinking and womanising.”

Imran Azam, 26, grew up in Glasgow’s West End and sees young Asians growing up in their own world, cut off from white Scotland.

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