CONVICTIONS FOR ANTISEMITIC CRIMINAL & TERRORIST OFFENCES

This list shows all criminal convictions known to CST for hate crimes, terrorism or other offences where antisemitism was a factor either in the charge or in sentencing, or was a significant part of the evidence for which the defendant(s) were convicted. We hope that it will encourage victims of antisemitism to report their experience and help press for action against the perpetrators. This is unlikely to be an exhaustive list of all convictions for antisemitic hate crimes in the UK and we welcome any information about convictions that are not included here.

CST will continue supporting prosecutions against antisemitism and will update this list as required. We assist the investigation of antisemitic hate crimes and can help support victims through the criminal justice process.

Year of prosecution:

2019

December

• Andreas Dowling, a 24-year-old from Cornwall, was jailed at Exeter Crown Court for four years and five months after admitting 30 counts of communicating false information with intent. Dowling sent more than 100 bomb hoaxes targeting schools, colleges and police stations in the UK, US and Canada. He also unsuccessfully tried to disrupt the Super Bowl and the Houses of Parliament. Some of the hoax calls were made to Jewish schools and he taunted them by telling them that a bomb would go off at 4.20pm, a reference to Hitler’s birthday on 20 April. He claimed to have planted bombs containing dynamite, sarin gas and radioactive material and said he would shoot any survivors with assault rifles.

November

• Andrew Prendergast, from Blackpool, pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to charges of burglary in a building with intent to steal and racially or religiously aggravated damage. Prendergast broke into Blackpool Reform Synagogue by smashing a window and a lock with a lump of concrete. When asked by police why he targeted the location, he said: “I wanted to blow them up…synagogue…blow it up. I am proud to be English and don’t want the Jews here.” Prendergast, who lives a few yards from the synagogue, has two previous convictions for racially aggravated offences.

• Sam Hemmati, a 20-year-old from Chigwell, was jailed for three years at Wood Green Crown Court after admitting to harassing and stalking Jewish women because of their religion. He also pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated robbery of a Jewish man in London in July. Hemmati bombarded numerous victims with antisemitic messages on various social media platforms and harassed eight women between September 2018 and March 2019.

• Dan Zaharia, a 59-year-old from Runcorn, 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 to one count of malicious communications covering contact from January 1 to November 30. He was jailed for 19 months, ordered to pay a victim surcharge and was given an indefinite restraining order to protect the victim and his family. The judge said he was satisfied that the malicious communication was racially and religiously motivated.

October

• A boy, who described himself as a neo-Nazi, who was 16-years-old at the time of the offences, was jailed for six years and eight months at Manchester Crown Court for planning terror attacks on synagogues and other targets in Durham as part of a “race war”. He wrote a manifesto called “Storm 88: A manual for practical sensible guerrilla warfare against the k*ke system in Durham city area, Sieg Heil”. He detailed plans to firebomb synagogues and looked online for locations of synagogues. He also planned to attack other targets, including schools, public transport and council buildings. He was fascinated with mass killers including Anders Breivik, Timothy McVeigh, the Unabomber and the Columbine school attackers. He followed far right ideology since the age of 13 and his views became more extreme as he immersed himself in online far right forums, including support for satanism. This included a belief in antisemitic conspiracies and he ranted about Jewish school governors, MPs and the press. He obtained and shared terror manuals on making explosives and firearms, including ISIS and al-Qaeda material. He was convicted of engaging in the preparation of an act of terrorism, disseminating terrorist publications, possessing material for terrorist purposes and collecting or possessing information useful in the preparation of an act of terrorism.

September

• Shehroz Iqbal, a 27-year-old from Ilford, pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court to intending to stir up racial hatred after displaying antisemitic posters outside a synagogue in Gants Hill and at Gants Hill underground station underpass in March 2017. He was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment suspended for 24 months, 30 days rehabilitation activity, 60 hours unpaid work and a £100 fine. Iqbal has been convicted twice before for similar offences against the Jewish community in London, including making death threats to a Jewish motorist and sending antisemitic emails.

• David Aherne, a 54-year-old from Tottenham, shouted “1,2,3 heil Hitler” and “go have a sausage sandwich” at a Jewish couple and their three children riding on a bus through Stamford Hill in July. Aherne pleaded guilty to causing racially and religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress at Wood Green Crown Court and was jailed for 12 weeks.

• Mr Lorinczi pleaded guilty at Holborn Magistrates Court to a racially/religiously aggravated common assault after throwing glass bottles at two Jewish men and shouting comments about Hitler in Stamford Hill in August. Lorinczi was sentenced to six months in prison suspended for eighteen months, a three-month alcohol treatment, 30 days’ rehabilitation activity, £100 fine for criminal damage and £200 victim compensation.

August

• Rahan Rahman, a 27-year-old from Nottingham, admitted racially aggravated harassment after he commented to a police officer: “I bet you are a Jew, aren’t you?”, whilst being held at Bridewell police station in July. Rahman was fined £200 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £32 surcharge.

July

• Tristan Morgan, a 52-year-old from Exeter, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to carrying out an arson attack on Exeter Synagogue in July 2018. He also admitted encouraging terrorism by publishing a song entitled ‘White Man’ to live-streaming website Soundcloud and collecting information for terrorist purposes in relation to a copy of the ‘White Resistance Manual’. During sentencing, the judge commented on Morgan’s “obsession” with antisemitic material. The judge also noted that Morgan made a concerted effort to burn down the third oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom on a holy day, namely Tisha B’Av. However, Morgan had researched the opening times of the synagogue, suggesting he did not want to harm people, which is why he targeted it when it was closed. 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 he used in the attack. He told police officers: “Please tell me that synagogue is burning to the ground, if not, it’s poor preparation”. Taking into account Morgan’s mental health issues, as well as the fact he pled guilty, the judge sentenced Morgan to an indeterminate hospital order before his potential release can be considered by court. He also sentenced Morgan to a ten-year terrorist notification order.

June

• Michal Szewczuk, 19-years-old from Leeds, and Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18-years-old from west London, who were part of a neo-Nazi group called the Sonnenkrieg Division, were jailed for terrorism offences at the Old Bailey. Szewczuk, who admitted two counts of encouraging terrorism and five of possessing documents useful to a terrorist, was jailed for just over four years. Dunn-Koczorowski, who pleaded guilty to two counts of encouraging terrorism, was given an 18-month detention and training order. The pair ran personal accounts on the Gab social media site, as well as sharing control of the Sonnenkrieg’s own page. They posted propaganda that encouraged terrorist attacks and suggested targets including Jews and non-whites. They glorified the Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Breivik and suggested that Prince Harry should be shot for being a “race traitor”.

• Shane Pegg, an ex-employee of a steel company based in London, made antisemitic comments towards the owner and another employee, including “Hitler should have finished the job” and “f**king Jews”. He also etched a swastika into a piece of metal belonging to the company and wrote an abusive word on plastic sheeting. Pegg pled guilty at Highbury Magistrates Court to racially aggravated criminal damage and criminal damage. He was found guilty of racially aggravated abusive behaviour. He was sentenced to 140 hours of unpaid work, 20 days Rehabilitation Activity Requirement and ordered to pay £100 compensation and £85 surcharge.

April

• The offender, from Hendon, north London, was found guilty at Harrow Crown Court of racially aggravated intentional harassment following an altercation outside a local synagogue. The offender approached the synagogue and started behaving erratically, intimidating the security officers and making abusive gestures and threats. The offender was given a three-month prison sentence suspended for 15 months, ordered to undertake rehabilitation activity and pay £115 victim surcharge.

February

• Jemeail Issac, from New Cross in London, was found guilty at Stratford Magistrates Court of racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress and fined £140 for screaming at children “Hitler should kill you”.

January

• James Malcolm, an 18-year-old, who pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to four charges of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and one charge of maliciously damaging headstones and writing offensive slogans, was jailed for two years and four months. Malcolm scrawled antisemitic and Nazi slogans on an MSP’s office window, including a Star of David hung on gallows. He also damaged 27 headstones at a cemetery, including drawing a swastika on glass. He also shouted “Heil Hitler” at a 16-year-old in a park, and wrote offensive slogans in blood on the wall of a police cell, including swasitkas. When the police went to Malcolm’s home, police officers found the walls covered with antisemitic and Nazi slogans, including “death to all Jews” and “death to all non whites”.

2018

December

• James Malcolm (18) pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to four charges of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and one charge of maliciously damaging headstones and writing offensive slogans. He was jailed for two years and four months. Malcolm scrawled antisemitic and Nazi slogans on an MSP’s office window, including a Star of David hung on gallows. He also damaged 27 headstones at a cemetery, including drawing a swastika on glass. He also shouted “Heil Hitler” at a 16-year-old in a park, and wrote offensive slogans in blood on the wall of a police cell, including swasitkas. When the police went to Malcolm’s home, police officers found the walls covered with antisemitic and Nazi slogans, including “death to all Jews” and “death to all non whites”. 

November

• Joseph Brogan, a 27-year-old from Gorton, pleaded guilty to a racially aggravated public order offence and was jailed for six months. Brogan gave a Nazi salute and shouted antisemitic abuse at a rally against antisemitism in Manchester city centre in September 2018. He was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court.

October

• Two teenagers pleaded guilty to racially/religiously aggravated public order and assault at Medway Magistrates Court after they threw stones at a Jewish family on Minster beach in Kent and shouted “Jews” at them. They were sentenced to a Youth Rehabilitation Order for 12 months, 160 hours of unpaid work, supervision by the Probation Service for 12 months and a curfew for four months.

September

• Leighton Johnson, a 43-year-old from Swansea, was convicted at Swansea Crown Court of causing racially aggravated alarm or distress. Towards the end of a Premier League match between Swansea City and Tottenham Hotspur in April 2017, Johnson gave a Nazi salute towards the Tottenham directors’ box. He was sentenced to a three-year ban from Swansea City home matches, a 12-month community order, 150 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay £1,085 in costs.

August

• Alberto Busalacchi pleaded guilty at Stratford Magistrates Court to racially or religiously aggravated harassment and theft. He shouted “Heil Hitler” at a group of Jewish women before shoplifting at a kosher bakery in Stamford Hill in January. He was jailed for six weeks, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to pay £400 victim compensation.
• Three people inside a vehicle, a driver and two passengers, drove past a CST-hosted training session in Prestwich in May 2018 and shouted antisemitic abuse at a small group of Jewish people outside and one held up a badge with a swastika on it. The perpetrators, who were located by police, went through Restorative Justice and apologised for their actions and the offence caused.
• Jonathan Jennings, a 34-year-old from Brynamman in Wales, pleaded guilty at Swansea Crown Court to 10 counts of publishing threatening written material to stir up religious hatred, sending an electronic communication conveying a threatening message, and sending an electronic communication of an offensive nature. Jennings posted messages on the social media site Gab targeting Muslims, Jews and public figures. He posted that it would be “a good idea” if there was a “burn a mosque day”, Muslims should be gassed and Hitler was born “100 years too soon”. He threatened that if the Jews did not behave themselves they would share the same fate as Muslims. Jennings was jailed for 16 months.

July

• Husnain Rashid, a 32-year-old from Nelson in Lancashire, pleaded guilty to three counts of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts and one count of encouraging terrorism. Rashid is an ISIS supporter who ran a channel on the encrypted app Telegram called ‘Lone Mujahid’. He encouraged lone actors to attack various targets in the UK and around the world, including Jewish communities. Other targets included British Army bases, shopping centres, government buildings, the Halloween parade in New York and railway stations in Australia. He provided assistance to lone attackers with all types of methods of operation, including the use of IEDs, chemicals and knives. He published a magazine aimed at potential terrorists, distributed the al-Qaida magazine Inspire and wanted to travel to Turkey and Syria to fight for ISIS. He was jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years.

• Sheroz Iqbal was sentenced to 11 weeks imprisonment suspended for 18 months, 60 hours unpaid community work, fined £115 and required to pay £85 court costs after sending antisemitic emails to members of the North London Orthodox Jewish community.

• Jeremy Bedford-Turner, the leader of the far-right London Forum, was jailed for 12 months at Southwark Crown Court for stirring up racial hatred by calling for violence against Jews at a speech in Whitehall on 4 July 2015. He will serve six months and be at risk of licence if he re-offends. His speech was originally intended for an anti-Jewish protest to be held in Golders Green, a north London suburb with a significant Jewish population but the police assessed that it would likely result in serious disorder and the demonstrators were required to move the location to central London. His speech made mention of Saint William of Norwich and Little Saint Hugh, two medieval era cases from 1144 and 1255 involving blood libels in which Jews were accused of murdering children. Preceding his 15-minute speech, Bedford Turner called for a minute silence for “all the victims of Zionist terrorists”. The case was bought after the Campaign Against Antisemitism obtained a Judicial Review of the CPS decision not to prosecute and the receipt of advice from counsel concerning the way in which Equality and Human Rights Commission issues were considered as part of the decision-making.

June

• Bashir Shamraize, a 34-year-old from Bradford, pleaded guilty at Manchester Magistrates Court to racially aggravated threatening behaviour. Whilst on a flight from Tel Aviv to Manchester in June 2017, Shamraize shouted antisemitic abuse to other passengers. Bashir was ordered to complete a 12-month community order plus 100 hours unpaid work, attend a course to address his cannabis use and ordered to pay £505 in costs.
• Stephen Panagai as sentenced to 60 hours unpaid community service which was uplifted to 100 hours community service after pleading guilty to giving a Nazi salute to parents taking children into the Wolfson Hillel Primary School in Southgate north London. He was also ordered to pay £50 in compensation, a £85 surcharge, £85 in costs and to attend a session on Holocaust education.

May

• Aweys Shikhey, a 38-year-old from Tottenham and of Somali origin, was found guilty of preparing for acts of terrorism. In May 2017, Shikhey planned to fly to Turkey and go across the Syrian border to fight for ISIS. In a series of messages on encrypted social media platforms with a Kenya-based Somalian ISIS supporter, Shikhey discussed targeting Jews, specifically mentioning the Stamford Hill area, where there were “a lot of Jews”. He said: “It is good to shoot them live”. He also talked about killing former Prime Minister David Cameron, the Queen and launching an AK47 attack at White Hart Lane, the then home of Tottenham Hotspur football club. Shikey was jailed for eight years.
• Alison Chabloz, a far-right blogger and musician, was convicted at Westminster Magistrates Court of writing and performing antisemitic songs which denied the Holocaust, at a meeting of the London Forum and which she posted to YouTube. She was convicted of two counts of sending an offensive, indecent or menacing message through a public communications network, and a third charge relating to one of three songs on YouTube. She was sentenced to 20 weeks imprisonment, suspended for two years, banned from posting anything on social media for 12 months, and has to complete 180 hours of unpaid community work.
• Mark Meehan, who uses the online name Count Dankula, was fined £800 at Airdrie Sherriff Court in April for an offence under the Communications Act for posting 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 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 Sherriff Court in Edinburgh on 9 May 2018. He has now stated that he intends to refer the case to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. Meechan had allegedly raised over £190,000 for legal costs and had received public support from far-right activists, who were represented at the sentencing hearing. In a YouTube video, Meechan suggested he would refuse to pay the £800 fine by its October deadline, or carry out any other punishment or community order the court may impose.
• Wayne Bell, a prominent member of National Action before it was banned in 2016, was sentenced to four years and three months in jail at Leeds Crown Court in May for posting hundreds of posts on Twitter and a Russian social media site, including one which described Jewish people as “destructive” and “vile”. Bell had also daubed neo-Nazi graffiti on pillars and lamp posts in his hometown of Castleford. He pleaded guilty to two counts of stirring up racial hatred and three counts of possessing multiple items in order to destroy or damage property. 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. 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.
• Austin Ross of Newport pleaded guilty to 15 charges of spray-painting swastikas and setting fire to a school, a Masonic hall and church around his hometown between 2 and 31 May and was due to be sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on 21 August. The swastikas were sprayed on the walls and post at the University of South Wales during the Bank Holiday weekend. Alongside them was a message written in support of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, founder of the English Defence League, and the court was informed that his actions were based on his membership or perceived membership of a racist group.

March

• Lee Munns was sentenced to 70 hours supervised community service and a £85 fine after being found guilty of posting 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 beat Spurs 2 – 1 at Wembley Stadium in August 2016.

February

• David Bitton, a 40-year-old from Altrincham, was jailed for four years after pleading guilty to 13 separate charges of sending racist and threatening communication. Bitton tweeted around 600 posts on Twitter over the course of one weekend in May 2016, many directed at Greater Manchester Police and many others making racist, homophobic and antisemitic comments and being highly abusive. In the police interview, Bitton claimed he had only written the tweets in order to gain followers and deleted them soon after.

• Marcin Zych was banned from driving, fined £250, £50 in compensation and ordered to carry out 100 hours unpaid community work and pay court costs for shouting “You f***ing Jew” at another motorist on 14 February at Highbury Magistrates’ Court. He had been seen driving erratically before turning into a cul-de-sac where he crashed his car. He was prevented from leaving the scene by Stamford Hill Shomrim, the Jewish neighbourhood watch, who had called the police.

January 

• Jason Galvin, a 46-year-old plumber from Oxford, was convicted at Oxford Magistrates’ Court after making antisemitic and threatening phone calls and an e-mail in April 2017 to a Jewish customer, who he wrongly accused of not paying his bill. Galvin admitted a single count of persistently sending a communication to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety. He was ordered to pay a £300 fine, £30 victim surcharge, £85 costs and £100 compensation. Kick it Out, the anti-racism organisation reported the tweet to the police.
• Jack Renshaw, a 22-year-old who proclaimed himself a Nazi, was sentenced to three years imprisonment for stirring up racial hatred at Preston Crown Court after making speeches describing Jewish people as “parasites”. Renshaw made one 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 National Action, the pro-Nazi group which was later banned by the UK as a terrorist group.

2017

December

• Ummarayiat Mirza, 21-years-old, and his wife Madihah Taheer, 22-years-old, were convicted of planning a terror attack in Birmingham. Zainub Mirza, Ummarayiat’s 24-year-old sister, admitted sending terrorist propaganda videos to her brother. They had been planning a knife attack and had carried out online hostile reconnaissance of possible targets, including Birmingham’s Central Synagogue, Wikipedia lists of Jewish communities in Britain, Jewish areas in London and Birmingham, barracks and Territorial Army bases in Birmingham. As well as the online research, Ummariyat bought a steel hunting knife and a rubber training knife, which he used to practice on a training dummy. Ummarayiat Mirza pleaded guilty to preparing an act of terrorism and was jailed for 21 years. Madihah Taheer was found guilty of preparing an act of terrorism and was jailed for 11 years. Zainub pleaded guilty tofive counts of disseminating terrorist publications and was jailed for 30 months.

October

• Timothy Rustige, a 68-year-old from Altrincham, admitted eight counts of criminal damage after repeatedly spray-painting antisemitic and anti-Zionist graffiti, including “ZioNazis”, on the walls of the River Bollin Aqueduct in Dunham Massey between September 2016 and June 2017. Rustige was sentenced to a 12-month community order, with 140 hours unpaid work, and ordered to pay £500 in compensation.

• Martins Gailis received a 12 week suspended sentence, was ordered to pay £5000 and given a permanent restraining order not to go near West London Synagogue, or any other London synagogue after attacking the synagogue doors and smashing the CCTV camera in the early hours of the morning on 27 September.

September

• Ineta Winiarski and Kasimiersz Winiarski from Hackney were convicted at Thames Magistrates’ Court on 3 July of shouting antisemitic abuse and assaulting guests outside a Jewish wedding waiting to be transferred outside Clapton Common Synagogue Kehal Yetev Lev in east London. Kasimiersz slammed the door on one of the driver’s car and pushed him, whilst Ineta threatened guests with a dog lead, shouting “f***ing Jew” and other antisemitic abuse, and hitting and pushing the victims. Kasimiersz admitted two counts of assault by beating and Ineta admitted three counts of racially aggravated assault. They were both given 12 weeks in prison suspended for 12 months. They were also both ordered to participate in a rehabilitation programme and to pay £40 to each of their victims, a victim surcharge and £85 each in costs.

• Glenn Okafor, a 32-year-old from West Norwood in south London, was convicted at Stratford Magistrates’ Court of two counts of racially/religiously aggravated harassment and two counts of using threatening or abusive behaviour to cause alarm or distress. On Saturday 4 March, Okafor shouted “f*** you Jewish people” at a group of strictly Orthodox Jews in Stamford Hill. He then told them “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”. His original sentence of 150 hours of unpaid work was increased to 200 hours due to hate crime laws.  He was also ordered to pay £770, including £150 to each of his victims, and given a 12-month community order.

• Richard Gary Reed pleaded guilty at Ipswich Magistrates’ Court to racially/religiously-aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress. On 5 August, Reed shouted “I’m going to kill you f***ing Jews, I know where you are”, whilst making gun gestures at a Jewish man wearing a kippa, who walked into a pub in Ipswich. Reed was ordered to pay a £300 fine plus £85 costs, a £30 victim surcharge and compensation to the victim.

• Jose Manuel Silva pleaded guilty to racially/religiously-aggravated intentional harassment, alarm, distress and criminal damage. On 24 August, Silva shouted “burn” whilst pointing at Jewish people walking past in Golders Green, North London. He was sentenced to 28 days in prison, fined £165 and ordered to pay costs of £85.

August

• Majid Mahmood, a 40-year-old criminal defence solicitor, was fined by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for posting abusive and antisemitic messages on Facebook in 2015 and 2016. In one post, Mahmood referred to ‘chosen people’ and said it was a shame a plane carrying Israeli’s ‘didn’t blow up mid-air’. Mahmood was handed a one-year suspension from practice, suspended for 12 months, fined £25,000 and ordered to pay around £9,500 in costs.

• Alister William Coutts was found guilty of acting in a racially aggravated manner with intent to cause distress and alarm at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and was fined £175. Coutts, a member of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, was convicted for his behaviour towards a Jewish businessman, who operated stalls selling Israeli cosmetics in a Glasgow shopping centre.

• Paul Pawlowski, a 90-year-old from Burgess Hill, was found guilty at Brighton Magistrates’ Court of racially/religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress. Pawlowski displayed a placard which included the words ‘Pull the chain. Flush the Jew mafia down the drain’ on the Old Steine in Brighton on 28 May. He said that if the police took his placard and leaflets he would walk up and down North Street and shout his views, which included other antisemitic messages. He was fined £100, which was increased to £150 because of the antisemitic nature, as well as costs of £100 and a victim surcharge of £85.

• James Evans, a 70-year-old, pleaded guilty to racially-aggravated harassment at Worcester Crown Court after sending antisemitic letters to Worcester MP Robin Walker between August and November 2016. Evans, who was given a £250 fine, referred to the ‘death cult’ of ‘Zionist Jews’ who will get ‘lots killed’ in a World War. He claimed that ‘Jewish people control the world’ and that Jewish people were ‘Yids’ and ‘Zionists’. Evans had previously sent 70 letters to the BBC, which led to a restraining order preventing him from contacting local BBC staff.

• Charles Panayi was convicted of racially aggravated criminal damage at Hendon Magistrates’ Court over an antisemitic road rage incident. On 31 January, Panayi became abusive towards a Jewish man driving in North London, calling him a “F***ing Jewish prick”. He also punched the man’s car window and smashed his wing mirror. Panayi was given a 12-week jail sentence suspended for a year, ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service work and fined £1,000 in compensation and £620 in costs.

May

• Mark Harding, a 48-year-old from Walsall, pleaded guilty at Hendon Magistrates’ Court to sending offensive communications on 19 November 2016. Harding tweeted the founder of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust with the words: “Stick your head in the oven like the Jew you are”, and sent a second message saying he hoped she would “die in a freak car accident.” He was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, ordered to complete 60 hours community service work, and pay £85 costs, £115 victim surcharge and £150 compensation.

April

• Michael Demetriou was convicted of racially aggravated harassment, alarm and distress at Stratford Magistrates’ Court after shouting “Heil Hitler” and “F***ing Jews” at Jews in Stamford Hill in August 2016. Demetriou was given a six months conditional discharge and ordered to pay £640 costs.

March

• Daren Thomas, from Westcliffe-on-Sea, was convicted of religiously-aggravated harassment for sending a series of antisemitic, threatening e-mails to his Jewish landlord, his wife and children in July and August 2016. Thomas was given a 16-week jail sentence suspended for 12 months conditional on Thomas taking a behavioural training course, a restraining order banning Thomas from containing the victim, and to pay a £300 victim surcharge.

• Lawrence Burns, a 26-year-old from Cambridge, was jailed for four years at Peterborough Crown Court after he was found guilty of two charges of stirring up racial hatred. Burns posted racist and antisemitic comments on Facebook, including referring to Jews as “sub-human animals”, as well as making a racist and antisemitic speech at a far-right demonstration.

• Jaroslaw Goloshko was convicted at Stratford Magistrates Court of a racially aggravated public order offence. On 25^th December 2016, Goloshko shouted “Heil Hitler” and gave a Hitler salute at Jewish people walking in the street in Stamford Hill. Goloshko was convicted in his absence and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

February

• Abdul Ahaed, a 29-year-old, was convicted of racially abusing a hostel worker and then shouting antisemitic abuse at a police officer after his arrest at a hostel in north London on 26^th November 2016. Ahaed pleaded guilty at Wood Green Crown Court to two counts of racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm, and distress. He was sentenced to a 12-month community order, a six-week curfew, a ten-day rehabilitation activity requirement, a victim surcharge and payments to the victims.

• Kristian Omilian, a 30-year-old from Cambridge, pleaded guilty to a racially and religiously aggravated public order offence. Omilian was caught on CCTV in November 2016 placing antisemitic stickers on a synagogue in Cambridge. Omilian was given a two-year restraining order preventing him from going within 100 yards of two Cambridge synagogues, a 15-day rehabilitation activity, 120 hours of unpaid work, a victim surcharge and court costs.

• Clive Wilson, a 46-year-old, pleaded guilty to shouting antisemitic abuse at Jewish people in Stamford Hill. He was fined £160 and ordered to pay a £30 victim surcharge and £85 costs.

• Sean Creighton, a 45-year-old from Enfield, admitted six charges of publishing or distributing written material likely to stir up racial hatred, possession of racially inflammatory material and collection of information likely to be useful to a person committing an act of terrorism. Creighton published racist, antisemitic and anti-Muslim material and had information on making explosives. He was jailed for four years for seven offences of incitement to racial hatred, and five years for the terrorism offence, to run concurrently. He is also subject to a notification order for 15 years.

• Patrick Joseph Delany, a 19-year-old from Braintree, was jailed for six months at Wood Green Crown Court after pleading guilty to religiously aggravated harassment causing alarm or distress. On 6^th January 2016, Delany was in a van and shouted antisemitic abuse and threw small gas canisters at four Orthodox Jews out shopping in Tottenham Hale.

• John Nimmo pleaded guilty at Newcastle Crown Court to two offences of sending malicious communications to Luciana Berger MP. One message 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 jailed for two years and three months and is subject to an order prohibiting him from contacting his victims or using a false identity to post comments online and faces an additional five years in jail if he breaches it.

January

• Sebastian Tancula and Damian Filipek were jailed for 22 weeks each at Maidstone Crown Court after admitting 18 offences of damaging property and two of causing racially aggravated damage to property. On 17^th November 2016, one of the men sprayed red paint on shops, homes, and a public toilet in Tunbridge Wells with Polish football hooligan and antisemitic graffiti, whilst the other acted as “crowd-control”.

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2016

December

• Joshua Bonehill-Paine was found guilty at the Old Bailey of the racially aggravated harassment of Luciana Berger MP and jailed for two years. He posted five articles online in which he called Berger “a rodent”, a “money grabber” and “evil”. Bonehill is currently serving a jail sentence of three years and four months for his conviction in December 2015 for stirring up racial hatred against the Jewish community after he posted antisemitic posts about an “anti-Jewification” campaign to “liberate” Golders Green. It was whilst he was on bail for the harassment of Luciana Berger that he committed the racial hatred offence. The two sentences will be served consecutively, and he was also given a five-year criminal behaviour order.

• Philip Anthony Kuegler, a 50-year-old from Llandrindod Wells in Wales, pleaded guilty at Llandrindod Wells Magistrates’ Court to using religiously aggravated threatening words or behaviour to cause fear of violence and assaulting a police officer.  Kuegler became agitated and abusive whilst at a Tesco store late at night, shouted antisemitic abuse, threw a glass bottle at a police officer and grabbed and spat at him. He was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison for the threatening behaviour and three weeks for assaulting a police officer to run concurrently, suspended for two years. He was also ordered to complete 20 rehabilitation activity days, five hate crime sessions, pay £300 compensation and a £115 surcharge.

• Vandell Brooks, a 39-year-old, pleaded guilty to shouting antisemitic abuse at some Orthodox Jews on 13th December. She was fined £200, plus a £30 victim surcharge and £85 in court costs.

November

• Mr Bracey pleaded guilty at North Wiltshire Magistrates’ Court to sending an improper message contrary to section 127 of the Communications Act 2003. Bracey, who sent antisemitic text messages to his neighbour, was sentenced to a Community Order for 12 months to include 12 days complying with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.

• Mr H Martinez, an 86-year-old from Cambridge, was found guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court of a charge of using racially abusive words or behaviour after hurling racial abuse at a Jewish property developer on 8th February 2016. Martinez was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £625 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

• Fabian Richardson, a 21-year-old from Crawley, pleaded guilty at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court to religiously aggravated harassment after giving 13 Nazi salutes during a Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur football game in May 2016. Richardson was given a three-year football banning order, a £250 fine, £85 costs and £30 witness tax.

October

• Stuart Birnie, a 36-year-old from Hackney, was convicted at Wood Green Crown Court of racially and religiously aggravated intentional harassment and jailed for six months. On 17th December 2015, Birnie deliberately crossed over a road to shout antisemitic abuse and threats at a Jewish man in the street in Stamford Hill.

• Shehroz Iqbal pleaded guilty after making antisemitic death threats to a Jewish motorist on 11th September 2016. Iqbal was given a suspended 16-week jail sentence and 80 hours unpaid work.

September

• Mark Zahra was convicted at Wood Green Crown Court of racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress after he shouted antisemitic abuse at Jews in the street. He was sentenced to a 12-month community order and a 4-month curfew.

• Lee Savage was convicted at Wood Green Crown Court after shouting antisemitic abuse at a Jewish family and giving a Hitler salute.

August

• Kamil Malmon, of Polish origin, was found guilty at Willesden Magistrates Court of racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage after he wrote “F*** da juda” in pencil on the wall of Pinner Synagogue in June. Malmon was given a 26-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months, and ordered to pay costs of £735.
• James Evans was found guilty of breaching a restraining order by sending 17 antisemitic letters to BBC employees. In the letters, Evans referred to Jews as “Yids”, “Zionists”, and claimed, “Jewish people rule the world”. Evans is banned from entering BBC Hereford and Worcester and making contact with members of staff. He 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.

July

• A 14-year-old boy, who could not be named because of his age, was sentenced by Hackney Youth Offender Panel to a one-year referral order and ordered to pay £20 compensation for intentional harassment contrary to section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986. On 31st January, the boy was arrested in Stamford Hill after he put lit fireworks into the pockets of Jewish pedestrians as they passed him in the street.

June

• Geoffrey Ingram pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates Court to racially aggravated abuse. Ingram was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison, half on license, ordered to pay £250 in costs, £200 compensation and £80 victim surcharge. The incident occurred in June 2015 on Regent Street in London after a minor motoring incident, after which Ingram intimidated the victim, readily identifying him as Jewish because the victim was wearing a kippah, and shouted a series of antisemitic insults and threats. 
• Wilberth Henry was convicted in his absence of antisemitic harassment and threats after shouting “I’ll f***ing beat you up, you f***ing Jewish c***”.

March

• Richard Prendiville and R. Peacock, two West Ham fans, were convicted at Northampton Magistrates Court of racially aggravated harassment alarm and distress for singing antisemitic football songs on a train. Prendeville was fined £220, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £23, and £350 costs. Peacock was fined £270, a victim surcharge of £27 and £350 costs.
• Rashal Miah, from Tottenham, was found guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear or provoke violence. During a road rage incident in September 2014, Miah shouted that he would “kill all the Jews” at the Orthodox driver of a school bus in Stamford Hill. Miah was given a 28-week sentence suspended for one year, ordered to carry out 15 days of anger management sessions, 100 hours of community service, £900 costs, and a £80 surcharge.
• Darren Mark Lumb 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. In January 2015, Lumb launched an antisemitic verbal attack in the street against Jon Trickett, Labour MP for Hemsworth in West Yorkshire. Lumb was given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.

February

• David Gregory, a 46-year-old from Derby, was convicted at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court of using racially aggravated aggressive behaviour. Gregory had been drinking on the day after the Paris terrorist attacks in November 2015 and shouted racist abuse at a man jogging in the street. Gregory was approached by police officers and made a number of antisemitic and racist comments. He was given a 12-month community order with 150 hours of unpaid work, a ten-day rehabilitation requirement, £85 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.

January

• Thomas Flynn and Michael Haydon pleaded guilty at Southampton Magistrates’ Court to a religiously aggravated public order offence each of using threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour. Flynn and Haydon, both fans of Southampton Football Club, shouted antisemitic abuse and gave Nazi-style salutes at Tottenham Hotspur fans during a match at St Marys Stadium on 19th December. One Spurs fan reported hearing hissing sounds imitating gas escaping and another fan reported hearing chants of “gas the Jews” from a group of fans. They were sentenced to a three-year banning order preventing them from attending games in Britain, told to hand their passports to police before major games abroad, a 12 week community order and curfew, banned from going within a mile of St Marys Stadium four hours before and after kick-off on match days, and pay £145 in costs.

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2015

December

• Joshua Bonehill-Paine was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of inciting racial hatred after he published antisemitic material online, and sentenced to three years and four months in prison. In court, Bonehill-Paine was described as an “extremist” who expressed “virulently racist views in respect to the Jewish community”.

September

• Anthony Michael pleaded guilty at Stratford Magistrates’ Court to racially threatening behaviour and racially aggravated criminal damage after he was filmed giving a Hitler salute to a Jewish van driver in North London. Michael was sentenced to 16 weeks’ in prison suspended for 12 months, a community order for 20 days of rehabilitation activity, an electronically monitored curfew for 8 weeks, £250 victim compensation, and £85 court costs

• Nicholas Sweeney, from Clapton, was jailed for 49 days after pleading guilty at Thames Stratford Magistrates Court to two counts of racial religious harassment, and criminal damage to a police cell. Sweeney, who was also ordered to pay £80 victims surcharge and £166 for the damage, shouted antisemitic abuse at two Jewish men in Stamford Hill in August.
• Two 17-year-old youths, who could not be named because of their age, pleaded guilty at Manchester Youth Court to assaulting four Jewish youths at a tram station in Manchester that left one with a fractured skull. They admitted two counts of common assault and one count of actual bodily harm. One of the boys was also charged with causing grievous bodily harm. One youth was sentenced to 18 months in prison, and the other was sentenced to 12 months in prison.

August

• Taha Bakhit, from Swindon, pleaded guilty at Swindon Crown Court to racially aggravated common assault and was sentenced to nine months in prison. Bakhit shouted antisemitic abuse at a resident of a shared home, threw a fire extinguisher at him, put his hands around his throat, tried to gouge his eyes out, and threatened to behead him.
• Nicholas Goodwin was jailed for six months at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court Scotland after sending a photo of himself with a Nazi flag to a Jewish woman on 29 June 2015, two days after Holocaust Memorial Day. Goodwin will serve his sentence consecutively with another jail term he received at Paisley Sheriff Court in July after shouting racist abuse at a 16-year-old schoolboy, who he also threatened to stab.
• Adam Elliott and Muzamal Hussain were both jailed for six months, suspended for 18 months, at Newcastle Crown Court after the former pleaded guilty to shouting “I’m going to kill all Jews” and “Free Palestine” from a car driven by Hussain in Gateshead in July 2014. Soon after Elliott had also gone into a shop and said: “I hate Jewish….”. Both were also handed a 12-month supervision order.

July

• Jakub Kawczynsk was fined £975, including £200 compensation to his victim, at Thames Magistrates Court London after calling members of the Shomrim neighbourhood watch group “f…..g Jewish f…..s”, in June 2014 after he had been asked to stop in urinating in public.

June

• John Churchod was fined £1000 and ordered to pay £650 costs at Hastings Magistrates Court Sussex after sending antisemitic and homophobic messages on Twitter, in August 2014. Among the messages he tweeted were “The world will exterminate you. As Hitler failed to do in entirely” and “Jewish and gay, probably the worst combination ever”.

February

• Mahmudul Choudhury, a 35-year-old married teacher, was fined £465 plus a £47 victim surcharge at Bromley Magistrates Court London after posting Hitler images on Facebook together with ”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”.

January

• Four Tyneside teenagers were convicted of assaulting a rabbi in Gateshead in July. Prior to the attack, Balawal Sultan had texted a message saying he was going to "smash some Jews up". Sultan, Kesa Malik, Hassnain Aliamin and a 16-year-old who cannot be named because of his age, were committed to young offenders institutions after admitting racially aggravated common assault.

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2014

December

• Huseiyn Seyel from Ilford and Steven Truran from Wood Green were convicted of committing racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage after rampaging through Stamford Hill north London, slashing the tyres of more than 40 parked cars. The area is home to a large Strictly Orthodox Jewish community.

November

• Abdul Hafes, from Glasgow, was jailed for 16 months after admitting sending a series of racist and obscene Twitter posts in June. Amongst these was a message to Kurds and Shia Muslims to "die like the jews".
• Two 13-year old boys from Rochdale and Blackley, who pleaded guilty to damaging five headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Manchester in June, were handed a nine-month supervision order and a nine- month referral order respectively, in addition to being banned from all graveyards.
• Ian Campbell was jailed for 16 weeks at Hendon Magistrates Court, after pleading guilty to racially or religiously aggravated harassment. He had been heard making antisemitic comments on a bus travelling between Golders Green and Hendon, northwest London, and although the bus driver refused to act, passengers had phoned the police. Campbell was also jailed for a further four weeks for breaching a conditional discharge for an unrelated theft offence.

October

• Garron Helm, from Litherland in Liverpool, was jailed for four weeks and ordered to pay a £80 victim surcharge after admitting sending an offensive, indecent or obscene message to Luciana Berger, a local MP. He had tweeted a picture of Ms Berger with a yellow Star of David on her head, called her "a communist Jewess" and stated, "You can always trust a Jew to show their true colours eventually". When the police searched Helm's home, they found Nazi memorabilia, including a flag bearing the SS symbol and flags from the National Action neo Nazi group.

July

• Miroslav Ondurus, a Slovakian national living in Wimbledon was given a 180-hour community service order and a victim surcharge after having been convicted of making a Nazi salute, calling out "Heil Hitler", and attempted assault at a kosher restaurant in north-west London, in April. His companion, Jozef Dubos, was cleared of two charges of religiously and racially aggravated harassment at Willesden Magistrates Court in August.

June

• Daniel Stuart was charged by Police Scotland in Aberdeen with religiously aggravated offences including a breach of the peace when he had called arresting officers "poofs" and "Jewish c...s". He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a 200 hours Community Payback Order.
• High school student, Andrew Ferguson was convicted at Falkirk Sheriff Court of tweeting antisemitic, and anti-Irish, comments and sentenced to a 240 hours Community Payback Order.

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2013

November

• Nasser Javid from Pollockshields in Glasgow was given a Community Payback Order after shouting antisemitic abuse at a police officer in May. After he was arrested for causing a disturbance and assaulting a local resident, Javid had said to one of the policemen "Are you a f...ing Jew with that nose? I hate f...ing Jews. No wonder the Nazis slaughtered you all". Javid admitted assault, behaving in a threatening manner and making offensive remarks.

June

• Zohib Shah, Yusuf Patel and Muhammed Sultan were convicted of racially aggravated assault after they had thrown an egg from a moving car that hit a Jewish family on a Manchester street. They were given a 12 month Community Order which included 210 hours of unpaid work, a month–long curfew, and ordered to pay compensation.

April

• Eleven men from Birmingham were jailed at Woolwich Crown Court of involvement in a plot to detonate up to eight rucksacks packed with explosives in crowded places. One of the men was secretly recorded by the police saying: “Even if we can’t make a bomb, get guns yeah from the black geezers, Africans and charge in some like synagogue or charge in different places”. Irfan Naseer (31) was sentenced to life with a minimum of 18 years after being found guilty of five counts of preparing acts of terrorism; Irfan Khalid (28) was given 18 years after being found guilty of four counts of preparing acts of terrorism; Ashik Ali (27) was jailed for 15 years with a further five on licence after being found guilty of three counts of preparing for acts of terrorism; Rahin Ahmed (27) was sentenced to 12 years, with a further five on licence after pleading guilty to two counts of engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism and fundraising for the purposes of terrorism; Bahader Ali (34) was given six years after he pleaded guilty to encouraging others to prepare acts of terrorism; Mohammed Rizwan (29) was given four years after he pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation of acts of terrorism; Mujahid Hussain (21) was sentenced to four years after pleading guilty to preparing for acts of terrorism; Ishaaq Hussain (21), Shahid Khan (21), Naweed Ali (25) and Khobaib Hussain (22) all pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism and were each sentenced to 40 months.

February

• Gareth Smith from Huddersfield admitted being part of a group of football fans who made Nazi salutes and sang anti-Jewish chants at a game between Huddersfield Town and Leeds United in December 2012. He was convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offence, fined £120 and costs, and given a football banning order.
• James Doyle, from Hodge Hill, was banned from football matches for three years for giving a Nazi salute to Tottenham Hotspur fans at a match at Villa Park on Boxing Day 2012. Doyle was convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offence, fined £155 plus costs and given a three-year football banning order. Terry Douglas from Rowley Regis was fined £290 after shouting antisemitic abuse at a Spurs player at the same football match.

January

• Alexander Paul Holloway, a 19-year-old from Hartford admitted sending two racially aggravated messages to a Jewish teenager in October and December 2012. He had tweeted "just gas them all", "Jews are vile" and a photograph of a Jewish man with a caption stating "this creature should be gassed". Holloway claimed he sent the messages because "he "didn't like what Israel was doing in Palestine". He was given a 12-month community order with a supervision requirement, a three-year restraining order, and was ordered to complete the Promoting Dignity programme.

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2012

December

• Philip Hayes was convicted at Liverpool Magistrates Court of an aggravated public order offence after making antisemitic remarks to a Jewish Member of Parliament. He was fined and ordered to pay court costs.

September

• Mark Symington was convicted at Perth Sheriff's Court in September of making threatening antisemitic phone calls to his former wife during a three-day drunken tirade, in which he had threatened to gas her, following their estrangement.

July

• Mohammed Sajid Khan, 33-years-old, and Shasta Khan, 38-years-old, a couple from Oldham, were convicted of planning a terrorist attack against Manchester's Jewish community. The Khan’s are believed to have been intended to target Jewish communities in Greater Manchester with improvised explosive devices. The jury saw evidence of antisemitic incitement, antisemitic rhetoric; and the couple researched Jewish neighbourhoods and had driven to these areas in order to engage in hostile reconnaissance against them. Mohammed pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism before the trial at Manchester Crown Court and was given an indeterminate sentence of 15 years in prison. Shasta was found guilty of engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism and two counts of possessing a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. She was sentenced to eight years in prison.
• Margaret Walker, an elderly BNP supporter, was convicted of distributing anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim leaflets at Fareham Magistrates Court and given a non-custodial Anti Social Behaviour Order, in July.
• Mohammed Khalifa, 19, Aimen Mohamed, 19, Mohammed Jawad, 21, and Haider Al-Fardan, 21, were convicted of racially motivated attacks against Jews in July after they had driven through the north London suburb of Golders Green the previous December throwing eggs at passersby and shouting anti-Jewish abuse. The four were all found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment and ordered to pay fines, court costs and compensation.

May

• In May, veteran political campaigner Norman Scarth was convicted of racially aggravated harassment at Manchester City Magistrates Court, fined and subjected to a restraining order to prevent him approaching a Jewish judge who lived in Leeds, or any synagogue or Jewish community institution. Although no political extremist, he had subjected the Jewish judge to a campaign of threats following his conviction for other offences.

February

• Nine men pleaded guilty to an Al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist plot to attack targets in the UK. Four of the men, Mohammed Chowdhury, Shah Rahman, Gurukanth Desai and Abdul Miah, pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism. The targets included the London Stock Exchange, sending five mail bombs to various targets in the run up to Christmas 2010 and launching a “Mumbai-style” attack. A hand-written target list discovered at the home of one of the men listed the names and addresses of two rabbis, London Mayor Boris Johnson, the US embassy and the Stock Exchange. Chowdhury, 22-years-old from London, was jailed for 13 years and 8 months; Miah, 25-years-old from Cardiff, was jailed for 16 years and 10 months; Desai, 30-years-old from Cardiff, was sentenced to 12 years; Omar Latif, 28-years-old from Cardiff, was jailed for 10 years and 4 months; Mohammed Shahjahan, 27-years-old from Stoke-on-Trent, was jailed for eight years and 10 months; Usman Khan, 20-years-old from Stoke-on-Trent, was jailed for eight years; Nazam Hussain, 26-years-old from Stoke-on-Trent, was jailed for eight years; Mohibur Rahman, 28-years-old from London, was given a five-year sentence; and Shah Rahman, 28-years-old from London, was given 12 years.

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2011

December

• James Casserly was given a three-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay compensation at Hendon Magistrates Court, north London, after pleading guilty to racially abusing a Jewish man standing at a bus stop.
• Mohammed Sandia was sentenced to be admonished after his conviction twelve months earlier for inciting hatred against Jews by publishing antisemitic and threatening messages on the comments web page of The Scotsman newspaper. The courts had agreed to a twelve-month review of his behaviour after his initial conviction.  Scottish law allows a defendant to be admonished, without a custodial sentence, and for this to appear on his criminal record. This significant case led the Scottish First Minister (in effect, the Prime Minister) and Lord Advocate (in effect, head of the criminal justice system) to write to newspaper editors to remind them of their legal responsibilities over the content of their publications, including online.

September

• Yacoub Osman, an Egyptian national living in London, was convicted at Blackfriars Crown Court of racially motivated criminal damage after daubing swastikas and antisemitic graffiti on the walls of a train station in Chalk Farm north London. He was given a 12-month community order with 50 hours unpaid work and fined.
• Zbignigw Lebek was jailed for a year at Mold Crown Court, north Wales, for shouting antisemitic abuse and making Hitler salutes at an Orthodox Jewish youth working as a volunteer at a local hospital. A police search of his apartment revealed a Nazi flag with a swastika draped over the stairs.
• Perry Merchant was convicted of racially aggravated common assault, and given 140 hours of community service and made to pay compensation and court costs, after driving his van in a threatening manner towards two members of Borehamwood Synagogue in Hertfordshire on their way to High Holyday services.
• Paul Donnachie was convicted of racially abusing an American Jewish student at St Andrews University. He was sentenced to 150 hours community service and ordered to pay the court's costs. He was also expelled from the university. The case against his co defendant, Samuel Colchester, was found not proven but he was suspended by the university for a year. Donnachie's conviction led to demonstrations in his support outside Cupar Sheriff Court in Fife, by members of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, three of whose leaders had been denied permission to give evidence on his behalf. He subsequently lost his appeal to the Scottish High Court of Justiciary, in May.

July

• Edna Beck, an 80-year-old woman from Brighton, was given an Anti-Social Behaviour Order by the local court after shouting antisemitic abuse at her neighbours.
• Taha Osman, an Iraqi Kurd working as a taxi driver in Manchester, was convicted of religiously aggravated harassment after he had shouted antisemitic abuse from his car at parents outside a Jewish school in Manchester. He was given a community order by the court.

June

• Richard Brundritt was jailed for a year at St Albans Crown Court for religiously aggravated assault after attacking a supermarket guard, an Orthodox Jew.

May

• Aaron Hanson and Liam Martin were convicted of racially aggravated harassment by a Manchester court after having driven around Broughton Park, a largely Jewish suburb of Manchester, shouting abuse. Hanson was given a 12-month community order and fined; Martin a six-month community order and fined.

March

• William James Hannaford was convicted of aggravated harassment against a Jewish newspaper at the Central Criminal Court London after he had shouted antisemitic abuse down the paper's office telephone hundreds of times.

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2010

December

• Lee Tucker was jailed for a year in December, at Cardiff Crown Court, for threatening to assault four Jews on their way to synagogue having first driven his car at them.

November

• Mark Padgett and Karl Bowman were convicted of racially aggravated disorder and other charges in November, after abusing two yeshiva students at a Jewish college in Gateshead.

June

• Neo Nazis Trevor Hannington and Michael Heaton were jailed at the Central Criminal Court in June for inciting racial hatred after they had posted numerous messages to the website of the Aryan Strike Force in which they threatened violence against Jews.

March

• Clifford Nelson was convicted at Manchester Crown Court in March of racially aggravated harassment at Barnstaple Magistrates Court for daubing anti-Jewish and other offensive graffiti on local public buildings.
• Dean Parker, Shameem Parker and Barry Clark-Millar were convicted at Salford Crown Court in March of racially aggravated common assault after shouting antisemitic abuse at a group of Jewish children at whom they drove their car.

February

• A 17-year-old youth, who could not be named because of his age, was the first person in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred on YouTube in February after he had posted antisemitic and racist messages.

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2009

November

• Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle appealed against their convictions for inciting hate online via the heretical.com website that Sheppard managed. In January 2010, the Court of Appeal rejected their appeal but reduced Sheppard's sentence by one year and Whittle's by six months. (see below)

October

• Andy Unwin was convicted of two charges of abuse for sending abusive antisemitic messages on Facebook about his girlfriend's former employer. He was sentenced to three months imprisonment suspended for two years.
• Teenager Junaid Javaid was ordered by Edinburgh Sheriff Court to pay £1000 compensation to an Edinburgh synagogue after he was convicted of smashing the synagogue windows with a baseball bat.

July

• Zayn Younis a student from Halifax, West Yorkshire was convicted of daubing 'Free Gaza' and 'Kill the Jews' on the walls of Calderdale College where he was a student. He was given a conditional discharge but ordered to pay £120 compensation to the college at the local magistrates' court.
• Paul Fretwell appeared in a Leeds magistrate's court charged with racially aggravated intentional harassment after sending hate mail to a synagogue in Leeds during 2008. He was subsequently convicted, given a 100-hour community service order, ordered to participate in a 14-week hate crime programme and is to be supervised by the probation service for a rehabilitation period of 12 months.

May

• BNP member Kris Cherry, who had previously served four years imprisonment on manslaughter charges, was convicted of firing a toy pellet gun at a Jewish man and sentenced to a one-year supervision order.

March

• Three boys, all aged 15, were fined at Bury Youth Court for a racially motivated attack on a Jewish man and his non-Jewish friend following a football match at Prestwich, Manchester. One of the perpetrators was found guilty of assault and given a 12-month referral order, fined sixteen hundred pounds and ordered to pay three hundred pounds costs; a second was given a 6-month referral order and fined one hundred pounds; the third given a 12-month referral order and a 6-month curfew.
• British First Party leader, Kevin Quinn was convicted of religiously aggravated public disorder after delivering a tirade of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim abuse from a platform he had set up in a shopping precinct in Watford. The case was a retrial after a jury had failed to agree on a verdict at his first trial in 2008.

February

• A schoolboy who could not be named because of his age was convicted of abusing a Jewish schoolboy on a bus taking them home from school in north-west London in November 2008. He was given an Anti-Social Behaviour Order at Hendon Magistrates Court. Under the terms of the order, he was prohibited from using racist or abusive behaviour while travelling on public transport and restrictions were placed on the times when he can use public transport.

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2008

December

• A teenager who could not be named because of his age was charged with racially aggravated harassment and assault for attacking a Jewish school pupil on a bus in Hendon, North London. The arrest followed a proactive policing operation designed to catch assailants of Jewish pupils.
• Two far right activists who published racist and antisemitic pamphlets and articles on the Heretical Press website hosted in the USA were found guilty at Leeds crown court in June, of publishing racially inflammatory written material. However, both men fled to the USA before the end of their trial and claimed political asylum on arrival at Los Angeles airport. In their absence, Simon Sheppard was found guilty of the eighteen charges he faced, and Stephen Whittle, who wrote under the pen name of Luke O'Farrell, was found guilty of the five counts he faced. In March 2009 they were due to have their asylum request reviewed but were detained in the interim in Santa Anna jail in Orange County, Los Angeles. The pamphlets, which were delivered to homes and synagogues, included the American publication Tales of the Holohoax and Don't be Sheeple, both of which deny the Holocaust. (see above)

June

• Martin Gilleard, a leader of the British Peoples Party and former member of the NF, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment at Leeds crown court following his conviction for terrorism offences in June. He planned to bomb mosques and other buildings connected to minority groups, including Jews, in Leeds where he lived. In court, the police stated that he had a collection of Nazi memorabilia and propaganda at his home.
• Martin Harris was convicted for giving Nazi salutes at Blackpool magistrates court in June and given an anti social behaviour order.
• Ashraf Ali was convicted at Portsmouth magistrates court in June of sending an anthrax-like white powder together with antisemitic messages to the offices of a Jewish newspaper and two synagogues in Hampshire. On one of them, he wrote "All Jews Die". He was given a nine-month sentence and suspended for two years and put under a two-year supervision order.
• Jefferson Azevedo was sentenced to four years imprisonment at Southwark crown court for sending over 150 racist messages and packages containing caustic soda, which burns on contact with the skin, through the post. They included one containing a swastika and copies of America white supremacist groups' publications to an elderly Holocaust survivor.

May

• Maher Khammash was convicted with sending antisemitic email messages to the offices of a Jewish newspaper.

February

• An unnamed (because of his age) teenager was convicted of making racist comments and giving a Nazi salute to people leaving Hale synagogue near Manchester, in February and given a conditional discharge.
• Anthony Twigg, Jonathan Dougan, Mark Hargreaves and an unnamed (because of his age) teenager were convicted of assaulting a rabbi at his Prestwich Manchester home and stealing Hebrew books and phylacteries.

January

• Christopher Mitchell was convicted of anti-Jewish chanting at Barnet football stadium during a match between Barnet FC and Arsenal FC.

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2007

September

• A Jewish customer services worker was awarded four thousand pounds by a Birmingham industrial tribunal after a successful claim that he had been hounded out of his job by his antisemitic employer, a local telecommunications company.
• Christopher John Lyons was sentenced to 12 months in a youth offenders institution suspended for two years after he had attacked a strictly orthodox student in Prestwich Manchester with an iron bar causing serious head injuries. During the attack, Lyon and two other assailants told their victim that he was going to die. The unduly lenient sentence was appealed by the police and condemned by CST. The Solicitor General subsequently referred the case to the Court of Appeal, but the sentence was upheld despite an admission by the court that the sentence was light, on the grounds that Lyons had also to serve a 12-month supervision order and carry out 200 hours of unpaid social work.

August

• Edward Crowe was sentenced to fourteen days in prison at Cheltenham magistrates court for contempt after he called a visibly Jewish judge a 'dirty Jew'. Crowe was in court facing charges of assault, threatening behaviour, criminal damage, stealing a car and possessing offensive weapons. After passing sentence, the judge who has a rabbinic ordination and wears a skullcap treated Crowe to a lecture on Jewish history.
• Waeil Hammed was convicted at St Albans crown court of using racially abusive words, racially aggravated assault and common assault. Hammed's assault was against a member of the local Watford Jewish community who had objected to antisemitic remarks he had made out loud in a local café.

May

• Mohammed Rizwan and Baber Mansoor were sentenced to 12 months imprisonment each at Stoke-on-Trent crown court for causing racially aggravated harassment against the Jewish community officials in the Midlands. Bomb threats made to a local pub, in which they lauded al Qaeda, were traced to their mobile phones and led to their apprehension.

April

• Five men were found guilty of plotting an al-Qaeda inspired bomb attack in the UK. The men obtained 600kg of ammonium nitrate, which they kept in a storage unit in West London, as well as aluminium powder. The men were heard discussing possible targets including Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London, the utilities network and a plan to hijack and crash a British Airways plane. A 12-page list of synagogues with locations across Britain, including London and Manchester, was found at the home of two of the men. Omar Khyam, from Crawley, was found guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions and possessing two articles for the purpose of terrorism and was jailed for life with a minimum of 40 years. Waheed Mahmood, from Crawley, was found guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions and jailed for life with a minimum of 40 years. Anthony Garcia, from Barkingside, was convicted of conspiracy to cause explosions and possessing an article for the purpose of terrorism and jailed for life with a minimum of 40 years.Jawad Akbar, froom Crawly, was convicted of conspiracy to cause explosions and jailed for life with a minimum of 35 years. Salahuddin Amin, from Luton, was found guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions and jailed for life with a minimum of 35 years.

February

• Andrew Young and Martyn Closs were convicted of spraying swastikas and antisemitic graffiti on the war memorial in Troon, Scotland.

January

• Anthony White, a convicted far-right activist, was found guilty of distributing extremist literature and sentenced to twenty-one months imprisonment at Bradford Crown Court. Police seized large quantities of flyers and stickers, as well as DVD's and CD's, some of which were antisemitic, and material from the hard disc of White's computer.

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2006

December

• Abu Hamza al-Masri, the prominent Islamist and leader of Supporters of Shariah, lost his appeal at the High Court in London against his conviction for soliciting murder and stirring up racial hatred. In February he had been found guilty of 11 of the 15 charges that he faced: 6 of these related to soliciting to murder; 3 to stirring up racial hatred; 1 to owning records which incited racial hatred; 1 to possessing a 'terrorist encyclopaedia'. Evidence for the racial hatred charges included telling worshippers at the North London Mosque, Finsbury Park in 2000 that, "we do not hate Jews because they hurt each other, we hate them for their corruption of the earth". In one video, Abu Hamza had stated that "The Jews are cursed. Hitler was sent to torture and humiliate the Jews, and every last Jew is going to be buried in Palestine... You will fight them until every tree and stone says 'O Muslim, you servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him'. In another, he stated "Our houses are full of Jews. In the television, in the radio, in the books of your children".

November

• Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle, who writes as Luke O'Farrell, appeared at Hull Crown Court charged with incitement to racial hatred as a result of material posted on Sheppard's Heretical Press website. Their material had also been sent to synagogues. (see above)

October

• Simon Dunn, a performing arts student, who verbally abused a student rabbi in a local supermarket was fined £225 and ordered to pay £75 costs after pleading guilty to a racially aggravated harassment at Trafford Magistrates Court, Manchester.

September

• Paul Jonathan Mahon was convicted of malicious communication, and fined £150 for phoning a synagogue in Newcastle and leaving a message which stated: "following your killing of the children of the Lebanon, be on warning that your children are now targets in Newcastle".

August

• A Jewish secretary who endured a campaign of antisemitic bullying by 4 female co workers at Deutsche Bank Services UK in the city, was awarded £800,000 in damages in the High Court.
• William Galbraith, a 79-year-old, was found guilty of racially aggravated assault, and given a 12-month conditional discharge, after he had abused and spat at a group of strictly Orthodox Jews sitting on a Norfolk beach in August 2004. Galbraith was also ordered to pay costs.
• Two 14-year-old girls who could not be named because of their age were found guilty of robbery and attempted robbery after they stole a bracelet and attacked a Jewish girl on a London bus. Although not charged with a racially aggravated crime, it was clear from the evidence that their motivation was antisemitic, as they asked the victim if she was Jewish before they attacked her. The victim had been left unconscious after the assault. One attacker was sentenced to 10 months custody in a young offenders institution; the other received an 18-month supervision order.

July

• Caroline Smith, her 18-year-old son Michael, and an unnamed 16-year-old were convicted of assaulting a Jewish woman and her husband in Manchester. Mrs Smith was given a 4-month prison sentence suspended for two years; her son, a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years; the 16-year-old, a 12-month rehabilitation order.

March

• Two teenagers, who could not be named because of their age, were sentenced to a total of 7 years in a young offenders institution following a three-day campaign of violent robberies and antisemitic verbal threats against Jewish school pupils in north London in June 2004.
• David Young was jailed for four months in January at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, Scotland on a charge of religiously aggravated breach of the peace after he had shouted antisemitic abuse at passers by, and painted a swastika on the front of his home. His offence arose after he had been aroused by the screening of a television documentary on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
• Bamidele Omisore-Arayemi, a 20-year-old student from Bournemouth was found guilty of racially aggravated harassment after he verbally abused Jewish staff and customers in a restaurant in Hackney, north London.

February

• Gerald Goddard, a 63-year-old taxi driver from Wakefield, was jailed for 6 weeks, after pleading guilty to several counts of racially aggravated criminal damage after he had daubed antisemitic graffiti on walls at Manchester airport in four separate incidents. On one occasion, he had drawn a swastika and had written 'finish the job Hitler started'.

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2005

November

• Six members of the extreme right Racial Volunteer Force were jailed after pleading guilty to conspiracy to stir up racial hatred in a series of antisemitic articles published in Stormer. Mark Atkinson was sentenced to five years, Nigel Piggins to two and a half years, Jonathan Hill to four years, Steven Bostock to two and a half years and Michael Dennis to one year. Kevin Quinn, leader of the November 9 Society, also pleaded guilty to possessing The Longest Hatred and was sentenced to nine months, suspended for two years.
• (It should be noted that Lady Jane Birdwood was convicted in 1994 for publishing and distributing The Longest Hatred, in which she denied the Holocaust. Atkinson and Bostock also pleaded guilty to managing the RVF website with the intention of stirring up racial hatred and Piggins admitted distributing a racist DVD).

October

• Simon Johnston, who had desecrated a Jewish Cemetery in Birmingham in August 2004, lost his appeal against his six-year jail sentence. His accomplice, Karl Jones, was imprisoned for 14 months in March.

July

• Zaheen Mohammed was sentenced to a two-year community rehabilitation order for distributing anti-Jewish leaflets in October 2000 which stated that: "the hour will not come until Muslims fight the Jews and kill them." The court noted that the offence would ordinarily have merited a custodial sentence but a rehabilitation order was more appropriate due to Mohammed's poor mental health.

April

• Riaz Mohammed Burahee was sentenced to a three-year community rehabilitation order at Wood Green Crown Court, London and banned from contacting or entering any synagogues after pleading guilty to ten specimen charges of making threatening calls to synagogues in the London area in March 2004.
• Mark Peacock, a seventeen-year-old from Gateshead, was sentenced to two years detention in September for a racially motivated attack against a Jewish man and his daughter.

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2004

December

• A 16-year-old boy of Russian origin was given a twelve-month community rehabilitation order and placed under six months curfew for his part in the series of attacks on a Jewish cemetery in East London which resulted in the destruction of over 500 gravestones in 2003, the most serious attack on a Jewish cemetery ever recorded.

September

• David Young was jailed for four months in January at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, Scotland on a charge of religiously aggravated breach of the peace after he had shouted antisemitic abuse at passers by, and painted a swastika on the front of his home. His offence arose after he had been aroused by the screening of a television documentary on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

August

• Aaron Hatch was jailed for four years at Southampton Crown Court for an assault on a Jewish youth in February which shattered his jaw in four places. His two younger accomplices were each given community-based punishments. A police search of Hatch's home revealed it contained neo-Nazi material.

July

• Two teenagers, Jerome Bingham and Michael Sinclair, were both jailed for eight years at the Central Criminal Court London for a series of violent attacks on Jewish homes in north-west London.

May

• Two Al Muhajiroun activists were found guilty of racially aggravated offences under the Public Order Act after displaying posters on a stall describing Israel as the 'Nazis of today'. Mohammed Akunjee and Siddartha Dhar were given conditional discharges for two years.

March

• Alexander Tsiorulin, a vagrant Russian émigré, received a twelve-month conditional discharge after displaying antisemitic posters in Parliament Square London. A passing Jewish taxi driver had been outraged by his posters and had complained to the police.

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2003

July

• The High Court rejected an appeal brought by Mark Anthony Norwood, the BNP Regional Organiser for Shropshire and a local councillor, following his conviction in 2002 for having a poster in the window of his home which was offensive to Muslims. The Court rejected the appeal and confirmed that an offence had been committed which was motivated by hostility towards members of a religious group, the first case brought under new legislation. During the same month, Norwood was also given a six-month community rehabilitation order and ordered to pay costs after being found guilty of an assault on a man who he had thought was Jewish.

February

• Phillip Norman from Bucknel was jailed for eighteen months after pleading guilty to a campaign of racially aggravated harassment against a Jewish Radio West Midlands presenter. Norman had bombarded him with more than one hundred antisemitic abusive and threatening emails.
• Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, who had urged Muslims to kill Jews, was jailed for nine years in March for soliciting murder and using threatening and insulting words in taped lectures. He was further sentenced to be deported on completion of his prison term. In February 2004 his sentence was reduced to seven years by the Court of Appeal.

January

• Francis Dunlavey, a Manchester City football fan, was banned from football grounds for three years and fined for making indecent and racial chants when he made antisemitic comments at a game against Tottenham Hotspurs in December 2002.

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