In a shocking example from 2004, racially aggravated harassment led to three-year jail sentences for three motorway maintenance workers at Amey Mouchel’s Walsall depot. They bullied their Muslim co-worker over a 10-month period, including tying him to railings, hosing him with cold water, trying to force-feed him bacon, placing an item made to look like a bomb in his locker and setting his trousers on fire. They filmed their actions on a mobile phone.