Only 3.5 per cent of reports filed in the wake of Scotland’s controversial new hate crime law were for actual crimes, according to police statistics. Police Scotland’s first figures since the legislation was introduced showed that authorities received 7,152 online hate reports between April 1 and April 7. But in that first week, only 240 of those thousands of reports had been for actual hate crimes, alongside an additional 30 “non-crime hate incidents”, according to a statement from Police Scotland. A service spokesperson said: “This data highlights the substantial increase in the number of on…