Prosecutions

Britain has one of the strongest legislative frameworks in Europe for fighting hate crime and extremism, but it is not being used. Though antisemitic hate crime has risen to record levels, the list of prosecutions has yet to record more than two dozen prosecutions per annum, out of more than 15,000 hate crimes that are prosecuted annually. In the absence of law enforcement, antisemitism will continue to spread, antisemites will become bolder, attacks on Jews will become more common and more ferocious, the Jewish community will become more fearful, and the golden era for Jews in Britain will have ended. The situation has become so desperate that we have now launched multiple lawsuits, including judicial review proceedings against the Crown Prosecution Service and private prosecutions of individuals that the authorities have failed to prosecute themselves. The Crown Prosecution Service refuses to disclose how many cases of antisemitism it prosecutes each year, so we maintain our own register of prosecutions.

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antisemitic hate crime cases prosecuted

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antisemitic criminals convicted

17th August 2023

Abdullah Qureshi, 28, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire carried out a series of violent attacks against Orthodox Jewish people, including a child, on 18th August 2021.

Qureshi initially pleaded guilty at Thames Magistrates’ Court to two counts of assault by beating and one count of grievous bodily harm with intent in a plea deal that dropped the racially aggravated element of the charges. After pressure from Campaign Against Antisemitism, Shomrim and CST, the CPS requested that the court allow reinstatement of the racially aggravated element of the charges. The request was granted by Stratford Magistrates’ Court, and Qureshi was found guilty at Thames Magistrates’ Court on the restored counts. Sentencing was subsequently delayed after concerns were raised about Qureshi’s mental health and, after the court found him to be “suffering from a mental disorder”, he was given a hospital order under section 37 of the Mental Health Act, with a section 41 restriction.

2nd August 2023

Kerry Hardwell, 35, from Bognor, targeted a fellow Chelsea supporter, who was Jewish, with abusive tweets during a ten-year span from 2012 to 2022. The over 50 allegedly antisemitic Twitter posts included referring to Jews as “vermin” and “parasites”. In one tweet, he allegedly called businessman and television personality Alan Sugar a “Yid c***”.

Hardwell pleaded guilty at Worthing Magistrates’ Court to three counts of sending communications with offensive messages and one count of sending an offensive message by a public communication network. He was handed a three-year Football Banning Order by the court, which restricts his access to attending professional football matches in England. He was also ordered to undertake 200 hours of unpaid work, which was uplifted from 120 hours owing to the religiously/racially aggravated nature of the crime. Chelsea also confirmed that he has received a lifetime ban from attending the club’s games.

31st July 2023

Samuel Doyle, 40, of Derbyshire, called for the extermination of Jewish and LGBTQ people. His house was adorned with Nazi paraphernalia, including a portrait of Adolf Hitler, and had Nazi flags and fridge magnets and fascist and racist manifestos and books.

Doyle was charged and later pleaded guilty to five counts of distributing or publishing written material to stir up racial hatred. He was jailed for three years at Manchester Crown Court.

11th July 2023

Luke Skelton, 19, from Washington, absorbed far-right ideology whilst researching bomb-making. Between the dates of October 2020 and October 2021, he carried out a “hostile reconnaissance” of Forth Banks police station in Newcastle, in which he would take photographs and conduct searches for CCTV cameras, whilst he was a student at Gateshead College. He professed an admiration for Hitler and Oswald Mosley, and searches for neo-Nazi content were discovered on his devices. He posted antisemitic, Islamophobic, homophobic and other racist and sexist comments online.

Skelton was convicted of preparing to commit acts of terrorism at Teeside Crown Court by a jury, after a previous jury failed to reach a decision. He was sentenced to four years in prison, with an extended licence of one year.

10th July 2023

Daniel Down, 29, an Arsenal supporter, shouted “Hitler should have finished the job” at a football match on 15th January 2023 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. A victim reported the incident to the police, noting that he had immediately told Down that he took “great offence” at what Down said and explained that members of his family had died in the Holocaust. Down immediately apologised to the victim and attended a police interview without legal counsel.

Down pleaded guilty and was sentenced at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court to an aggravated charge of using threatening, abusive or distressing words. In light of his plea and apology to the victim, Down was given a court order that bans him from attending football matches in the UK for three years. He was also ordered to pay a total of £471 in fines, which includes a victim surcharge of £110.

23rd June 2023

Ben Styles, 25 from Leamington Spa, posted in an online group called “#Kill All the Jews” and had begun building a submachine gun. He reportedly referred to the Holocaust as a ‘Holohoax’, and posted in the online group: “I hope the Holocaust is real next time.” He also proudly sent screenshots of his phone which used images of swastikas for the background.

Styles was found not guilty of preparing an act of terrorism but was convicted of possessing material that could be used for terrorism purposes and for possessing a prohibited weapon. He was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court to seven years in prison.

23rd June 2023

Kristofer Thomas Kearney, 39, of Liverpool, used the online moniker “Charlie Big Potatoes”, under which name he posted links to 89 extremist documents on Telegram, including the manifestos of the Christchurch mosque shooter, the Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist, Anders Breivik, and the Chabad of Poway Synagogue shooter. Prosecutors said that posts made by Kearney, who is alleged to have acted as ‘head of fitness’ within the far-right Patriotic Alternative group, also set up a fitness channel called “Fascist Fitness”, described Jewish people as “responsible for a lot of the world’s ills,” and said that Hitler did “nothing wrong”. He was living in Alicante when he was extradited last September to face charges.

Kearney, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to two counts of disseminating terrorist publications in relation to two Telegram posts on 23rd January 2021 and 8th March 2021, and was sentenced to four years and eight months’ in prison, with a two-year extended licence period. He was also handed a notification requirement for a period of ten years.

20th June 2023

Darren Hurrel, 21, reportedly defended Adolf Hitler and handed out flyers to schoolchildren in Larkhall, Scotland. A video was circulated on social media in which he says: “Hitler wanted a country for white people. He also wanted a country for every other people. And, obviously, there was a small group of people who controlled all of the media, all of the banks, and this small group…they promoted pornography, promoted cultural Marxism, and it destroyed Germany. Hitler took control of the media and the banks and put the interests of the German people first.” When asked by a student “if the Holocaust is real,” Hurrel replied: “No, it is not.” His t-shirt appeared to be adorned with a Nazi sonnendrad, or sun wheel, symbol. Later on in the video, an apparent confrontation takes place between Mr Hurrel and a student, prompting him to decry “I’m here to help you.” His manner then becomes aggressive and he states: “What the f*** are you gonna do?” The video footage shows Hurrel being chased by a group of students as they threw cans and bottles at him.

Hurrel appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court and admitted assaulting a fourteen-year-old boy, knocking the student down. He was fined £290.

19th June 2023

Zakir Hussain, 28 taunted a woman whose brother died in the fatal 1989 crush at Hillsborough Stadium. In a slew of abusive Twitter messages that he posted in April 2020 timed to coincide with the anniversary of the disaster, he targeted the victim. One comment referred to “Jewish rapists”.

Hussain pleaded guilty to five counts of sending messages on a public communication network that were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene, or menacing character. He was handed a fourteen-week jail sentence at Stratford Magistrates’ Court, suspended for a year. He was also ordered to undertake 200 hours of community work and pay £500 compensation to the victim.

19th June 2023

Julie Ann Rycroft, 66 and now of Garforth, sent 148 e-mails over four months, containing “grossly offensive, antisemitic and racially aggravated” material. She had been living in a rented property in Rothwell in early 2020 when the premises were taken over by a new landlord, who issued her with a Section 21 notice, effectively declining to renew her lease. She then proceeded to send e-mails and voicemail messages to the landlord’s solicitor, calling the landlord a “bastard” and “a piece of s***,” while also making references to him being Jewish. She ignored a warning from the police and continued to send further such abusive e-mails.

Rycroft pleaded guilty to two counts of racially-aggravated harassment and one of simple harassment, and was given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, at Leeds Crown Court, as well as a ten-day rehabilitation order and a ten-year restraining order, banning her from contacting the landlord or the employees of the property’s management company.

12th June 2023

Richard Osborne, 53, of Solihull, shared far-right content targeting Jewish people and members of the LGBTQ+ community. He also expressed support for the proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action. A raid of his home also revealed a shotgun under his bed, for which he did not have a licence.

Osborne received a sentence of three years and ten months in jail at Birmingham Crown Court after he pleaded guilty to two counts of publishing material intended to provoke racial hatred and homophobia.

2nd June 2023

Matthew King, 19, from Wickford in Essex, engaged in a number of conversations online with a seventeen-year-old known to the Court as “Miss A”. His mother reported him to Prevent after he had told her that he wanted to move to Syria with Miss A, whom he had claimed was a doctor or a junior doctor. In his conversations with Miss A, with whom Mr King is believed to have had an online romantic relationship, he reportedly said: “I guess Jihadi love is powerful. I just want to kill people.” The two had also discussed plans to target marines and a voice message to Miss A was found in which Mr King described his plans to force two marines to rape each other. Investigations into his online activity also uncovered searches for ISIS tactical knife training videos and videos made by King of uniformed police officers. One video showed four officers outside of Stratford Magistrates’ Court, of which he uploaded a photo on Snapchat with the caption, “Target Acquired”.

King was sentenced at the Old Bailey to a life-sentence with a minimum of six years’ imprisonment, following his guilty plea to terror charges.

1st June 2023

Alan Madden, 65 from Port Sunlight in Merseyside, published videos of Hitler and kept a semi-automatic pistol and ammunition in his bedroom in case of a “complete breakdown in society.” He admitted knowing that the weapons and ammunition were illegal in the UK, and had smuggled them from South Africa, where he purchased them legally. He published videos of Hitler on his account on Bitchute, in which Jewish people were called “liars” and a “satanic power”, and had copies of books by Hitler and Oswald Mosley. A search of his electronic devices uncovered that he had delivered a talk in Chester called “Adolf Hitler, the Jew and Holocaust Lies”. He had also described the proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action as “the real deal” and “commendable”.

Madden pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to possession of a prohibited firearm, possessing prohibited ammunition, two counts of possessing ammunition without a firearms certificate, three counts of possessing an offensive weapon in a private place and possession of a flick knife, and three counts of stirring up racial hatred. He was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.

1st June 2023

Christine Grayson, 60 from York, and Darren Reynolds, 60 from Sheffield, self-dubbed “Bonnie and Clyde with a box of matches”, planned to destroy 5G masts because they believed that they would be used as a weapon against those who had taken the COVID-19 vaccine. The couple had gathered weapons, including a crossbow, M16 and AK-47 replica assault rifle, in preparation for what they thought was the collapse of society. They also encouraged attacks on MPs, with Reynolds describing Parliament as “a nest of Jews, foreigners, and collaborators” on Telegram and promoting the antisemitic “Great Replacement Theory”. He later confirmed to police that he believed “we are being replaced by the dark races” and that the Jews were behind a plan to bring about the “extinction of the white race”. Reynolds also published links to repositories of far-right writing by Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler and others. Grayson later said that she did not share Reynold’s views, but also said that then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson was “not even English, he is Turkish, Jewish”, and that there should be “English people” running the country.

Reynolds was found guilty at Leeds Crown Court of six counts of possession of material useful for terrorism and one count of disseminating such material and was jailed for twelve years, with an additional year on licence, owing to what the judge termed his “extreme right wing, antisemitic and racist views.” Grayson was found guilty of conspiracy to commit criminal damage and was sentenced to twelve months in prison, to be released after spending nine months on remand.

15th May 2023

James Allchurch, 51 from Pembrokeshire, was discovered to have created the website “Radio Aryan”, later named “Radio Albion”, in order to upload antisemitic and racist podcasts. He requested that he be referred to as “Sven Longshanks”, his podcasting name which is apparently taken from King Edward I, also known as Edward Longshanks, who expelled the Jews from England in 1290. In court, the jury was played fifteen episodes of the podcast, in which Allchurch introduced a song that said that the world was better when Black people were enslaved and Jews were persecuted under Adolf Hitler as “one of his favourite tracks”. There was also talk about hanging Jewish people, while other recordings made reference to Jewish people controlling the media, banks, and television and film industries. In a raid of his home, police discovered a notebook containing usernames and passwords which included entries such as “JewsAreTheEnemy”, “RaceWarMessiah” and reference to the numbers 14 and 88, a code to the neo-Nazi fourteen-word oath.

Allchurch was found guilty at Swansea Crown Court of ten offences, and not guilty of five, contrary to section 21 of the Public Order Act 1986, and was sentenced to two years and six months in prison.

11th May 2023

Vaughn Dolphin, 20, filmed himself accidentally blowing up his kitchen while attempting to mix explosives, said that “minorities should be shot”, and was found to have terrorist materials at his home including step-by-step instructions on how to make a shotgun and recipes for homemade explosives. There was a Totenkopf (death’s skull) attached to his shed wall, had been in multiple far-right Telegram channels including one called “Hitler group”, and had posted a video described by the judge as “a horrific recording of multiple murders.”

Dolphin was convicted of possession of terrorist documents, disseminating terrorist publications, possession of explosive substances, and possession of a firearm and was sentenced in Birmingham Crown Court to eight years and six months in prison.

9th May 2023

Nicholas Street, 20, of Liverpool, was arrested in December 2019 by police after he was discovered to be in connection with a man who had attempted to purchase a firearm. Police uncovered messages exchanged between the pair, in which they spoke of homemade firearms, and full search of his electronic devices uncovered messages exchanged between with members of far-right organisations about guns and the sharing of neo-Nazi propaganda and videos. Documents contrary to section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 were also found on his devices. He was arrested one year later and charged with three counts of possession of material likely to be of use in terrorism and one charge of encouraging terrorism.

Street pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to three counts of possessing terrorist documents contrary to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and, at an earlier hearing, was found guilty of offences contrary to section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

14th April 2023

Gareth Anthony Brett, 35 from Poole, used his Twitter and Telegram platforms to share antisemitic messages and quotes from Adolf Hitler. He was charged with stirring up racial hatred. According to the prosecution, there were posts highlighting the physical traits of Jewish people, coupled with well-known antisemitic images and symbolism used by neo-Nazis. He also recounted in a post that he had taken a sample of his own DNA to determine his heritage and he implied that he would take his own life if the results showed that he was to be even one percent Jewish. Other messages contained extracts from Mein Kampf and content about white supremacy.

Brett pleaded guilty to four counts of publishing written material to stir up racial hatred between 29th May 2020 and 15th January 2021, and was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court to twelve months and two weeks in jail and ordered to pay a £156 victim surcharge.

31st March 2023

Oliver Riley, 19, from Oxfordshire, shared videos that promoted neo-Nazi and white supremacist content. He began pursuing an interest in extremist videos as a teenager, and was sixteen or seventeen years old at the time of the offences. uploaded 23 videos, described as “racist, homophobic, glorify[ing] Nazism and terrorist attacks” by the prosecution, to BitChute, an online platform often favoured by the far-right. WhatsApp messages between Riley and his girlfriend were also revealed to have included a meme promoting Holocaust-denial.

Riley pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to three counts of possession of a document or record containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism and of sending a message that was grossly offensive. He was also convicted of providing a service to others that enables them to obtain, read, listen to, or look at such a publication and intended, or was reckless, as to whether an effect of his conduct would be a direct or indirect encouragement, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. He was sentenced at the Old Bailey to a three-year community order that involves him having to complete a rehabilitation activity for 60 days, 200 hours of unpaid work, and not delete his digital history for three years.

15th March 2023

James Farrell, 32, from Priesthill in Glasgow, exchanged antisemitic messages with an online far-right group, “Oaken Hearth”, on Telegram, and shared an instructional video on how to build a replica submachine gun. The former security guard also professed an admiration for the Norwegian neo-Nazi murderer, Anders Breivik. Antisemitic propaganda in support of Adolf Hitler was also said to have been shared, and at one point, Farrell is alleged to have said: “It’s about time someone firebombed a synagogue.”

Farrell admitted in Glasgow’s High Court of Justiciary to sharing a video clip featuring instructions on how to build a 3D-printed replica MAC-11 firearm, which he had previously described as an “edgy, cool video”, and pleaded guilty to a breach of the 2006 Terrorism Act. He was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison.

9th March 2023

Matthew Patterson, 24, of Kettering was in possession of Nazi memorabilia, including an SS ring, a gas mask and a swastika-engraved dagger. Police also found extreme far-right antisemitic messages on his digital devices, including antisemitic messages.

Patterson pleaded guilty to one charge of collecting information for terrorist purposes under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and was given an eleven-month sentence, suspended for two years, at Leicester Crown Court, in addition to an extended period on license of one year.

6th March 2023

Neil McManniman, 46, of Kirby, was charged with religiously aggravated harassment after the Everton supporter hurled a “torrent of foul abuse” towards Tottenham Hotspur fans during a home match at Goodison Park on 7th November 2021. The antisemitic abuse reportedly included hissing sounds, commonly performed in imitation of the gas chambers at Nazi death camps, as well as phrases such as “dirty Jews, dirty Yids”, and “f****** Jews”. He was ejected from the stadium after a fellow fan drew a steward’s attention to his conduct. He had seven previous offences, including a similar conviction involving the use of the n-word, for which he previously received a three-year banning order.

McManniman pleaded not guilty but was convicted by a jury at Liverpool Crown Court after only half an hour of deliberations, and was given a suspended nine-month prison sentence. He was also banned from football matches for five years, ordered to carry out fifteen days of rehabilitation activities and given a six-month alcohol treatment requirement.

14th February 2023

Edward Ossian, 68, of Southport, was charged with carrying out a racially and religiously aggravated offence against a Jewish man in pub on 21st September 2022 after he hurled antisemitic abuse at the victim in Bottle Bar on Lord Street. In a victim impact statement read out for the court, the victim said: “I feel very anxious about wearing my kippah outside because the stress of antisemitism and all that comes with being openly Jewish today. I feel the actions of that day will impact me for some considerable time.”

Ossian pleaded and was handed a twelve-week custodial sentence, suspended for one year, as well as twenty days of Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, by Liverpool Crown Court. He was also told to pay a £300 victim surcharge, given a three-year restraining order and must wear an electronic tag for eight weeks, with a curfew from 19:00 to 07:00.

25th January 2023

Luca Benincasa, 20, from Cardiff was found to be prominent member of the Feuerkrieg Division, a terror group that promotes violence and mass murder in pursuit of a race war, and which was banned in the UK in July 2020. When the police raided his residence, they found Nazi paraphernalia and terrorist material on his laptop, including an “extremely racist” and “extremely antisemitic” manifesto that he had drafted. On Instagram, he had written messages such as “I’m a neo… nazi” and “I am an extremist I commit multiple acts of hate crimes” and “told my mum I wanna be a terrorist…little does she know I’m currently classed as one already.” Police reportedly also found evidence in Telegram threads that he was “actively recruiting” people to join the terror group.

Benincasa pleaded guilty to membership in a proscribed neo-Nazi terror group, becoming the first person to be convicted of belonging to the Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) since it was banned. He also pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing indecent images of children, one count of possessing an extreme pornographic image and one count of possessing a prohibited image of a child between 29th December 2021 and 1st January 2022. He was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court to five years and seven months for the terrorism charges. He must also serve a consecutive eight month sentence for pornographic images charges. He will be jailed in a young offenders’ institution. In addition, he was also given an extended licence period of three years for the terror charges.

20th January 2023

Oliver Lewin, 38, from Coalville, Leicestershire was found to be carrying our reconnaissance of potential targets for attack, including major transmitter masts and transport infrastructure, buying equipment, creating hideouts, and attempting to recruit others. On a Telegram channel, he issued a “call to arms” and suggested “fire-bombing” sheds. He also said that he believed the Government is controlled by a Jewish elite and that “white people across Europe were being systematically killed by the vaccine” in a “planned genocide” and at a search of his address, police discovered an uncompleted manual, entitled “Civilian Resistance Operations Manual”.

Lewin was found guilty of preparing terrorist acts at Birmingham Crown Court and was jailed for six-and-a-half years.

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antisemitic criminals convicted

Stuart Sutton, 45, of Broadway, Hindley, posted antisemitic and racist material over an eight-month period in 2021. Police conducted a search of his home, arresting him shortly thereafter.

Sutton pleaded guilty to five counts of publishing or distributing written material likely to stir up racial hatred, contrary to Section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986, and was sentenced at Bolton Crown Court to two years in prison, reduced to sixteen months owing to his early guilty plea.

Josh Smith, 29, of Inverclyde, performed a Nazi salute during a Rangers game against German team RB Leipzig on 5th May 2022 at Rangers’ Ibrox Stadium. He initially denied performing the gesture when questioned by police and instead claimed that the gesture was for the “hand and the Crown.”

Smith was found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner which was racially aggravated for performing the Nazi gesture. He was fined £790 and was banned from attending all football matches in the UK for six months.

Paul Daniel Newman, 57, of Ealing, yelled “I’ll blow you up, you f***ing Jew” to a Jewish man in Stamford Hill in July 2022.

Newman was found guilty at Stratford Magistrates Court of racially or religiously aggravated disorderly behaviour as well as causing fear or provocation of violence. He was sentenced to twenty weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for eighteen months, and was ordered to comply with 30 days rehabilitation activity requirement and six months in an alcohol treatment programme. In addition, he was also ordered to pay £625 prosecution costs and £154 victim surcharge.

11th November 2022

Malaki Thorpe, of Fairview Road N15, beat two Jewish men in Stamford Hill in North London in January 2022 in an unprovoked attack. The victims were hospitalised. Thorpe appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court charged with two counts of racially aggravated assault occasioning bodily harm and one count of possession of an offensive weapon.

Thorpe was found mentally unfit at Wood Green Crown Court, and in a court-directed plea, pleaded guilty to the charges but without the racially aggravated element. He was remanded at Chase Farm Hospital.

Alan Strank, 42, performed a Nazi salute to supporters of Milton Keynes Dons, the opposing team, at Wimbledon’s Cherry Red Records Stadium on 9th April 2022.

Strank pleaded guilty at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court yesterday to a racially aggravated offence under Section 4 of the Public Order Act. He was given a three-year football banning order and was ordered to carry out 50 hours of unpaid work in the community and pay a fine of £180.

David Hutchinson, 61 from Sutton, posted racist material to VK, the Russian social media platform. He made reference to neo-Nazi symbology, also writing that he was “waiting for my white race to wake up and fight back”, suggesting he is “looking for 40 men” and is “trying to organise whites”. In an apparent call to action, he added: “I love being a racist and I want to get in with people who say ‘f*** the system’ and ain’t frightened to fight for a good cause.”

Hutchinson pleaded guilty to seven offences of publishing racist material, contrary to Section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986, between December 2020 and October 2021. He was sentenced to Kingston Crown Court to three years in prison.

5th August 2022

Souraka Djabouri, 19, of Ilford, and a fellow assailant walked in front of the car of Rabbi Rafi Goodwin, who leads the Chigwell and Hainault Synagogue in Essex, when the Rabbi was driving outside the synagogue on 16th May 2021. They forced him to brake, attacked him and stole his mobile telephone. He was brutally beaten, punched five times in the face until he fell to the floor and was then hit on the head with a brick, sustaining head injuries, according to the police. The Rabbi’s children were in the car at the time and witnessed the gruesome attack.

Djabouri admitted religiously aggravated damage to Rabbi Goodwin’s vehicle and theft of a mobile phone, and was sentenced for grievous bodily harm without intent at Chelmsford Crown Court to three years and seven months in a young offenders’ institute. The second attacker, believed to have been 25 at the time of the attack, has not been identified.

19th July 2022

Shay Asher, 24, who is a fan of Newcastle United, performed a Nazi salute at Tottenham Hotspur supporters at a home match at St James’ Park in October 2021.

Asher claimed that he was merely waving to someone, but Newcastle Magistrates’ Court rejected the former Royal Engineer’s claim and initially fined him £200, with £85 costs and a £34 surcharge. He returned to court to challenge a Football Banning Order, for which the prosecution had applied, but the court decided to impose the Order, which includes an order to him to surrender his passport should he apply for one, not to enter football grounds and to keep away from England matches.

15th July 2022

Nicholas Nelson, of Cambridgeshire, used an anonymous social media account to racially harass two individuals, and left racially abusive telephone messages for a charity worker. The online racial abuse included calling for another Holocaust, called the Jewish recipient “Shylock”, speaking of Jews being used for gun practice, calling Jewish women whores, sharing obscene sexual fantasies involving Hitler, and glorification of the proscribed genocidal antisemitic terror group, Hamas. Campaign Against Antisemitism, together with legal counsel, devised and applied an innovative legal initiative to unmark him and secure criminal charges against him. He pleaded guilty at Peterborough Crown Court to racially aggravated harassment under section 31(1)(b) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and with sending an electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety under 1(1)(a) of the Malicious Communications Act 1988.

Nelson was given an eighteen-month sentence, suspended for two years, at Southwark Crown Court, along with an order to undertake 30 days of rehabilitation activity and 220 hours of unpaid community service. He ws also required to pay a modest victim surcharge and was to be subject to a restraining order. However, given that his campaign of harassment endured for a period of time against multiple victims and came after he had committed several similar offences, during the suspended sentences for which he had committed these latest offences, Campaign Against Antisemitism wrote to the Attorney General urging a referral to the Court of Appeal for the unduly lenient sentence. The Attorney General’s Office agreed, as did the Court of Appeal, quashing the sentence and recognising that the two earlier suspended sentenced that Nelson had been given had been breached and were to be reactivated and served concurrently with a new custodial sentence. In considering the new sentence, the Court of Appeal calculated that the charges should have led to a custodial sentence of 29 months if each were considered on its own and added cumulatively. However, this was reduced to 24 months after adjustment for the “totality” principle. The Court of Appeal ultimately landed on eighteen months for the final prison term.

8th July 2022

Scott Mason, 36, was found with what police described as “step-by-step instructions on how to make home explosives” in the form of the infamous 1971 publication The Anarchist Cookbook. The police also said that Mason holds far-right, antisemitic, racist and homophobic views. Mason was charged with the possession of information of a kind likely to be useful to a terrorist, contrary to section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000; possession of extreme pornography; perverting the course of justice via witness intimidation; and possession of an offensive weapon.

Mason pleaded guilty to the terrorism offence in November 2021 and then, in January 2022, to the weapons offence, for which he received a sentence of three months at the magistrates’ court. The matter was then listed for trial before he pleaded guilty to the outstanding charges in April 2022. He was sentenced at Macnhester Crown Court to three years, with the judge commenting that he would have faced a four-and-a-half year sentence had he not pleaded guilty as early as he did.

Four members of a neo-Nazi gang shared antisemitic videos, memes, and images, including material celebrating Adolf Hitler and the Nazis on Telegram. Weapons and guides were recovered from Samuel Whibley, 29, Daniel Wright, 30, Liam Hall, 31, and Hall’s girlfriend Stacey Salmon, 29. Including a partially constructed 3D-printed gun at Hall’s and Salmon’s shared home in Keighley. The gang communicated with each other using a public Telegram channel set up by Whibley under the name Oaken Hearth, which White joined using the name “Gott Mit Uns”, words found on the belts of Nazi soldiers during the Second World War. The group was charged with anti-terrorism and firearms legislation, including counts relating to the encouragement of terrorism and the publication and dissemination of materials related to it.

The trial was held at Sheffield Crown Court, where Wright was found guilty of seven offences, including an offence of manufacturing a firearm, and was jailed for twelve years. Hall was found guilty of manufacturing a firearm and possessing a firearm, and was jailed for six years, while Salmon was convicted of possessing a firearm and was jailed for three years. Whibley was found guilty of eight terrorism offences, including the encouragement of terrorism and the dissemination of a terrorist publication, and was jailed for ten years.

7th June 2022

Alex Davies, 27, of Swansea, was involved in the founding of a “continuity” organisation following the proscription of the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action, designed to continue the work of the banned group and initially called the Southern Activist Network, later renamed NS131. That group was also banned as an alias of National Action nine months after the proscription of its predecessor organisation. He was a;sp photographed in 2016 performing a Nazi salute in the Buchenwald death camp execution chamber, and said that he did not believe that the Holocaust occurred.

Davies was found guilty by a jury at Winchester Crown Court of being a member of the proscribed group and was sentenced at the Old Bailey to eight and-a-half years in prison.

David Musins, 36, pleaded guilty to belonging to National Action, contrary to section 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000. He continued to be a member of the proscribed neo-Nazi terror group for three years following its ban, before leaving the group voluntarily. He engaged in fascist online activity, participated in a National Action meeting and a training camp organised by the far-right group, Legion, and attended a National Action rally in Darlington. Police discovered pictures of him alongside others performing a Nazi salute.

Musins was sentenced at the Old Bailey to three years’ imprisonment and an additional one year on licence.

24th May 2022

Daniel Garner, 26, performed Nazi salutes towards Austrian supporters during a Europa League game between West Ham United and Rapid Vienna at the London Stadium on 30th September 2021.

Garner pleaded guilty at Stratford Magistrates’ Court to one count of using threatening or abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment or alarm or distress. In addition to being subjected to a three-year football ban, he was fined £166.

A thirteen-year-old boy from Darlington was active on racist online forums, regularly used “racist, antisemitic and anti-Islamic language” and made contact with other far-right radicals online.

The boy admitted three counts of possessing information useful to a terrorist, specifically manuals for making explosives, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. He was sentenced at Newton Aycliffe Youth Court to complete a “high-intensity” referral order for twelve months. The judge believed that a custody order could undo the “rehabilitative” progress that the child, who has learning difficulties, has made.

5th May 2022

Andy Koseda, 54, of no fixed address, was arrested on 15th February after police were called to the Westfield shopping centre in Newham, where he had been carving swastikas into a wall using a knife. When police officers tried to arrest him, he reportedly racially abused them and threatened them with the knife.

Koseda was charged with threatening a person with a knife in a public place, racially aggravated harassment, criminal damage, possession of a knife and using threatening words to cause harassment. He pleaded guilty to all counts at an earlier hearing before being sentenced on 5th May at Snaresbrook Crown Court to two and a half years in prison.

27th April 2022

A sixteen-year-old boy who allegedly wrote on Twitter, “I am a domestic terror threat. I will bomb a synagogue,” and appeared to begin trying to realise this ambition was arrested after US authorities were alerted to his post. He searched Google for his nearest synagogue, downloaded instructions for making bombs and was pictured wearing a mask with swastikas on and making a white power salute and Nazi salute

Although the Chief Magistrate said that “I have been doing this job as a judge for twelve years and I have been involved in the criminal justice system for 23 years and this is some of the most appalling behaviour by a young person I have seen in terms of the comments you made,” he nevertheless sentenced the boy to only a twelve-month referral order.

21st April 2022

Abu Bakr Deghayes, 53, from from Saltdean, Sussex and originally from Libya, gave a sermon in English and Arabic at Brighton Mosque and Muslim Community Centre in November 2021 to around 50 people, including teenagers and young men, urging the congregation to ignore the British Government and its Prevent programme. He is claimed to have said: “The non-believer…is an idiot; he’s stupid. Jihad is compulsory upon you, you, you and you until the Day of Resurrection, whatever the British Government thinks, whatever Prevent thinks, whatever Israel thinks.” He added that anyone who did not like what he said was an enemy of Allah. His call for “Jihad by sword” was accompanied by a stabbing gesture, and throughout he wore a black top emblazoned with the words “Free Palestine, resistance is existence”. The sermon, which prompted some in attendance to walk out, was caught on CCTV.

Deghayes was convicted at the Old Bailey of encouraging terrorism and handed a four year jail term and a further year on licence.

14th April 2022

Alison Chabloz uploaded a video of the scene in the classic Oliver Twist film when Fagin, a fictitious Jewish criminal, is explaining to his newest recruit how his legion of children followers pick pockets. Chabloz sings an accompanying song of her own in the video about how Jews are greedy, “grift” for “shekels” and cheat on their taxes. The video appeared to be either a bizarre fundraising effort for her mounting legal costs due to numerous charges she has faced, including several ongoing prosecutions in which Campaign Against Antisemitism has provided evidence, or an attempt at mockery of Campaign Against Antisemitism for pursuing her in the courts.

Chabloz was charged with an offence under the Communications Act and, after a two-day trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, was sentenced to 22 weeks’ custody, of which she will serve half and then be under post-sentence supervision. She was also ordered to pay £1,058 in costs.

8th April 2022

Thomas Leech, 19, promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories about the nefarious “global influence” of Jews and the “Great Replacement”, a far-right conspiracy theory which claims that Jews are responsible for mass immigration and the supposed extinction of white Europeans, as well as posting examples of Holocaust-denial. He also glorified neo-Nazi terrorists, including Norwegian mass shooter Andrers Breivik, Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, and Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.

Leech confessed to being a Nazi when taken into custody by counter-terrorism operatives, but continued to post extreme antisemitic content even while on bail. At Manchester Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to three counts of encouraging acts of terrorism and stirring up religious or racial hatred, and was sentenced to two years in a young offenders institution.

2nd March 2022

Matthew Henegan, 35, possessed a document containing information likely to be useful in terrorism. In a raid of his home, investigators reportedly found a Nazi armband and leaflets which referred to Hitler as “your saviour”. Henegan asserted that Jewish people masterminded the COVID-19 pandemic and created an hour-long film in which he claimed that Jewish people controlled the police, economy and media. He reportedly referred to Jews as “kikes”, adding that they were filthy and sadistic and branded them “creatures”. He appeared at a preliminary hearing at the Old Bailey wearing dark glasses, a hairband and an armband with a red swastika. The judge ordered him to leave the courtroom. Asked during the trial whether he is a National Socialist, Henegan replied: “Yes, “I do not pretend otherwise.”

Henegan was found guilty at the Old Bailey of publishing, distributing or possessing material intended to stir racial hatred on six counts and one count of possessing a document useful to a terrorist after approximately eleven hours of jury deliberation. He was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court to eight years and one month in prison with an extended licence period of four years, and was made subject to a counter-terrorism notification order for 30 years.

16th February 2022

Patrick Gomes, 70, sent three abusive and antisemitic letters to one of Alan Sugar’s business premises in Loughton between October and December 2018. Each letter was addressed to Lord Sugar and reportedly included threatening and offensive language that was also derogatory towards the Jewish faith. One of the letters read: “I would like to murder all Jews in Britain, Alan.”

Gomes was convicted of religiously-aggravated harassment, putting those targeted in fear of violence, and was sentenced to three years and six months at Chelmsford Crown Court. He was also handed an indefinite restraining order not to contact Lord Sugar.

11th February 2022

Tahra Ahmed, 51, a prominent Grenfell Tower volunteer aid worker, was exposed by The Times as having claimed that the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire were “burnt alive in a Jewish sacrifice” and that the inferno profited Goldman Sachs. Further investigations by Campaign Against Antisemitism revealed that she was propagating a multitude of antisemitic conspiracy theories to her thousands of Facebook followers, and we reported her to the police.

Westminster Magistrates’ Court declined jurisdiction, and Ahmed was found guilty at the Old Bailey on two counts of publishing written material in order to stir up racial hatred, by eleven of the twelve jurors, and was sentenced to eleven months in prison.

20th January 2022

Michael Campbell, of Liverpool, participated in antisemitic chants aimed at supporters of Tottenham Hotspur at a match at Goodison Park. The Everton fan was investigated and charged by Merseyside Police and Everton Football Club, and appeared at South Sefton Magistrates Court in Bootle.

Campbell was handed a three-year Football Banning Order, preventing him from attending any regulated football match, and was ordered to pay a fine and court costs.

26

antisemitic hate crime cases prosecuted

26

antisemitic criminals convicted

13,073

total hate crime cases prosecuted

8th December 2021

Adam Boyle, 32, from Birmingham, was “visibly intoxicated” when he approached a Jewish couple on 7th October 2021 as they waited at Victoria Station in Manchester for a train to Bury. He then hurled antisemitic abuse at them before being arrested by two nearby off-duty police officers.

Boyle was charged with racially/religiously aggravated intentional harassment and was convicted. He was sentenced at Birmingham and Solihull Magistrates’ Court to 26 weeks in prison.

3rd December 2021

Ben Raymond, 32, the co-founder of the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action and its master propagandist, was found guilty of membership of the proscribed organisation at Bristol Crown Court. Raymond, from Swindon, helped launch the group in 2013 and reportedly coined the term “white jihad”. He was also convicted of possessing a manifesto written by the far-right terrorist Andrews Breivik, as well as a guide to homemade detonators, but was found not guilty of four counts of possessing other documents.

Raymond was sentenced to eight years in prison for membership and two years, to run concurrently, for the two offences relating to possession of terrorist documents. After release, he will be subject to terrorist notification requirements.

3rd December 2021

Richard Hesketh, 36 from Greater Manchester, posted 4,000 antisemitic videos that garnered over 5.5 million views under the name Rick Heskey on the platforms Bitchute and Goyim TV, the latter of which is affiliated with the “Goyim Defence League”, a group whose membership reportedly contains several neo-Nazis. Hesketh described his goal as “exposing the filthy Jews” and reportedly saw himself as a “Full time Jew Namer”. It is also understood that one of his social media profiles had the title: “Dedicated to Exposing the Jew”. In one video, he said: “Hitler should have killed more Jews. Completely agree, I’d say he should have killed about 16 million, that should have finished them off.” Another video was titled “The Filthy Jews of York Castle”, in which Mr Hesketh visited Clifford’s Tower in York, where approximately 150 Jews were murdered in 1190. In August 2021, Hesketh was charged with seven counts of distributing a recording of visual images or sounds stirring up racial hatred, contrary to section 21(1) Public Order Act 1986. On 7th September 2021, he pleaded guilty to all charges.

Hesketh was sentenced to four years in jail at Manchester Crown Court.

5th November 2021

Nathan Blagg, 21, of Retford in Nottinghamshire was charged with seven counts of sending by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message which violates the Malicious Communications Act. The charges refered to seven tweets of an antisemitic nature sent between 29th September, 2020 and 5th February, 2021.

Blagg pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Westminster Magistrates’ Court to eight weeks in prison.

29th October 2021

Keith Gowers, 59, of Tottenham, followed Beilla Reis down Manor Road in Stamford Hill at approximately 18:30 on 18th March before placing a black pillowcase over her head and punching her several times in the face and torso. Ms Reis, 20, was 27 weeks’ pregnant at the time. She had her glasses broken and suffered a cut lip and thumb. Mr Gowers then fled the scene, leaving behind the pillowcase, while Ms Reis was taken to hospital.

Gowers admitted one count of assault by beating and the court determined that there was no hate element. He was sentenced at Thames Magistrates’ Court to two years’ conditional discharge and an indefinite restraining order not to contact the victim by any means and not to go within 200 metres of the victim at any location. He was also ordered to pay a £22 victim surcharge.

22nd October 2021

The Hon. Piers Portman, the youngest living son of the 9th Viscount Portman, was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of one count of racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress in connection with a 2018 incident at Westminster Magistrates’ Court when he called Gideon Falter, Campaign Against Antisemitism’s Chief Executive, “Jewish scum”.

Portman was imprisoned for four months, with the possibility of release on licence after two months, and ordered to pay a £10,000 fine, make an additional £10,000 compensatory payment to the victim, Gideon Falter, and pay court costs. Mr Falter is donating the entire £10,000 to Campaign Against Antisemitism.

19th October 2021

Matthew Cronjager, 18, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of preparing for acts of terrorism and disseminating terrorist publications on Telegram after it emerged that he had planned to kill his former friend, who is Asian, for allegedly sleeping with white women. Cronjager, of Ingatestone, Essex, had attempted to obtain a 3D-printed gun or a sawn-off shotgun to commit the murder and had joined a far-right terror cell, having also discussed targeting Jews, Muslims, homosexuals and the British Government. He had also previously pleaded guilty to four separate offences.

Cronjager was jailed for eleven years.

8th October 2021

Tejinder Lohia subjected members of the Jewish community in Stamford Hill to a “torrent of racist abuse” which included “Kill you Jews, F*** Jews” and invoking Adolf Hitler’s name. He pleaded guilty to one count of using threatening, abusive or insulting words with intent to cause fear of/provoke unlawful violence, two counts of racially or religiously aggravated fear/provocation of violence by words, and three counts of possession of a controlled Class A drug (cocaine).

Lohia was sentenced at Thames Magistrates Court to a twelve-week prison term, suspended for twelve months, and unpaid work and alcohol treatment.

9th September 2021

A fifteen-year-old from Derbyshire who cannot be named for legal reasons discussed carrying out a terrorist attack at Dover on a far-right Telegram channel that he had created, explaining his intentions and potential weapons. He pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to encouraging terrorism and possessing and disseminating a terrorist publication. He had a previous conviction for threatening to blow up a mosque last year but claimed that it was a “bomb hoax, a prank and a joke”, appearing at that time alongside a sixteen-year-old co-defendant who admitted dissemination of a terrorist publication after an investigation showed that he had made videos featuring Hitler, Nazis murdering victims in concentration camps and a woman singing “All Jews should die, race mixing is a sin”, and had searched the internet for weapons.

The teenager was given a two-year youth referral order.

31st August 2021

Ben John, 21, was convicted by a jury at Leicester Crown Court of possessing information likely to be useful for preparing an act of terror – a charge that carries a maximum jail sentence of fifteen years. John downloaded the the Anarchist Cookbook, a guide to making bombs and illegal drugs at home and collated 67,788 documents which contained a large quantity of National Socialist, white supremacist and antisemitic material, as well as information relating to a Satanic organisation. John had previously failed to heed warnings by counter-terrorism officers and a referral to the Government’s counter-terrorism scheme, Prevent, was apparently not effective.

John was handed a two-year jail sentence suspended for two years plus a further year on licence, monitored by the probation service. Instead of prison, the judge required John to read works of literature and come before the court every four months in order to be tested on his reading. John was also given a five-year Serious Crime Prevention Order requiring him to stay in touch with the police and let them monitor his online activity and up to 30 days on a Healthy Identity Intervention programme. The Attorney-General referred the sentence to the Court of Appeal owing to it appearing to be “unduly lenient”. Following the Attorney-General’s referral, in January 2022 the Court of Appeal jailed John for two years with a one-year extended licence.

19th August 2021

David Elwyn Richards, 52, admitted to shouting abuse and racially harassing a victim in Wrexham and to racially aggravated damage after he painted the hairdressers above which the victim resided with swastikas and racist slogans. It was also reported that Richards had Nazi-related tattoos on his body, and when police visited his home, they found that his bedroom was covered in “racist and antisemitic symbols and slogans”.

Richards was sentenced at Mold Crown Court to nine months in prison, of which he must serve half, and was given a restraining order, until a further order, not to contact the victim or the owner of the hairdressers or from entering the street where the hairdressers is located and where the victim resides.

6th August 2021

Graham Hart, 68, a Hitler-loving radio host, pleaded guilty to eight counts of inciting racial hatred after action by Campaign Against Antisemitism. Hart, of Penponds, Camborne, was charged with five counts of incitement to racial hatred, including using offending words or behaviour in a programme involving threatening, abusive or insulting visual images or sounds which was included in a programme service, intending thereby to stir up racial hatred or, having regard to all the circumstances, whereby racial hatred was likely to be stirred up. Three further charges were subsequently added following a further investigation by Campaign Against Antisemitism. Hart had repeatedly made antisemitic comments on his show, including claiming that Jews are “filth”, questioned whether six million Jews were really murdered in the Holocaust and praised Adolf Hitler. He also claimed that Jews “run everything” and argued that the Jews have “got to go down, they’ve just got to go down”. There were further inflammatory statements, and the three further charges arose from comments including: “Let’s get rid of the Jews”. He also invoked antisemitic tropes, and said: “I’m a little bit over the top but I say wipe them all out” and “So, if you’re listening out there Mr Jew, we’re coming to get you.”

Hart was sentenced at Truro Crown Court to sixteen months in prison, which comprises two years’ imprisonment on the first five counts and 32 months for the remaining three counts to run concurrently and of which he will serve half. He was also sentenced to a criminal behaviour order of ten years, prohibiting him from engaging in similar activities on the internet, as well as a forfeiture order allowing the police to destroy the equipment that they seized. The sentence reflects the one-third discount for Mr Hart’s guilty pleas.

3rd August 2021

Gareth Bradley, 31, admitted vandalising a memorial in Rhyl, Wales with swastikas and vile messages referring to the murder of Jews and gassing of soldiers. The graffiti also contained the line, in German, that “the time has come for a Reich [empire]: we must exterminate the Jews.” He also pleaded guilty to defacing his prison cell with graffiti of a swastika.

Caernarfon Crown Court handed Bradley an eighteen-month sentence, suspended for two years, for this offence and several other offences, including racially abusing policing officers. Bradley was also ordered to carry out a 50-day rehabilitation requirement.

30th July 2021

Police found images of a teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, performing Nazi salutes, along with memes that glorified the Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Breivik. It was also said that the boy had downloaded several terrorist manuals and had accumulated thousands of images depicting a “concerning level of commitment to an extreme ideology.” He also possessed a collection of neo-Nazi writings. The teenager had swastikas, a noose, and the letters “DOTR” carved into his bedroom desk, a reference to the Day of the Rope ideology that advocates the mass lynching of all those considered to be “race traitors”. Detailed methods of how to murder someone were also found on his phone. The teenager admitted eleven counts of collecting material of use to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism contrary to section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Bristol Youth Court gave the teenager, who was fifteen and sixteen-years-old at the time of the committed offenses and seventeen when sentenced, a twelve-month referral order for terror offences in lieu of a twelve-month custody sentence, which was initially considered.

21st July 2021

Andrew Dymock, a 24-year-old politics graduate who was accused of creating and running the website of the neo-Nazi System Resistance Network group, was found guilty of fifteen terrorism and hate charges at the Old Bailey, including five counts of encouraging terrorism, four of disseminating terrorist publications, two of terrorist fundraising, one of possessing material useful to a terrorist, one of possessing racially inflammatory material, one of stirring up racial hatred, and one of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation. Dymock wrote and shared several antisemitic and hate-motivated articles through the website, including one titled “Join your local Nazis” and another called “The Truth about the Holocaust”.System Resistance Network is the successor to National Action, which the Government proscribed as a terrorist organisation following a long campaign by Campaign Against Antisemitism and others.

Dymock was jailed for seven years, with a further three years on extended licence, for terror and hate crimes.

23rd June 2021

Michael Nugent, 38, used online chat groups to disseminate violent, neo-Nazi ideas, which included advocating terrorism. He also shared information of how to make explosives. Nugent pleaded guilty at Kingston Crown Court to five counts of dissemination of terrorist publications and eleven of possessing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

Nugent was sentenced to three and a half years’ imprisonment.

14th June 2021

Dean Morrice, 34, was found guilty at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court on ten counts related to terrorism and explosives. A neo-Nazi and former UKIP member who advocated the murder of Jewish people, Morrice was reported to have posted “violent racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic propaganda online and collected the means for making bombs.” Morrice, who previously drove a truck in the army, also reportedly ran a Telegram channel which disseminated virulently antisemitic, neo-Nazi content that encouraged the killing of Jews and other minorities.

Morrice was given a 23-year custodial sentence, of which he will spend a minimum of eighteen years in prison.

25th May 2021

Stephen Lee Short, 32, made five videos where he filmed a woman placing a dog into a microwave and other kitchen appliances. In one of the clips, Short was understood to have made antisemitic comments about the Holocaust. At Wolverhampton Magistrates Court, Short, of Oxley, pleaded guilty to sending an offensive message by public communication.

Short was given a twelve-month community order which included fifteen Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days, an alcohol treatment requirement and a 21-day thinking skills programme. The court also ordered Short to undergo 200 hours of unpaid work which, considering the racial aspect to the offense, had been increased by 50 hours.

21st May 2021

Oliver Bel, 24, of Salford, called for the extermination of all Jewish people and was said to have been in possession of a bomb-making manual. In 2016 the Cambridge University graduate was reportedly in contact with members of National Action, a far-right neo-Nazi terrorist organisation proscribed by the Government following a long campaign by Campaign Against Antisemitism and others. In a raid of Mr Bel’s house, anti-terror police found Nazi memorabilia and books about Hitler, and he had a long record of antisemitic comments. Bel was convicted of collecting information useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

Manchester Crown Court sentenced Bel to two years in prison.

14th May 2021

Tobias Powell, 33, of Bognor Regis, convicted of posting “abhorrent” racist material online. Powell, who has a Nazi tattoo, had called for a civil war to stop the ethnic suicide of white people; showed support for the terrorist organisation National Action; and shared a picture of his tattoo which contained the Nazi emblem. He had set his Apple ID to “Adolf Hitler” and filmed his dog performing a Nazi salute, and had also said in an e-mail that he would have no problem “shooting off a kneecap” or “scalping” someone, referring to the cutting or tearing off of part of a human head.

Powell was sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court to three years in prison.

7th May 2021

Dennis McNulty, a GBM union activist, assaulted a Jewish barrister in an antisemitic attack and saying: “It’s always you f***ing people, you’re always the problem.” The remark was made during a heated political discussion in the King William IV pub in Hampstead in 2018, with McNulty apparently becoming angered even further upon discovering that his interlocutor was Jewish. McNulty was ejected from the pub, but found the victim on the bench outside, upon which he attacked him, causing a broken nose and a torn retina and necessitating emergency surgery in order to save his eye.

McNulty was jailed for nine years by Isleworth Crown Court, of which time he must serve at least six years.

30th April 2021

Benjamin Hannam, a 22-year-old from Edmonton in North London, was convicted at the Old Bailey of belonging to the proscribed group National Action between December 2016 and January 2018, lying on his application to join the police and possessing guides to knife-fighting and bomb-making. He became the first police officer to be convicted of far-right terrorism. The ban on reporting the case was lifted after Hannam admitted possessing an indecent image of a child.

Hannam was fired from the Metropolitan Police for gross misconduct and jailed for four years and four months.

31st March 2021

The notorious antisemite Alison Chabloz was found guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on charges under section 127 of the Communications Act relating to two interviews that she gave to far-right online outlets. She then publicised the interviews via her account on Gab, a social network associated with the far-right, claiming that “anything that’s worth controlling will have Jews there controlling it” and accusing Jews of turning their children into “psychopathic maniacs” because they are “indoctrinated from birth” with the idea that “their grandparents were gassed.” The prosecution followed action by Campaign Against Antisemitism.

Chabloz was sentenced to eighteen weeks in prison, of which she had to serve nine. She later humiliatingly lost her appeal and was sentenced to 32 weeks in prison, which represented both an uplift from the original eighteen-week sentence and the re-imposition of part of the suspended sentence that Chabloz received in her first conviction in 2018. She must serve half of this 32-week sentence, i.e. sixteen weeks, of which she has already served nine, leaving seven weeks of the custodial sentence to be served. There was no criminal behaviour order, because the court did not consider that such an order would prevent Chabloz from re-offending, but she was ordered to pay the court £1,800.

30th March 2021

A sixteen-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted to four counts of inviting support for the proscribed neo-Nazi terror group, National Action, as well as three counts of encouraging terrorism and four counts of stirring racial and religious hatred. The teenager, from Newcastle, called himself Hitler on numerous social media platforms and an online group that he created glorifying far-right violence, and had posted antisemitic and anti-Muslim material and created stickers with his group’s logo, which he disseminated in his local area.

North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court, sitting as a youth court, sentenced the teenager to a twelve-month intensive referral order. He will also be subject to terrorism notification requirements for ten years, mandating him to inform the authorities of his whereabouts and certain activities.

8th February 2021

A sixteen-year-old neo-Nazi teenager admitted two counts of dissemination of terrorist documents and ten of possession of terrorist material, after he downloaded his first bombmaking manual at thirteen, and joined the far-right Fascist Forge. In 2018 and 2019, he expressed antisemitic, racist and anti-gay views online, reportedly talking about “gassing” Jewish people and hanging gay people. He is also believed to have been in contact with the founder of the proscribed neo-Nazi terror group Feuerkrieg Division. His home was searched and police found a Nazi flag, a racist slogan on the garden shed and manuals on his computer and phone about making weapons. He is also understood to have recruited other young people to the cause.

The teenager, who became the UK’s youngest terror offender, received a two-year youth rehabilitation order, after the judge told the Old Bailey that a custodial sentence would “undo” the progress made since the teenager was arrested in July 2019.

13th January 2021

Louis Mann, 28, was filmed giving a racist rant and performing Nazi salutes towards a family member of Holocaust victims on a flight from Warsaw to Liverpool on 19th October 2019. Mann, a medical student from Morecambe studying in Poland, was allegedly under the influence of alcohol during the incident. He admitted being drunk on the plane but denied a charge of racially aggravated harassment. The court found him to have “entrenched racist views” and upheld the drunkenness charge, increasing the sentence to reflect the racial element.

Mann was handed an eight month sentence, suspended for two years, and 20 Rehabilitation Activity Requirements. The judge did not apply a punitive element due to the Mann’s mental health. A victim surcharge was also applied.

13

antisemitic hate crime cases prosecuted

18

antisemitic criminals convicted

10,679

total hate crime cases prosecuted

23rd December 2020

Luke Hunter, 23 and of Newcastle, admitted seven charges of encouraging terrorism and disseminating terrorist publications at Leeds Crown Court. He was reportedly tied to the neo-Nazi Feuerkrieg Division, which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation, and apparently produced hundreds of hours of podcasts, multitudes of graphic designs, and dozens of stylised fascist videos” which were disseminated across his websites, numerous Twitter accounts, YouTube, Instagram, Discord and Telegram, on which he had over 1,200 subscribers. Among the posts were material promoting the murder of Jews, non-white people and homosexuals.

Hunter was sentenced to four years and two months in prison.

25th November 2020

Nicholas Nelson, 31, admitted to three charges of sending communications of an offensive nature in mid-2018 via telephone calls and e-mails to the Jewish women MPs Dame Margaret Hodge and Dame Louise Ellman, as well as Lord Mann, who was then a Labour MP. All three Labour MPs were critics of Jeremy Corbyn. This conviction was not Nelson’s first offence: in 2018, he was sentenced to twenty weeks in jail – suspended for a year – for harassing another two Jewish Labour MPs, Luciana Berger and Ruth Smeeth, both of whom were victims of significant levels of antisemitic abuse while in Parliament.

Westminster Magistrates’ Court sentenced Nelson to twenty weeks in prison, suspended for eighteen months, as well as a 30-day rehabilitation order, 240 hours of unpaid work and £200 in victim surcharge and costs.

6th November 2020

Paul Dunleavy, a seventeen-year-old teenager from Rugby who was involved in the neo-Nazi Feuerkrieg Division group pleaded not guilty to preparing acts of terrorism at Birmingham Crown Court. The court was told that he had to pass a test to prove his hatred of Jews, he had “graphic” video footage of a terrorist attack on his telephone, had praised terrorists, and had searched the internet for information about guns, including how to convert a gun that fires blanks into a live weapon. Jurors wer also told that he had adopted Nazi and white supremacist ideology and participated in far-right chat rooms where he aspired to leading his own “local unit” and called for volunteers.

Dunleavy was sentenced to five years and six months in jail, with the judge describing his terrorist efforts as “inept”.

2nd November 2020

Harry Vaughan, 18, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to fourteen terror charges and two charges of possessing indecent images of children. Vaughan was said to have begun taking an interest in Satanic neo-Nazism at the age of fourteen. In 2018, he applied to join the System Resistance Network, a white supremacist successor to National Action, which the Government proscribed as a terrorist organisation in 2016 following a long campaign by Campaign Against Antisemitism and others. In a counter-terrorism operation, his laptop was seized, revealing documents relating to antisemitism, Satanism and neo-Nazism, as well as as far-right terrorist book, bomb-making manuals and materials from the Sonnenkrieg Division, a proscribed neo-Nazi organisation. Police also discovered videos of child abuse.

Vaughan was given a two-year prison sentence suspended for two years. He was also ordered to attend a rehabilitation programme.

16th September 2020

Paul Biaylock and Ian Routledge pleaded guilty to racially aggravated disorderly behaviour after they shouted “go back to where you came from” at a group of Jews wearing skullcaps on a Carlisle train.

They were fined at Carlisle and District Magistrates’ Court in Rickergate, with Biaylock ordered to pay £200 and Routledge given a £250 fine. Both also incurred additional costs and a victim surcharge. The fines were higher owing to the racial element of the offences.

10th August 2020

David Holmes, 63, was arrested after Derbyshire Police identified it from a fingerprint on the neo-Nazi stickers, including phrases such as “Hitler was right” and “Muslim scum out”, that he was affixing to bus stops and street furniture around the county. He admitted his actions and was let out on bail, during which time he displayed Ku Klux Klan and Confederate flags in his window and left racist messages for his neighbours, invoking Nazis, and threatened one of them. He was rearrested and appeared at Derby Crown Court, where he had previously pleaded to numerous charges, including racially aggravated harassment, racially aggravated criminal damage and witness intimidation.

Holmes was jailed for twelve months, given a two-year restraining order not to contact his neighbour and a two-year criminal behaviour order prohibiting him from placing stickers on any items visible to other people.

21st July 2020

Two brothers aged fifteen and sixteen attacked a 54-year-old senior rabbi visiting the UK from Israel for a wedding. They shouted “f*** Jews” and “dirty Jew” during the attack on Shabbat in November 2019 in Stamford Hill before running off laughing. The rabbi was left with an injured back and a bleeding finger and immediately left the UK. The teenagers surrendered to a police station the following month after CCTV footage of the attack was released, and they were charged with racially aggravated common assault.

The two brothers, who pleaded not guilty at Stratford Magistrates’ Court, were sentenced by Stratford Youth Court. They were given a twelve-month Youth Rehabilitation Order and sentenced to an electronically-monitored curfew from 06:00 to 18:00 for just 30 days, as well as a victim surcharge of £21 each. They were also both ordered to attend a ten-day Diversity Awareness Programme.

9th June 2020

Alice Cutter, 23, used the name “Buchenwald Princess” to enter the online “National Action Miss Hitler 2016” contest in June 2016 in order to attract new members to the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action. Cutter, of Sowerby Bridge near Halifax, had also disseminated antisemitic and racist material and had joked about gassing synagogues and using a Jew’s head as a football. Her entrance into the beauty pageant came just weeks after her then-partner, Mark Jones, 25 and also from Sowerby Bridge, performed a Hitler salute on a visit to the execution chamber of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Jones was reportedly a “leader and strategist” of the organisation and a former member fo the BNP’s youth wing. Both were convicted with membership of a proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist organisation, along with Garry Jack, 24 and from Birmingham, who reportedly self-identifies as a Nazi, and Connor Scothern, 19 and fromNottingham, who was apparently a practicing Muslim and activist with the extremist anti-fascist group, Antifa, before joining National Action.

All four defendants were found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court, with Cutter being sentenced to there years in prison and Jones to five-and-a-half years. Jack was given four-and-a-half years in prison and Southern a sentence of eighteen months in jail. (Another defendant, Daniel Ward, 28, pleaded guilty to being a member of National Action last year and was jailed for three years.) Southern’  sentence was later halved by the Court of Appeal, on the basis that he was aged fifteen and sixteen during his membership of National Action in 2016-17 but nineteen when he was sentenced, so the court quashed the original eighteen-month sentence and replaced it with nine months’ detention in a Young Offenders’ Institution.

Mohsin Rasool was a Labour Party activist in a dossier containing numerous names and incidents to be prosecuted. The dossier was publicised by LBC and referred to the Metropolitan Police by Campaign Against Antisemitism. Rasool was charged with sending on 26th February 2020 by means of a public electronic communications network a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character, contrary to section 127(1)(a) and (3) of the Communications Act 2003.

Rasool pleaded not guilty, subsequently changing his plea to guilty on 8th June 2020. He was sentenced to an England and Wales Community Order, which included a nine-week curfew requirement. He was also ordered to pay the Victim Surcharge of £60 and costs of £150 to the CPS.

March 2020

Adam Cassidy, 20, confronted a Jewish family in broad daylight in August 2019 on a busy high street in St Albans, calling the parents “dirty Jews” and attacking their baby in its pram. He also kicked hoarding at the family. The altercation was filmed and the footage went viral. Raised in Egypt, Cassidy claimed in his defence that the victims had called him a “dirty Arab” first, a contention that the judge did not believe. Cassidy was found guilty of racially aggravated assault and of using an antisemitic slur.

Cassidy was sentenced to six weeks in prison. The judge said that a community order was not imposed because, as it was a racially aggravated office, the sentence was uplifted. No costs order was issued due to limited means.

February 2020

Andrew Prendergast, 47, broke into Blackpool Reform Synagogue on 19th November 2019, leaving his blood strewn across walls, offices and the prayer hall. He had also damaged the alarm in a bid to destroy it. He told police officers: “synagogue, synagogue, f***ing blow them up. We don’t want them f***ers over here. I’m f***ing English and f***ing proud,” reportedly admitting to them that burglary was religiously motivated. He pleaded guilty to burglary and racially aggravated criminal damage and appeared at Preston Crown Court to be sentenced. According to the defence, he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and a breakdown and was on drugs at the time.

Prendergast was sentenced to eight months consecutively for burglary and racially aggravated criminal damage suspended for two years, and was ordered to carry out 50 rehabilitation days and a nine-month drug rehabilitation requirement.

16th January 2020

A teenager pleaded guilty at Highbury Corner Youth Court to racially and religiously aggravated common assault after setting a Jewish passenger’s hair on fire while using racist epithets. The incident took place in March 2018 on the number 210 bus. The then-fourteen-year-old asked the victim: “are you a P**i or a Jew?” He then proceeded to singe the victim’s hair and, when confronted by the victim, said: “Are you Jewish? You can’t be Jewish because you don’t have horns. Do Jews keep money under their caps?” The teenager also threatened to beat up the victim and smash the laptop that he was working on.

The teenager was sentenced to a four-month youth rehabilitation order and ordered to write a letter of apology to the victim and pay him £100 in compensation. The fourth month of rehabilitation was due to the racist nature of the attack. The teenager was also given an activity requirement of eight hours and one-to-one behavioural sessions with educational staff to combat racial discrimination.

7th January 2020

Jack Reed, 17, had begun drafting a manifesto titled “A Manual for practical and sensible guerrilla warfare against the kike system in the Durham City area, Sieg Heil”. Other items seized from the teenager’s Durham home included a copy of Mein Kampf and material on explosives and firearms. He was charged with preparation of terrorist acts between October 2017 and March 2019. The prosecution claimed that he had become an adherent of neo-Nazism and described Hitler as a “brave man”, confiding to his diary that he hoped to follow in the Nazi leader’s footsteps. A unanimous jury found him guilty.

Reed was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court to six years and eight months in prison, and was also given a separate custodial sentence for unrelated child sexual offences against a schoolgirl. (A year after the case, following Mr Reed’s eighteenth birthday, a judge ruled that it was permissible to name him.)

16

antisemitic hate crime cases prosecuted

17

antisemitic criminals convicted

10,950

total hate crime cases prosecuted

2nd December 2019

Andreas Dowling called in more than 100 bomb hoaxes, targeting schools, colleges and police stations in the UK, US and Canada. The court heard that Jewish schools were an “over-represented” target of the hoax calls, and he taunted them by telling them that a bomb would go off at 4:20 pm, a reference to Adolf Hitler’s birthday on 20th April. He pleaded guilty to 130 counts of communicating false information with intent.










Dowling was sentenced by Exeter Crown Court to four years and five months in prison.

28th November 2019

Sam Hemmati admitted bombarding numerous Jewish victims with antisemitic messages on several social media platforms and stalking and harassing eight women between September 2018 and March 2019, because of their religion. He also pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated robbery of a Jewish man in London back in July.










Hemmati was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to three years’ imprisonment for all of the offences.

4th November 2019

Dan Zaharia subjected a psychologist and his family to a decade-long campaign of antisemitic abuse, threats of murder and sexual violence. Zaharia pleaded guilty at Chester Crown Court on 9th September to one count of malicious communications. Two previous charges – relating to religiously-aggravated stalking and simple stalking – were deleted from the indictment after he agreed to the malicious communication charge.








Zaharia was sentenced to nineteen months’ imprisonment and was ordered to pay a victim surcharge. He was also given an indefinite restraining order to protect the victim and his family.

20th September 2019

Shehroz Iqbal displayed antisemitic posters outside a synagogue in Gants Hill and at Gants Hill Underground Station underpass in March 2017. He was charged with displaying written material that is threatening, abusive or insulting, intending thereby to stir up racial hatred, contrary to section 19 of the Public Order Act. Iqbal had been convicted twice before for similar offences against the Jewish community in London, including making death threats to a Jewish motorist and sending antisemitic e-mails.








He pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court and was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, suspended for 24 months. He was also given 30’ days Rehabilitation Activity Requirement and 60 hours’ unpaid work, as well as a £100 fine.

20th September 2019

Jacek Tchorzewski was stopped by police at Luton Airport, where violent documents were found on his mobile phone alongside images of extreme right-wing material and symbols.He was connected with the neo-Nazi organisation, Sonnenkrieg Division, and described himself in a document as one of “the most radical Nazis.” He also possessed several books concerned with achieving National Socialist political goals through political violence and acts of terrorism. He was charged with ten counts of possession of a document or record containing information of use to a terrorist, contrary to section 58 (1) (b) of the Terrorism Act 2000.








Tchorzewski was sentenced at the Old Bailey to four years’ imprisonment.

5th September 2019

Nathan Worrell, 46, displayed racist stickers on lampposts, signs and noticeboards in 2017 and 2018, including designs that promoted Combat 18, a violent antisemitic neo-Nazi organisation. His home was “stuffed full” of Nazi and Ku Klux Klan material. Worrell was previously imprisoned in 2008 for racially aggravated harassment and possessing terrorist material after persistently threatening an interracial couple and collecting bomb manuals and chemicals. On this occasion, he was charged with eleven offences, including possessing, publishing or distributing material to stir up racial hatred and five of stirring up racial hatred and of possessing material for terrorist purposes.








Worrell was found guilty on eight of the charges at Grimsby Crown Court and sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.

4th September 2019

Mr Lorinczi threw glass bottles at two Jewish men and shouted comments about Hitler in Stamford Hill in August 2019. He pleaded guilty to racially/religiously aggravated common assault.








Lorinczi was sentenced at Holborn Magistrates Court to six months in prison, suspended for eighteen months, a three-month alcohol treatment requirement and 30 days’ Rehabilitation Activity Requirements. He was also ordered to pay £100 for criminal damage and £200 compensation to the victims.

3rd September 2019

David Aherne shouted “one, two, three, Heil Hitler” and “go have a sausage sandwich” at a Jewish family on the 149 bus in the vicinity of Stamford Hill in North London. When the victims tried to prevent Aherne from alighting until the police arrived, he threatened to pull down his trousers in front of the family. He was charged under Section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986 and pleaded guilty at Wood Green Crown Court to one count of causing racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress and one count of causing religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress.






Aherne was sentenced to twelve weeks’ imprisonment.

August 2019

Rahan Rahman, 27, was intoxicated when he told a police officer, “I bet you are a Jew,” when he was being held in Bridewall police station on 3rd July. Rahan, of Nottingham, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court.






Rahan was fined £200 and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs as well as a £32 surcharge. He is also voluntarily undertaking support groups for alcoholism.

5th July 2019

Triston Morgan carried out an arson attack on Exeter Synagogue and admitted encouraging terrorism by publishing a song entitled “White Man” to a  live-streaming website. Morgan also collecting information for terrorist purposes, including a copy of the “White Resistance Manual”.  When arrested, Morgan was found to be in possession of antisemitic, white supremacist and neo-Nazi propaganda, including material promoting Holocaust denial, “ethnic cleansing” and “Jewish global power”. He also possessed 24 knives, including a hunting knife, a sword and the axe that he used in the synagogue attack. The case was first heard at Exeter Crown Court, but following the revelations of Morgan’s far-right connections, a further hearing was held at Westminster Magistrates’ Court where he was charged with two counts of terrorism, as well as an arson attempt and an attempt to endanger life. At a further hearing at the Old Bailey, Morgan pleaded guilty to encouraging terrorism and collecting information for terrorist purposes.






Morgan was sentenced to an indeterminate hospital order before a potential release can be considered by the court. He was also sentenced to a ten-year terrorist notification order.

June 2019

Shane Pegg, an ex-employee of a steel company based in London, made antisemitic comments towards the owner and another employee at the gate of the premises. He also etched a swastika into a piece of metal belonging to the company and wrote abusive words on plastic sheeting. At Highbury Magistrates’ Court, he pleaded guilty to racially aggravated criminal damage for the swastika and to criminal damage for the abusive words, but not guilty to racially aggravated abusive behaviour for the antisemitic comments at the gate. He was found guilty of the third charge, and, due to the racially aggravated nature of the case, it was sent to the Crown Court for sentencing.




Pegg was sentenced to 140 hours’ unpaid work and twenty days’ Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, and was ordered to pay £100 compensation and £85 surcharge.

18th June 2019

Michal Szewczuk, 19, and Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18, were members of the Sonnenkrieg Division, a neo-Nazi group. Both Szewczuk and Dunn-Koczorowski posted propaganda that encouraged terrorist attacks and suggested targets that included Jews and non-whites. They also glorified the Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Breivik, suggested that Prince Harry should be shot for being a “race traitor,” and said that white women who date with non-white men should be hanged.

Szewczuk pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey (via videolink from HMP Belmarsh) to one count under Section 1 (encouraging terrorism) and five counts under Section 58 (possession of material likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism) of the Terrorism Act 2006 and was sentenced to four years and three months in prison, while Dunn-Koczorowski pleaded guilty to two counts under Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006 and was sentenced to an eighteen-month detention and training order.

17th May 2019

Jack Renshaw, 23, a self-proclaimed Nazi, pleaded guilty in June 2018 at the Old Bailey to preparing acts of terrorism after planning to murder his local MP, Rosie Cooper, wiht a knife. Renshaw had also threatened a police officer investigating him.




Renshaw was jailed for life, to serve a minimum of twenty years.

April 2019

Alkarim Versi, a local resident, approached a synagogue in Hendon, North London, and started behaving erratically, intimidating the security officers and making abusive gestures. He was convicted of racially aggravated intentional harassment at Harrow Crown Court.

Versi was handed a three-month prison sentence, suspended for fifteen months, and a £115 victim surcharge. He was also required to undertake rehabilitation activity.

27th February 2019

Jemeail Isaac from New Cross was found guilty of racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment at Stratford Magistrates’ Court after screaming “Hitler should kill you” and other insults at children.

Isaac was fined £140.

3rd January 2019

James Malcolm pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, maliciously damaging headstones (having caused £27,000 of damage to 27 headstones, nearby which was found a swastika scrawled on a piece of glass) and scribbling offensive slogans after drawing antisemitic and neo-Nazi symbols (including a Star of David being hung on gallows) on an MSP’s office. He also yelled “Heil Hitler” at a sixteen-year-old in a park and vandalised two national parks and a police cell with his own blood, drawing swastikas. Nazi and antisemitic slogans, including “death to all Jews” and “death to all non-whites” were found on the walls in his home.

Malcolm was jailed for two years and four months at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

24

antisemitic hate crime cases prosecuted

28

antisemitic criminals convicted

12,828

total hate crime cases prosecuted

18th December 2018

Adam Thomas, 22, was found guilty of being a member of the neo-Nazi National Action, which was proscribed as a terrorist organisation at the culmination of a long campaign by Campaign Against Antisemitism and others. Thomas stood trial with his partner, Claudia Patatas, and Daniel Bogunovic, who were also convicted of the same charge alongside him at Birmingham Crown Court. The couple gave their son the middle name “Adolf” and owned a large collection of Nazi and far-right memorabilia.

Thomas was jailed for six years and six months, Patatas for five years and Bogunovic for six years and four months. Three other men had also pleaded guilty to membership of the group.

14th November 2018

Joseph Brogan from Gorton had two previous convictions for racially aggravated offences before shouting “child killers” and “you people should live in Israel” at demonstrators at a rally against antisemitism in Manchester in September 2018, as well as performing a Nazi salute towards them.

Brogan was jailed for six months by Manchester Crown Court.

30th October 2018

Two teenage boys pleaded guilty to racially/religiously aggravated public order and assault at Medway Magistrates’ Court after throwing stones at a Jewish family on Minster beach in Kent and shouting “Jews” at them.

The teenagers were sentenced to a Youth Rehabilitation Order for twelve months, as well as 160 hours of unpaid work, supervision by the Probation Service for twelve months and a 19:00-07:00 curfew for four months.

3rd September 2018

Leighton Johnson from Swansea was captured making a Nazi salute to Tottenham Hotspur supporters at Liberty Stadium in April 2017. Johnson denied causing racially aggravated alarm or distress and claimed that he was merely waving to a family member about going for a cigarette.

Johnson was sentenced by Swansea Crown Court to 150 hours of unpaid work and a twelve-month community order, was ordered to pay £1,085 in costs and was banned from Swansea City home matches for three years.

22nd August 2018

Alberto Busalacchi repeatedly shouted “Heil Hitler” at local Jews and shoplifted at a kosher bakery in Stamford Hill in January 2018.

Busalacchi pleaded guilty to racially or religiously aggravated harassment and theft at Stratford Magistrates’ Court and was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for twelve months, and ordered to pay £400 victim compensation.

21st August 2018

Austin Ross of Newport set fire to his old secondary school and a Masonic hall (which had a Star of David on the front), causing tens of thousands of pounds of damage, and spray-painted swastikas on a church, school, the University of South Wales campus and other local landmarks around his hometown. His Facebook account also contained links to a Hitler Youth account.

Ross pleaded guilty to fifteen charges, including arson, racially aggravated harassment and racially aggravated damage, and was jailed for six years by Cardiff Crown Court.

16th August 2018

Peter Morgan, a far-right extremist, was convicted in Scotland of preparing acts of terrorism after being found with a bomb-making kit in his flat, along with antisemitic, anti-Muslim and neo-Nazi materials. This included al-Qaeda and IRA literature and a racist and antisemitic novel that inspired numerous historic terrorist attacks. No target for the bombing was identified.

The High Court in Edinburgh jailed Morgan for twelve years and a further three years under licence.

9th August 2018

Jonathan Jennings from Carmarthenshire posted a number of messages on the Gab social networking website in which he threatened the Jewish community, Muslims and public figures. He had threatened Jews that if they did not behave themselves they would share the same fate as Muslims. Another message stated that Hitler was born too soon.

Jennings was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court to sixteen months’ imprisonment after having pleaded guilty to six counts of publishing or distributing written material intended to stir up religious hatred, contrary to section 29C of the Public Order Act 1986, and four counts of sending communications with intent to cause distress or anxiety, contrary to section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988.

19th July 2018

Jack Coulson, 19, of Mexborough but living in Bradford at the time, constructed a pipe bomb in his bedroom which was filled with Nazi memorabilia. He was a member of the neo-Nazi National Action terror group and had downloaded The Big Book Of Mischief to his phone after allegedly boasting about wanting to kill a female MP. The 60-page manual provides information on building weapons. According to prosecutors, Mr Coulson claimed that “all Jews should be exterminated”, while he was attending preventative intervention programmes.

Coulson was found guilty at Leeds Crown Court of constructing an explosive device and admitted possessing a document or record for terror purposes, and was sent to youth custody for four years and eight months.

18th July 2018

Christopher Lythgoe, 32, of Warrington, and Matthew Hankinson, 24, of Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, were convicted of membership in the neo-Nazi National Action group, which was proscribed as a terrorist organisation at the culmination of a long campaign by Campaign Against Antisemitism and others. Lythgoe, the leader of the group, was found not guilty of encouragement to murder for allegedly giving Jack Renshaw, 23, of Skelmersdale, Lancashire, permission to kill Rosie Cooper MP on behalf of the group. Jurors at the Old Bailey were unable to decide whether Renshaw, Michal Trubini, 35, from Warrington or Andrew Clarke, 33, from Prescot, Merseyside were guilty of membership in National Action, and found Garron Helm, 24, from Seaforth in Merseyside not guilty of being a member of the group.

Lythgoe was jailed for eight years and Hankinson for six years.

15th July 2018

Sheroz Iqbal sent antisemitic e-mails to members of the North London Orthodox Jewish community. The e-mails included references to “Your Zionist murdering community.” Stamford Hill Shomrim, the Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol, reported the incident to the Metropolitan Police Service. Iqbal was previously convicted after pleading guilty to making antisemitic death threats in September 2016 and was given a suspended sentence in that case of sixteen weeks’ imprisonment and 80 hours’ unpaid work.

Iqbal was sentenced at Thames Magistrates’ Court to eleven weeks in jail suspended for eighteen months and 60 hours’ unpaid community work, and was fined £115 and required to pay £85 court costs.

13th July 2018

Husnain Rashid, a 34-year-old ISIS supporter from Lancashire, made repeated calls to murder British citizens, sending instructions in 300,000 posts on the heavily-encrypted Telegram network in just eighteen months and urging Islamists to wage jihad by murdering Jews.

Rashid was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court on three counts of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, and one count of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, and was sentenced to life in prison, of which he must serve at least 25 years.

June 2018

Bashir Shamraize, a 34-year-old business-owner from Bradford, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated threatening behaviour following an antisemitic rant on a flight from Tel Aviv to Manchester, which he blamed on smoking cannabis during Ramadan.

Shamraize was ordered by Manchester Magistrates’ Court to complete a twelve-month community order, 100 hours’ unpaid work, attend a course to address his cannabis use and pay £505 in costs.

June 2018

Stephen Panagi gave a Nazi salute and shouted “Heil Hitler” from his car at parents taking children into the Wolfson Hillel Primary School in Southgate, North London on 20 April 2018, a significant date in neo-Nazi circles as it was Hitler’s birthday.

Panagi was sentenced to 100 hours’ unpaid community service after pleading guilty. He was also ordered to pay £50 in compensation, a £85 surcharge, £85 in costs and to attend a session on Holocaust education.

14th June 2018

Holocaust revisionist, Alison Chabloz, from Glossop in Derbyshire, penned and sang three songs mocking Holocaust survivors and claiming that the Holocaust was a Jewish fraud. The songs were uploaded to YouTube. The lyrics included: “Did the Holocaust ever happen? Was it just a bunch of lies? Seems that some intend to pull the wool over our eyes. Eternal wandering liars haven’t got a clue, and when it comes to usury, victim’s always me and you”; “Now Auschwitz, holy temple, is a theme park just for fools, the gassing zone a proven hoax, indoctrination rules”; “Tell us another, come on, my brother, reap it, the cover, for tribal gain. Safe in our tower, now is the hour, money and power, we have no shame”; and “History repeats itself, no limit to our wealth, thanks to your debts we’re bleeding you dry. We control your media, control all your books and TV, with the daily lies we’re feeding, suffering victimisation. Sheeple have no realisation, you shall pay, all the way, until the break of day.” Chabloz was convicted in the first case of its kind, following a private prosecution by Campaign Against Antisemitism, which the CPS eventually agreed to take over.

District Judge John Zani found Chabloz guilty on all counts of criminal offences under the Communications Act at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. She was sentenced to a twenty-week prison sentence suspended for two years, 180 hours of unpaid community service and an indefinite restraining order against contacting two leaders of Campaign Against Antisemitism, as well as an order banning her from social media for twelve months. She was also ordered to pay a £115 victim surcharge, and costs of £600.

23rd May 2018

Wayne Bell, a prominent member of National Action before it was banned in 2016, published hundreds of posts on Twitter and a Russian social media site, including one which described Jewish people as “destructive” and “vile”. Neo-Nazi National Action was proscribed a terrorist organisation at the culmination of a long campaign by Campaign Against Antisemitism and others. Bell had also daubed neo-Nazi graffiti on pillars and lamp posts in his hometown of Castleford. His online activity took place between March and December 2016 when he set up a profile on the Russian site VK using the pseudonym Celtic Raider. Among his postings was an image of a man being hanged by a rope with a Star of David on his forehead.

Bell was sentenced to four years and three months in jail at Leeds Crown Court. His sentence was added on to a 30-month jail term he is already serving for involvement in violent clashes with left-wing activists in Liverpool in 2016. 

17th May 2018

Jack Renshaw, 22, made speeches describing Jewish people as “parasites” and proclaimed himself a Nazi. Renshaw made a speech on Blackpool promenade in March 2016 at a far-right demonstration during which he stated that Hitler had got it wrong by showing mercy to Jewish people. In another speech at a far-right gathering in North Yorkshire, he said that Jewish people did not deserve to be shown any mercy and needed to be eradicated. He also showed support for the neo-Nazi National Action which was proscribed as a terrorist organisation after a long campaign by Campaign Against Antisemitism and others. The CPS decided to prosecute Renshaw after lawyers for Campaign Against Antisemitism wrote to declare our intention to launch a private prosecution.

Renshaw was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by Preston Crown Court for stirring up racial hatred and calling for the genocide of the Jewish people.

14th May 2018

Neo-Nazi leader Jeremy Bedford-Turner gave a speech in 2015 at a demonstration called to protest against the “Jewification” of Golders Green. In his speech to neo-Nazis, surrounded by police, Mr Bedford-Turner said that: “…all politicians are nothing but a bunch of puppets dancing to a Jewish tune, and the ruling regimes in the West for the last one hundred years have danced to the same tune.” Evoking medieval libels which claimed that Jews drank the blood of non-Jewish children, Mr Bedford-Turner told his followers, one third of whom were from the violent far-right National Rebirth of Poland group, that the French Revolution and both World Wars were massacres perpetrated by Jews. He concluded that England was “merry” during the period of the expulsion of Jews from England and demanded: “Let’s free England from Jewish control.” Campaign Against Antisemitism had to battle the CPS since 2015 to take on the case, eventually winning a landmark judicial review which forced the CPS to prosecute Mr Bedford-Turner.

Bedford-Turner was jailed for twelve months after being unanimously convicted by a jury of incitement to racial hatred at Southwark Crown Court.

23rd April 2018

Mark Meechan, who uses the online name Count Dankula, posted to YouTube a video of a dog he had trained to give Nazi salutes when it hears certain phrases, including “gas the Jews” and “Sieg Heil”. Meechan, a UKIP member from Coatbridge North Lanarkshire, denied committing an offence and said that he had made the video to annoy his girlfriend in April 2016. He subsequently attempted to overturn the conviction and sentence but was refused leave to appeal by the Sheriff Court in Edinburgh. In a YouTube video, Meechan suggested that he would refuse to pay the £800 fine by the October deadline or carry out any other punishment or community order that the court may impose. His appeal was refused in August.

Meehan was fined £800 at Airdrie Sheriff Court for an offence under the Communications Act.

6th April 2018

Aweys Shikhey, a delivery driver of Somali origin from Tottenham, discussed killing “the old woman Elizabeth” and former Prime Minister David Cameron and attacking Jewish football fans with an AK-47 at nearby White Hart Lane and Stamford Hill on online chat room. He also applied for loans to fund a trip to join ISIS, securing £10,000 from Barclays for a “wedding”.

Shikhey was convicted of preparing terrorist acts at the Old Bailey and jailed for eight years.

3rd March 2018

Lee Munns posted an antisemitic tweet in August 2017, in which he wrote that “Hitler isn’t the only one that can silence 70,000 Yids” after Chelsea F.C. beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 at Wembley Stadium.

Munns was sentenced to 70 hours supervised community service and a £85 fine after being found guilty of committing an offence under section 4a Public Order Act 1986.

16th February 2018

David Bitton, a 40-year-old from Altrincham, tweeted around 600 posts on Twitter over the course of one weekend in May 2016, many directed at Greater Manchester Police, making highly abusive and antisemitic, racist and anti-gay comments. In the police interview, Bitton claimed that he had only written the tweets in order to gain followers and deleted them soon after.

Bitton was jailed for four years by Minshull Street Crown Court after pleading guilty to thirteen separate charges of sending racist and threatening communications.

14th February 2018

Marcin Zych pleaded guilty to three driving offences and two charges of causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm and distress at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court following an incident on 28th January 2018 in which he had shouted “You f***ing Jew” at another motorist after crashing his car and failing to remain at the scene and provide a breath sample to police officers.

Zych was fined £250, ordered to pay court costs and £50 in compensation to his victim, sentenced to 100 hours of compulsory unpaid community work and disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 18 months, however he was offered a 4-month reduction in the period of disqualification if he satisfactorily completed a government-approved course.

11th January 2018

Jason Galvin, 46, from Oxford pleaded guilty to using a public communication network to cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety under section 127 of the Communication Act 2003 at Oxford Magistrates’ Court. He had sent messages such as “you Jewish f***ing c***” and “all you people are the same” on 21st April 2017 to a Jewish man whom he incorrectly believed had failed to pay for his plumbing services.

Galvin was ordered to pay a fine of £300, costs of £85, compensation of £100 and a victim surcharge £30. He was also referred to a restorative justice programme to facilitate an apology.

22

antisemitic hate crime cases prosecuted

24

antisemitic criminals convicted

14,151

total hate crime cases prosecuted

11th October 2017

Timothy Rustige, 68, of Altrincham, pleaded guilty to eight counts of criminal damage at Central Manchester Magistrates’ Court following a graffiti campaign between September 2016 and August 2017 that saw him scrawl slogans on the River Bollin Aqueduct in Dunham Massey. The graffiti included anti-Israel slogans such as “BDS” and “Gaza bleeds”, but also antisemitic slogans such as “ZioNazis”, accompanied by a Star of David.

Rustige was sentenced by magistrates to a 12-month community order with 140 hours of unpaid work, and he was ordered to pay £500 in compensation.

29th September 2017

Glenn Okafor, 32, of West Norwood, was convicted of two counts of religiously-aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress at Stratford Magistrates’ Court. At approximately 9:00 on 4th March 2017, as Jewish families walked to synagogue for Saturday morning prayers, he shouted: “F*** you Jewish people…you lot should go back to your own country” and “We will sort you out. I have friends. I’ll be back tomorrow. We will wipe you out.” In an apparent reference to a conspiracy theory that white Jews are in fact imposters and that the supposed real Jews are black, he also shouted: “We are the real Jews”.

Okafor was sentenced at Thames Magistrates’ Court to a 12-month community order with 200 hours of unpaid work, and he was ordered to pay £150 to his victims and costs of £620 to the Crown Prosecution Service.

11th September 2017

Allister ‘Ally’ Coutts was convicted of causing racially-aggravated intentional alarm and distress at Aberdeen Sheriff Court for intimidating a Jewish businessman and telling security guards that ISIS is controlled by Mossad, the Israeli spy agency.

Coutts was ordered to pay a fine of £175.

11th September 2017

José Manuel Silva was convicted of racially and religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm, distress and criminal damage, including shouting “burn” at Jewish passersby, including children, in Golders Green in London.

Silva was sentenced to 28 days in prison and ordered to pay costs of £85 and a fine of £165.

7th September 2017

Richard Reed was convicted of religiously-aggravated harassment at Ipswich Magistrates’ Court for shouting “I’m going to kill you f***ing Jews, I know where you are” and making gun gestures at a recognisably Jewish man who had entered a pub in Suffolk with friends on 5th August 2017. The landlady called the police, who arrested Reed at the scene.

Reed was fined £300 and ordered to pay court costs of £85, a victim surcharge of £30 and compensation of £100.

5th September 2017

Ineta Winiarski, 33, was convicted of three counts of racially-aggravated assault at Thames Magistrates’ Court. On 3rd July 2017, she approached Jewish wedding guests who her husband was already attacking and whipped Ben Herbst with a dog’s leash and shouted “F***ing Jew”. Ben Herbst’s father, Israel Herbst rushed to protect his son from the attack and was hit by Winiarski in the shoulder. She shouted antisemitic abuse throughout the incident, including shouting “Kurwa” (a Polish expletive) and reportedly telling the Jewish wedding guests in broken English: “Dog stay here England, you Jews go away.”

Winiarski was sentenced to 12-weeks in prison, suspended for a year, as well as being ordered to participate in a rehabilitation programme lasting no longer than 20 days. She was also ordered to pay £40 to each of her three victims, as well as £230 in victim surcharges, and £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.

5th September 2017

Kasimiersz Winiarski, 62, was convicted of two counts of common assault at Thames Magistrates’ Court for attacking guests at a Jewish wedding along with his wife on 3rd July 2017.

Winiarski was sentenced to 12-weeks in prison, suspended for a year, as well as being ordered to participate in a rehabilitation programme lasting no longer than 20 days. He was also ordered to pay £40 to each of his two victims, as well as £115 in victim surcharges, and £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.

11th August 2017

James Evans, 70, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment without violence at Worcester Crown Court for sending and hand delivering over 150 racist and offensive letters to his Member of Parliament between June 2016 and January 2017, often multiple times per day. In the letters he claimed that “Zionist Jews” are members of a “death cult” and they will “get us all killed in the Third World War”. It was his third such offence.

Evans was fined £250.

8th August 2017

Paul Pawlowski, 90, of Burgess Hill, was convicted of racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress at Brighton Magistrates’ Court for displaying a placard including the words: “Pull the chain, flush the Jew mafia down the drain” on the Old Steine, Brighton on 28th May 2017. He told the police officers who arrested him that if they took his antisemitic placard and leaflets, he would walk through the streets shouting his views.

Pawlowski was fined £150 and ordered to pay costs of £100 and a victim surcharge of £85.

24th July 2017

‘Christopher’ Charles Panayi was convicted of racially aggravated criminal damage over a road rage incident in January 2017 during which he stopped his car multiple times, exposed and parted his buttocks, called a Jewish man a “F***ing Jewish prick”, punched the Jewish man’s car window and smashed his wing mirror.

Panayi was ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid community service work, and to pay £1,000 in compensation and £620 in prosecution costs at Hendon Magistrates’ Court. He was also handed a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for a year.

3rd May 2017

Mark Harding, 48, of Walsall was convicted of sending offensive communications at Hendon Magistrates’ Court for telling a fan of a rival football team to “stick your head in the oven like the Jew you are” on Twitter in November 2016, and expressing hope that the fan would “die in a freak car accident”.

Harding was ordered to pay £150 compensation and perform 60 hours of community service. He was also given an 18-month suspended prison sentence.

26th April 2017

Michael Demetriou was convicted of racially aggravated harassment, alarm and distress for shouting “Heil Hitler” and “F***ing Jews” at Jewish victims in London in August 2016.

Demetriou was ordered to pay £640 in costs, and discharged on condition that he commits no further offences for six months.

10th March 2017

Lawrence Burns was found guilty of two charges of publishing threatening, abusive or insulting written material with intent or likely intent to stir up racial hatred by a jury at Cambridge Crown Court, over his efforts to spread “vile and offensive sentiments”. He spoke in a YouTube video memorialising American white supremacist leader David Lane, accusing Jews of being “parasites” that wanted to create a “mongrelised race”.

Burns was sentenced to four years in prison by a judge at Peterborough Crown Court. On appeal, his sentence was reduced to two-and-a-half-years.

2nd March 2017

Abdul Ahaed, 29, was arrested on 26th November 2016 after calling a hostel worker a “Black n*****”. He became very abusive to police and while at the police station, shouted “Jewish c***” on two separate occasions at a police officer. Ahaed pleaded guilty at Wood Green Crown Court to two counts of racially aggravated intentional harassment alarm and distress.

Ahaed was sentenced on 24th February 2017 to a 12-month community order, a 6-week curfew between 23:00 and 6:00, a 10-day rehabilitation activity requirement, a victim surcharge of £85 and payments of £100 each to the hostel worker and the police officer.

2nd March 2017

Jaroslaw Goloshko shouted “Heil Hitler” and performed a Nazi salute directed at Jewish passersby in Stamford Hill on Christmas Day 2016. He was spotted by volunteers from Shomrim Stamford Hill whilst out on patrol. They followed him and called the police who came and arrested him. Goloshko was convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence.

Goloshko failed to attend court for sentencing on 2nd March 2017 and a warrant for his arrest was issued.

26th February 2017

Sean Creighton, 45, of Enfield, was found to be in possession of the White Resistance Manual 2.4, which police described as the kind of document likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. One of Crieghton’s social media posts said “You will never catch me shedding a tear for a n****r, Jew, commie or queer.” One image he posted showed “a number of trees, from each of which is hung one or more Jewish people with the word ‘Jew’ placed upon them by way of a sign.”

Creighton was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for seven offences of incitement to racial hatred, and five years’ imprisonment for a terrorism offence, to run concurrently. He was also made subject to a notification order for 15 years.

22nd February 2017

Kristian Omilian, 30, stuck antisemitic stickers on a synagogue in Auckland Road, Cambridge, in November 2016. On 9th February, he pleaded guilty to a racially and religiously aggravated public order offence. 

Omillian has been sentenced to a 12-month community order. He was handed a restraining order which prevents him from stepping within 100 yards of the synagogues in Thompsons Lane and Auckland Road and he must participate in up to 15 days of rehabilitation activity and undertake 120 hours of unpaid work.

20th February 2017

Clive Wilson, 46, admitted shouting: “Shame Hitler didn’t finish the job, Heil Hitler, Heil Hitler, Allahu Akbar” at volunteers from Stamford Hill Shomrim who suspected him of involvement in burglaries. He had earlier denied the charge.

Wilson was fined £160 and made to pay a £30 victim surcharge and £85 in court costs.

14th February 2017

A 17-year-old neo-Nazi from Bradford and member of the proscribed terrorist organisation, National Action, who cannot be named for legal reasons, made a homemade pipe bomb in order to start an “all-out race war”. The boy, who praised the killer of Jo Cox MP, was arrested by the North East Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) in July 2016 after a member of the public alerted police to a series of Snapchat photos, including threats to British Jews and an image of the pipe bomb.

The boy was handed a three-year Youth Rehabilitation Order and ordered to receive intensive counselling from a deradicalisation expert.

12th February 2017

John Nimmo sent antisemitic messages to various Jewish people. One message to Luciana Berger MP, who is Jewish, said: “You are going to get it like Jo Cox did. So you better watch out Jewish scum” and included a photograph of a large kitchen knife.

Nimmo was sentenced to two years and three months in prison. He pleaded guilty to nine charges relating to grossly offensive, threatening and false communications. His sentence was increased on account of his convictions for previous similar offences and the racist nature of his messages.

2nd February 2017

Patrick Joseph Delany, 19, of Coggeshall, pelted Jewish shoppers, including a 13-year-old child, with 20 to 30 gas canisters and shouted “Hitler is coming, Heil Hitler, Heil Hitler, Heil Hitler” on 6th January 2016. He pleaded guilty to a charge of causing religiously-aggravated harassment, alarm or distress at Wood Green Crown Court.

Delaney was sentenced to six months in prison.

26th January 2017

Damian Filipek pleaded guilty to 18 counts of criminal damage and 2 counts of racially-aggravated criminal damage at Maidstone Crown Court following a drunken night out on 17th November 2016, during which, he and his friend, Sebastian Tancula, painted slogans on shops, homes, and a public toilet in Tunbridge Wells. The graffiti consisted of football slogans such as “Wisla Sharks” accompanied by “Amti Jude” meaning “anti-Jewish” and a star of David. In Poland the fans of Wisla Sharks are infamous for violence and antisemitism.

Filipek was sentenced to 22 weeks in prison.

26th January 2017

Sebastian Tancula pleaded guilty to 18 counts of criminal damage and 2 counts of racially-aggravated criminal damage at Maidstone Crown Court following a drunken night out on 17th November 2016, during which, he and his friend, Damian Filipek, painted slogans on shops, homes, and a public toilet in Tunbridge Wells. The graffiti consisted of football slogans such as “Wisla Sharks” accompanied by “Amti Jude” meaning “anti-Jewish” and a star of David. In Poland the fans of Wisla Sharks are infamous for violence and antisemitism.

Tancula was sentenced to 22 weeks in prison.

18th January 2017

Daren Thomas, of Westcliffe-on-Sea, sent a series of antisemitic death threats to a Jewish man, also threatening his wife and children, between July and August 2016. One message said: “Have you seen inglorious barstard’ [victim’s name]? The swastika on the forehead is a nice touch! Nazi jew boy!” His messages made multiple mentions of the victim’s family, including: “I’m going to find your home retard. I know your married, and God, I hope you have kids!! I want them to see you on your f***ing knees!” Thomas was convicted of religiously-aggravated harassment.

Thomas was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months conditional on his undertaking a behavioural training course. A restraining order was also put in place directing that he should not attempt to make contact with the victim and he was also ordered to pay a £300 victim surcharge.

20

antisemitic hate crime cases prosecuted

22

antisemitic criminals convicted

14,480

total hate crime cases prosecuted

19th December 2016

Vandell Brooks, 39, who has a history of racism, pleaded guilty to shouting: “F***ing Jewish c***”  at volunteers from Stamford Hill Shomrim who suspected her of involvement in burglaries.

Brooks was fined £200, plus a £30 victim surcharge and £85 in court costs.

15th December 2016

Philip Anthony Kuegler entered a branch of Tesco on 15th September 2016 where he assaulted staff and hurled a bottle at a police officer whilst shouting antisemitic abuse. He pleaded guilty to a charge of using religiously aggravated threatening words or behaviour to cause fear of violence and to assaulting a police officer at Llandrindod Wells Magistrates’ Court.

Kuegler was handed a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years, despite being a repeat offender. He was also ordered to complete 20 rehabilitation activity days and five hate crime sessions, pay the police officer £300 in compensation and pay a £115 victim surcharge.

8th December 2016

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, a neo-Nazi, was convicted by a jury of racially-aggravated harassment under Section 32 (1)(a) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. He was tried over the racially-aggravated harassment of Jewish MP Luciana Berger.

Bonehill-Paine was sentenced to an additional two years in prison until at least April 2018, when he becomes eligible for release on licence. At the time, he was already serving a three year and four month sentence for his efforts to incite antisemitic demonstrations against the “Jewification” of parts of London.

25th November 2016

Fabian Richardson, a fan of Chelsea Football Club, was convicted for performing 13 Nazi salutes in 15 minutes at a football match between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur in May 2015.

Richardson was banned from football grounds for three years and ordered to pay £365. He was also banned by Chelsea Football Club indefinitely.

17th November 2016

Herminio Martinez, 86, was convicted for racially aggravated threatening behaviour after launching into an antisemitic tirade on 8th February 2016 following a city planning meeting at which Jewish businessmen were permitted to construct a block of flats.

Martinez was handed a two-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £625 prosecution costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

November 2016

Mr Bracey pleaded guilty to sending a grossly offensive antisemitic message to his neighbour, contrary to section 127 of the Communications Act 2003. He was convicted at North Wiltshire Magistrates’ Court.

Bracey was sentenced to a Community Order for 12 months to include 12 days complying with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.

28th October 2016

Stuart Birnie was convicted of crossing a road to confront a Jewish pedestrian and shouting: “Oi you go f*** yourself, I’m going to kill all the Jews” and “Jews produce too many kids” on 17th December 2015. He was found guilty at Wood Green Crown Court.

Birnie was sentenced to six months in prison.

21st October 2016

Shehroz Iqbal was convicted after making antisemitic death threats on 11th September 2016. Iqbal shouted “I’m going to kill you, I’m going to kill all of you Jews — you killed my brothers” at a Jewish motorist.

Iqbal pleaded guilty and was given a suspended sentence of 16 weeks’ imprisonment and 80 hours’ unpaid work.

9th September 2016

Mark Zahra was convicted after shouting “F***ing Jewish scum. Why do you keep calling them [the police], because he’s Muslim?” at volunteers from Stamford Hill Shomrim, a Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol who were in fact assisting a Muslim man following a burglary. He was found guilty at Wood Green Crown Court of racially aggravated intentional harassment alarm or distress under section 4A of the Public Order Act.

Zahra was sentenced to a 12-month Community Order and ordered to comply with a 4-month a curfew.

7th September 2016

Lee Savage was convicted of shouting “Shame Hitler didn’t kill all you Jews” and “Heil Hitler” at a Jewish family walking with their children in Haringey on 8th November 2015. He was found guilty at Wood Green Crown Court.

Savage was sentenced to 6 months in prison. He was not ordered to pay a fine, court costs or a victim surcharge.

23rd August 2016

Kamil Malmon, of Polish origin, wrote “F*** da juda” in pencil on the wall of Pinner Synagogue in June 2016. He was found guilty at Willesden Magistrates Court of racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage.

Malmon was given a 26 week prison sentence suspended for 12 months, and ordered to pay costs of £735.

10th August 2016

James Evans sent 17 antisemitic letters to BBC employees. In the letters, Evans referred to Jews as “Yids”, “Zionists” and claimed “Jewish people rule the world.” He was found guilty of breaching a restraining order, banned from entering BBC Hereford and Worcester and making contact with members of staff.

Evans was given a new four year restraining order, ordered to pay a fine of £150, a 12 month community order, pay court costs of £135, and a victim surcharge of £75.

15th July 2016

A 14-year-old boy, who could not be named because of his age, was arrested on 31st January 2016 in Stamford Hill after he put lit fireworks into the pockets of Jewish pedestrians as they passed him in the street. He was convicted by Hackney Youth Offender Panel of intentional harassment contrary to section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986.

The boy was sentenced to a one year referral order and ordered to pay £20 compensation.

17th June 2016

Geoffrey Ingram was involved in a minor motoring incident in June 2015 on Regent Street in London where he intimidated the victim, readily identifying him as Jewish because the victim was wearing a kippah, and shouted a series of antisemitic insults and threats. He pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to racially aggravated abuse.

Ingram was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison, half on licence, and ordered to pay £250 in costs, £200 compensation and £80 victim surcharge.

14th June 2016

Wilberth Henry was convicted of antisemitic harassment and threats after shouting “I’ll f***ing beat you up, you f***ing Jewish c***”. Henry failed to attend court, but was convicted in his absence on evidence given by a member of Shomrim, the Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol.

Henry was sentenced to three months in prison.

10th March 2016

Richard Prendiville, a fan of West Ham United Football Club, was convicted under the Crime and Disorder Act of racially aggravated harassment alarm and distress for singing antisemitic football songs on a train.

Prendeville was fined £220 and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £23 plus £350 costs.

10th March 2016

A man named only as R. Peacock, a fan of West Ham United Football Club, was convicted under the Crime and Disorder Act of racially aggravated harassment alarm and distress for singing antisemitic football songs on a train.

Peacock was fined £270 and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £27 and £350 costs.

7th March 2016

David Gregory shouted antisemitic insults in the street in Derby on 14th November 2015 after the terrorist attacks in Paris the previous day. He made numerous antisemitic comments and other remarks about people with dark skin.

Gregory was ordered to perform 150 hours of unpaid work and told to pay £85 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.

9th February 2016

Darren Mark Lumb launched an antisemitic verbal attack in the street against Jon Trickett, Labour MP for Hemsworth in West Yorkshire, in January 2015. He pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court to one count of religiously aggravated harassment and stalking with fear of violence and one count of breaching an anti-social behaviour order.

Lumb was sentenced to a six-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.

21st January 2016

Rashal Miah, an Uber driver, abused the Jewish driver of a school bus full of children who asked him to reverse his car which was travelling the wrong way down a one-way street on 29th September 2014. Miah left his black Mercedes and threatened the Jewish man who was identifiable as Jewish from his clothing. Miah had pleaded “not guilty” to shouting: “Shut the f*** up, you f***ing Jew. I will slit your throat.” He went on to refer to the school van driver as “Yehudi” (Jew) and said: “I’m going to kill all the Jews.” He was found guilty of racially and religiously aggravated harassment.

Miah was sentenced to a six month suspended prison sentence. He was also ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and attend 15 days of ‘anger management’ training, as well as covering the prosecution costs of £900.

8th January 2016

Thomas Flynn, yelled abuse, mimicked the sound of hissing gas and made Nazi salutes at Tottenham Hotspur fans during a match at Southampton’s St Mary’s Stadium on 19th December 2015. He was convicted at Southampton Magistrates’ Court.

Flynn was handed a three-year banning order preventing him from attending games in Britain and requiring him to hand his passport to police before major games abroad. He was also handed a 12-week community order and curfew, banned from going within a mile of St Mary’s Stadium four hours before and after kick-off on matchdays, and ordered to pay £145 in costs.

8th January 2016

Michael Haydon, yelled abuse, mimicked the sound of hissing gas and made Nazi salutes at Tottenham Hotspur fans during a match at Southampton’s St Mary’s Stadium on 19th December 2015. He was convicted at Southampton Magistrates’ Court.

Haydon was handed a three-year banning order preventing him from attending games in Britain and requiring him to hand his passport to police before major games abroad. He was also handed a 12-week community order and curfew, banned from going within a mile of St Mary’s Stadium four hours before and after kick-off on matchdays, and ordered to pay £145 in costs.

12

antisemitic hate crime cases prosecuted

17

antisemitic criminals convicted

15,442

total hate crime cases prosecuted

16th December 2015

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, was unanimously convicted by a jury at Southwark Crown Court of incitement to racial hatred for calling for “anti-Jewification” demonstrations in neighbourhoods with large Jewish populations. The demonstrations ended after action by Campaign Against Antisemitism. His Honour Judge Leonard QC called materials produced by Bonehill-Paine “about the most inflammatory documents I will ever see,” adding, “With time I hope you can mature and see the harm you are doing.”

Bonehill-Paine was sentenced to three years and four months in prison.

22nd October 2015

Issa Khazaal was found guilty at City of London Magistrates’ Court of performing a Nazi salute directed at a group of Jewish people outside Selfridges on Oxford Street, London. The incident took place in September 2014 at a demonstration.

Khazaal was fined £660 (including £220 due to the racially-aggravated nature of the crime), and ordered to pay £150 in compensation and £777 costs.

2nd October 2015

Joseph Kelly,17, was convicted of an attack on four Jewish boys in Manchester on 5th September 2015. Moshe Fuerst, aged 17, was the most seriously injured. He was knocked unconscious with a blow to the head and continued to be assaulted as he lay helpless on the ground. He suffered a fractured skull and had to be placed in a medically-induced coma. Antisemitic slurs were shouted at the victims and one of their skullcaps was spat on. Kelly pleaded guilty to one count of section 18 assault, one count of section 47 assault and two counts of section 39 assault.

Kelly was sentenced to youth detention for 18 months and ordered to contribute towards a £1,000 payment to the victims.

2nd October 2015

Zach Birch,17, was convicted of an attack on four Jewish boys in Manchester on 5th September 2015. Moshe Fuerst, aged 17, was the most seriously injured. He was knocked unconscious with a blow to the head and continued to be assaulted as he lay helpless on the ground. He suffered a fractured skull and had to be placed in a medically-induced coma. Antisemitic slurs were shouted at the victims and one of their skullcaps was spat on. Birch pleaded guilty to one count of section 47 assault and two counts of section 39 assault.

Birch was sentenced to youth detention for 12 months and ordered to contribute towards a £1,000 payment to the victims.

18th September 2015

Nicholas Sweeney, 34, from Clapton, pleaded guilty at Thames Stratford Magistrates Court to two counts of racial religious harassment, and criminal damage to a police cell, after shouting antisemitic abuse at two Jewish men. He was reported to police by Shomrim Stamford Hill.

Sweeney was sentenced to 49 days in prison and ordered to pay a £80 victims surcharge and £166 for repairs to the police cell.

September 2015

Anthony Michael pleaded guilty at Stratford Magistrates’ Court to racially threatening behaviour and racially aggravated criminal damage after he was filmed directing a Nazi salute at a Jewish van driver in London.

Michael was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison suspended for 12 months. He was also handed a community order for 20 days of rehabilitation activity and ordered to comply with an electronically monitored curfew for 8 weeks. He was also ordered to pay £250 victim compensation and £85 court costs.

24th August 2015

Taha Bakhit, 24, from Swindon, pleaded guilty at Swindon Crown Court to racially aggravated common assault. He attempted to throttle and blind his flatmate, Sayed Hussain whom he told: “you are Jewish, you are Jewish, you will go to burn in hell fire”. He also threw a fire extinguisher at him and threatened him with a pair of scissors. He told officers he would behead him.

Bakhit was sentenced to nine months in prison.

10th August 2015

Nicholas Goodwin, 23, from Troon, sent a photo of himself with a Nazi flag to a Jewish woman on 29th June 2015 in revenge for her stopping him from contacting her vulnerable son. He was convicted at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court.

Goodwin was sentenced to six months in prison.

10th August 2016

Adam Elliott, 24, from Newcastle, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment, alarm and distress at Newcastle Crown Court to shouting “I’m going to kill all Jews” and “Free Palestine” from a car driven by Muzamel Hussain in Gateshead on 20th July 2014. He then went into a shop and said “I hate Jewish f******”.

Elliott was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for 18 months and handed a 12-month supervision order.

10th August 2016

Muzamal Hussain, 28, from Fenham, pleaded guilty at Newcastle Crown Court to racially aggravated harrassment, alarm and distress after Adam Elliott, who was travelling in his car, shouted “I’m going to kill all Jews” and “Free Palestine” through the window as they drove through Gateshead on 20th July 2014.

Hussain was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for 18 months and handed a 12-month supervision order.

19th July 2015

Jakub Lukasz Kawczynski was challenged by a Jewish man for urinating in public whilst children were playing nearby on 21st June 2015. Kawczynski became very abusive and used racist language, including “F***ing Jewish f***ers”. He was followed by Shomrim who alerted the Police and followed Kawczynski until he was arrested. Kawczynski pleased guilty to racially aggravated harassment at Thames Magistrates’ Court.

Kawczynski was ordered to pay £795, including £200 compensation to the victim.

10th July 2015

John Curchod pleaded guilty to sending antisemitic tweets just moments before his case was to be heard in Hastings Magistrates’ Court. In August 2014, he tweeted to a Jewish Twitter user: “The world will exterminate you. As Hitler failed to do in entirety.” When other Twitter users tweeted that he should be reported to the police, he replied: ”We are waiting – got the shot guns [sic] man – ready to shoot Jews.” He asked: “Why are Jews so despicable?” clarifying: “I just hate Jews”. He also predicted that “Police probably don’t give a f*** about Jews”.

Churchod was fined £1000 and ordered to pay £650 costs.

6th February 2015

Mahmudul Choudhury, 35, an IT teacher, was convicted of racially aggravated harassment alarm and distress at Bromley Magistrates’ Court. He had used his Facebook page to praise Hitler for murdering Jews, sharing an image of Hitler captioned: “Yes man, you were right. I could have killed all the Jews, but I left some of them to let you know why I was killing them. Share this picture to tell the truth a whole world.”

Choudhury was fined £465 and ordered to pay a £47 victim surcharge. Campaign Against Antisemitism also secured a Prohibition Order banning Choudhury from teaching for life.

26th January 2015

Balawal Sultan, 18, from Newcastle, pleaded guilty to assaulting a rabbi at Newcastle Crown Court. He had sent a text message saying: “I’m going to go Jew bashing. Haha.”

Sultan was committed to a young offenders’ institution.

26th January 2015

Kesa Malik, 19, from Newcastle, pleaded guilty to assaulting a rabbi at Newcastle Crown Court.

Malik was committed to a young offenders’ institution.

26th January 2015

Hassnain Aliamin, 18, from Newcastle, pleaded guilty to assaulting a rabbi at Newcastle Crown Court.

Aliamin was committed to a young offenders’ institution.

26th January 2015

A 17-year-old boy from Newcastle, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to assaulting a rabbi at Newcastle Crown Court.

The teenager was committed to a young offenders’ institution.

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