A member of the tiny ‘Liberty GB’ party who billed himself as a ‘right-wing radio host’ has been jailed for 12 weeks for sending offensive emails to an online campaigner.
Timothy Burton, 64, branded Islam a “backwards, misogynistic, seventh-century” ideology in a series of emails to Fiyaz Mughal during April 2016.
He spoke at an English Defence League (EDL) demonstration in Walthamstow in May 2015, delivering a particularly nasty diatribe. As he toddles off to do his twelve weeks, it’ll be heartening for his supporters to know that at least the condemned man had a decent lunch before sentencing.
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