POLICE are investigating after a pig’s head was thrown at Southport mosque.
The dead animal was found lying outside the mosque.
It is believed it had been thrown over the wall of the place of worship on Sussex Road.
The pig is particularly offensive to Muslims as they regard the animal as unclean.
The Islamic religion bans Muslims from eating or touching the animal.
Police confirmed they were treating the incident – which happened at around 11.10pm on July 6 – as a hate crime which is being investigated by their specialist SIGMA team.
A spokesman for the Sussex Road mosque said the pig head attack was a one-off incident and they had not had any similar incidents.
He said: “In general, nothing of this nature has ever happened.
“It was an isolated incident.”
