Ofcom receives complaints over GB News item on defendants’ ‘foreign-sounding names’

Lib Dem MP says way figures were compiled on non-British-sounding' surnames in court was frankly racist'

GB News has been accused of risking inflaming tensions over crime committed by migrants after presenting unscientific research that counted the number of defendants with foreign-sounding names".

Ofcom, the UK's media regulator, has received complaints about a segment on the rightwing news channel last week that drew a link between non-British" names and those in court charged with sex offences.