DAR AL HARB - U.K.: 9 MONTHS IN JAIL FOR A MAN THAT WANTED A MOSLEM TO LIFT HER VEIL

Drunk who asked Muslim woman to lift veil is sent to jail

A DRUNK who asked a Muslim woman to raise her veil in public has been jailed for nine months for his troubles. John Gallacher was the worst for drink, but did not touch Kadiza Begum.

Yet she insisted he was charged with religious harassment after the incident at a bus-stop in London's East End. The 31-year-old approached the veiled while they both waited at the stop in Whitechapel Road.

"He demanded she take off her veil as he was a police officer," prosecutor Heather Stangoe told Snaresbrook crown court. "She took a couple of steps back and Gallacher continued to step forward.

"Two other Asian woman screamed at him to leave her alone. Then two passing officers came to her aid and threatened to fine Gallacher. But Ms Begum demanded he be charged. So Gallacher was arrested, following the incident on October 9.

Gallacher told the court he had recently been beaten up by Asians and was speaking to the woman at the bus stop and just wanted to know who he was talking to. He admitted religiously aggravated harassment. His lawyer Edward Ferner said: "There was, of course, no physical contact."

But Judge Martin Reynolds said Parliament has made it clear any form of racial or religious insult is "not to be tolerated." He told Gallacher: "I accept there was no physical touching. Nevertheless, it is a serious matter."

The judge then jailed the father-of-one, who had already spent 135 days in a cell on remand, which means he could be out in a month.


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