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		</div><p>Homophobic hate crimes reported to police have more than doubled in the past five years – but just 8% now result in prosecutions, new figures suggest.</p>
<p>Reports of homophobic abuse recorded by UK police forces soared from 5,807 in 2014/15 to 13,530 in 2018/19, according to the data.</p>
<p>But the number of prosecutions dropped from 1,157 to 1,058 over the same period – from 20% of all reports to 8%.</p>
<p>The figures were obtained by <i>BBC Radio 5 Live</i> Investigations under Freedom of Information laws.</p>
<p>Full responses to the request were received from 38 of the UK’s 46 forces, with partial data from Police Scotland not included in the analysis.</p>
<p>Lee Broadstock, the secretary of the national LGBT police network, said people now feel more confident to report hate crimes, but lower level incidents are difficult to prosecute.</p>
<p><em>“We have seen an increase in confidence in victims to report it to us and I think that’s where that increase has come from,”</em> he told <i>BBC Breakfast</i>.</p>
<p><em>“We have improved confidence of people to report but they are reporting some of the lower-level incidents, some of the shouting in the streets, a lot of the online hate is being reported to us.</em></p>
<p><em>“Some things are proving a lot more difficult for us to take forward, especially with online hate, such as (on) Twitter…</em></p>
<p><em>“It’s very difficult to get that user account from Twitter because it’s based in the US so it’s very difficult for us to prosecute.”</em></p>
<p>The figures show reports to West Yorkshire Police and South Yorkshire Police have increased more than five-fold in the past five years, from 172 to 961 and 73 to 375 respectively.</p>
<p>But the proportion that resulted in a charge or summons fell from 19% to 4% in West Yorkshire and from 10% to 3% in South Yorkshire over the period.</p>
<p>The Metropolitan Police, Britain’s largest force, saw reports rise from 1,561 in 2014/15 to 2,315 in 2018/19, as the number of cases leading to a charge or summons fell from 246 to 165 over the five years.</p>
<p>Reports to Greater Manchester Police increased from 423 to 1,159 as the number resulting in prosecutions fell from 82 to 50.</p>
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