Drunken man who stuffed ham in Muslims' shoes, hung meat slices outside mosque spared jail time

by Philip Caulfield
New York Daily News
June 7, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1450/drunken-man-who-stuffed-ham-in-muslims-shoes-hung

Excerpt:

A drunken British man who stuffed ham inside Muslim worshipers' shoes and draped meat outside a mosque as they prayed was spared a jail term because he apologized.

Jamie Knowlson, 30, pleaded guilty to racially or religiously aggravated harassment last month and was facing two years in jail for the drunken stunt.

A judge in Bristol, England, let him walk with a six-month suspended term last week because he apologized to mosque officials, The Telegraph reported.

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