Black man accused in bi-racial couple “hate crime case
For months, Rita Brown and her partner Seun Oyinsan wondered who was vandalizing their car and garage with racist symbols and epithets.
On Monday, police arrested Brown’s ex-boyfriend—whom she lived with for 12 years—and charged him in connection with the crimes.
Brown, who is white, and Oyinsan, who is black, moved into a home on Newmarket’s quiet Hodgson Dr. in August. In multiple incidents from September to January, swastikas were spray-painted onto the couple’s garage, their SUV was defaced with the n-word and nails hammered into small pieces of wood were left under the car tires.Anthony Burke, 63, of Bradford, is charged with two counts of mischief, one count of uttering a threat and one count of criminal harassment.