Prosecutions for Antisemitism
2019 Prosecutions
2nd December 2019 - Andreas Dowling
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ÂŁ200 and ordered to pay ÂŁ85 prosecution costs as well as a ÂŁ32 surcharge. He is also voluntarily undertaking support groups for alcoholism.
5th July 2019 - Triston Morgan
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
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
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
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
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 ÂŁ115 victim surcharge. He was also required to undertake rehabilitation activity.
27th February 2019 - Jemeail Isaac
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 ÂŁ140.
3rd January 2019 - James Malcolm
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.