Man’s nose broken in doorstep attack
DRUNKEN Anthony Forrester broke a deaf man’s nose in an unprovoked attack outside his home. Philip Cotterill, who is profoundly deaf, was at home with him mum in Lower Bethesda Street, Hanley, at...
View ArticleMan, 43, punched victim in face after row over state of dog.
A 43-YEAR-OLD assaulted a man in his own home following a row over a dog, a court heard. Anthony Forrester, aged 43, of St Luke’s Court, Hanley, was handed a 10-month sentence for assault occasioning...
View ArticleRacist Wolverhampton man jailed over Ku Klux Klan video
Christopher Philips / Darren Clifft Christopher Philips, from Wolverhampton, who used a series of pseudonyms and even impersonated mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik had pleaded guilty to posting...
View ArticleMan jailed after bottle attack on rival which almost sliced his nose off
A MAN who almost had his nose sliced off when he was attacked with a broken bottle has told how it has devastated his life. William Burnside was yesterday jailed for six years for the vicious assault...
View ArticleDangerous Exeter child kidnapper and armed robber arrested after four months...
POLICE have confirmed that a dangerous armed robber and paedophile from Exeter was arrested this afternoon – four months after going on the run. Officers cuffed Mark Sleman in the Smallfield area of...
View ArticleFar-right activist admits assault and firing air rifle in New Addington
Frank Day A FAR-RIGHT activist has been handed a community order for assault and firing an air rifle out of his New Addington home. Frank Day, 65, attacked Samuel Bartlett and later fired a Titan air...
View ArticleFormer EDL leader Tommy Robinson sent to jail for mortgage fraud.
THE former leader of the English Defence League has been jailed for 18-months for mortgage fraud. Lennon, 31, also known as Tommy Robinson and the founder of the EDL, was imprisoned for his part in a...
View ArticleExtremist nailed Koran to pub wall in protest against Islamic centre plans
Melrose Arms, Office Row, Front Street, Shotton Colliery. There are proposals for it to become as Muslim education centre. A MEMBER of a far-right group nailed a copy of the Koran onto a pub which is...
View ArticleMan posted comment about burning down mosque after Lee Rigby murder
A man has been warned he could face jail for posting a Facebook comment about burning down a mosque in the wake of Lee Rigby’s murder. Derek Phin, 46, appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Friday where...
View ArticleNeo-Nazi thug jailed for 10-year campaign of violence towards women but...
SIOBHAN Melrose and Leigh Cameron blast four-and-a-half-year sentence for James Boyd and reveal they didn’t even get the satisfaction of seeing him being sent down because the court was packed with...
View ArticleFather jailed over Walsall EDL rally violence
He went out to protest on the streets of the Black Country, his face covered with a mask bearing the cross of St George, before hurling missiles towards police. But today father-of-two and English...
View ArticleEDL demonstrator who shouted racist abuse in Farnworth loses appeal
AN ENGLISH Defence League demonstrator has lost an appeal against a conviction for shouting racist abuse at a rally in Farnworth last year. John Banks was among the EDL supporters who congregated at...
View ArticleEDL member sentenced for nailing copy of Koran to Muslim centre
A MEMBER of a far-right group nailed a copy of the Koran to a proposed Muslim education centre. Graham French, 28, also sprayed EDL, which stands for English Defence League, on the former Melrose Arms...
View ArticleThug glassed a man at his Newcastle home – because he asked him to put his...
Matthew Walley DRUNKEN Matthew Walley smashed a man over the head with a bottle – after he was asked to put his dog on a lead. The 22-year-old was told by Mark Dias to put his dog on a leash as he was...
View ArticleRacist gang sentenced for ‘completely and utterly disgraceful’ attack on...
A gang launched a “completely and utterly disgraceful” racist attack on staff at a Cambridge restaurant in the wake of the Lee Rigby murder. Mai Thai restaurant, Hobbs Pavilion, Park Terrace,...
View ArticleDerek Phin jailed for mosque threat after Lee Rigby murder
Derek Phin An Aberdeen man who posted a Facebook comment about burning down a mosque in the wake of Lee Rigby’s murder has been jailed. Derek Phin, 46, admitted posting the threatening and abusive...
View ArticleFootball hooligan barred from matches for five years
FOOTBALL hooligan Jeff Marsh has been banned from football grounds for five years after admitting affray. The 44-year-old Cardiff City supporter was found in possession of a knuckleduster when he was...
View ArticleMikaeel Kular: Warren Butler sentenced for offensive Facebook posts.
A soldier has been called a “disgrace” for posting offensive Facebook messages over the death of a three-year-old boy. Warren Butler, 19, from Carlisle, was handed a 16-week sentence, suspended for 18...
View ArticleSDL marcher kicked pregnant girlfriend in stomach
A man kicked his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach during a brutal attack after he returned home from a far-right Scottish Defence League march. James Mullen rounded on a Polish neighbour who tried to...
View ArticleMagistrates’ praise for brave Darwen special constable
MAGISTRATES praised a female special constable who stood up to a drunken gang in a Darwen park. Blackburn magistrates heard that Special Constable Nicola Veitch was attacked by one of the mob who...
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