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After last year’s Southport stabbing, an elected working politician, who wanted those who rebelled for cutting their throats, was cleared of encouraging violence.
In the Snaresbrook Crown court, the 58-year-old workers ‘Assembly member Ricky Jones was not found to be guilty of encouraging violence after asking for the extreme right protesters’ throats to be cut in a rebellious anti-miting following the murders of Southport.
After the rebellion last summer after the Southport murders, 58 -year -old Ricky Jones described the extreme right activists as “disgusting Nazi fascists”, heard the hearing in Snaresbrook Crown Court.
Jones said that he did not refer to the extreme right protesters who participated in the uprisings at the time, but referred to those who left the national front stickers on a train with a razor blades hidden behind them.
Jones’ video appealing to the crowd in East London on August 7 last year, became viral on social media after the protest.
“You have women and children using these trains during summer holidays,” wearing a black polo and surrounded by cheering supporters.
“They don’t give anything about who they hurt.”
“Nazi fascists are disgusting. We must cut all their throats and get rid of them all.”
He also pulled his finger to his throat while talking to the crowd.
The Prosecutor’s Office claims that Jones, who worked as an official for the Union of Transportation Salary Personnel Association (TSSA), used an inflammatory, Rabble Rousing language “in front of a crowd they described as” Tinderbox “.
Inspector Jack May-Roinson said to the court before: “Any spark may have caused an event or disorder.”
However, during the evidence, Jones added the following, describing the mood of the crowd as “happy and cheerful”, he added: “There was no upset or anger from any person on this scene, because they clearly knew what this was on the train.”
After realizing what he said to the court, his father and grandfather said he felt “horrified”.
“When I had time to view the images after the show, I was actually shocked what I said,” he said to the jury members.
The jury also acknowledged that a medical report of prosecution and defense experts may not be considered a real -time, including Jones’ verbal understanding of verbal understanding ve and “that leads to misunderstanding the effect of the words” and “more slow cognitive processing.”
The show on August 7 was organized in response to an extreme right walking plans outside the Waltham Forest Immigration Office, and the jury members in Snaresbrook Crown Court were told.
Last summer after the Southport murders, the country’s disorder followed the country.
