Jury dismissed in Leicester trial of man accused of ripping up his Koran – no retrial planned

National Secular Society Blog
January 9, 2013

https://www.legal-project.org/3766/jury-dismissed-in-leicester-trial-of-man-accused

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The trial has collapsed of a Leicester man who was accused of causing "religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress by demonstrating hostility based on membership of a particular religious group". Peter James Crawford was said to have torn pages from his own copy of the Koran and thrown the book on the ground shouting "Your religion is a load of b***cks". He did this next to a stall run by the Islamic Information Centre, near the Clock Tower, in Leicester city centre, last May.

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