Ex-soldier jailed for burning Koran in Carlisle

BBC News
April 19, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1332/ex-soldier-jailed-for-burning-koran-in-carlisle

Excerpt:

A former soldier has been sentenced to 70 days in prison for setting fire to a copy of Muslim holy book the Koran in the centre of Carlisle.

Andrew Ryan had previously admitted religiously aggravated harassment and theft of a Koran from a library.

The 32-year-old, of Summerhill, said he had been "shocked" watching a Muslim burning a poppy on Remembrance Day.

Shoppers and schoolchildren witnessed the burning, outside the old Town Hall, on 19 January.

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