no, in Manchester they now categorising such abuse as a hate crime, same for anyone singled out for being part of a cultural sub-group.

Manchester police to record attacks on goths, emos and punks as hate crimes | UK news | The Guardian

First emo hate crime arrests in Manchester | UK news | The Guardian

And it stems from this:
The police made the decision in consultation with the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, a charity named after a 20-year-old goth who died in 2007 after she and her boyfriend were attacked as they walked home through Stubbeylee Park, Bacup. Lancaster suffered severe head injuries and never regained consciousness.
Her killers were sentenced in 2008, and the judge recognised her death as a hate crime because they were targeted for being goths.