They filmed the abuse and then released it on social media
The leader and deputy leader of far-right group Britain First have been found guilty of religiously-aggravated harassment.
Paul Golding, 36, and Jayda Fransen, 31, were arrested over the distribution of leaflets and posting of online videos during a Muslim gang-rape trial.
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The court heard they had targeted homes and people in Kent whom they believed [to be] connected to a rape trial at Canterbury Crown Court where three Muslim men and a teenager were convicted of rape and jailed.
Is this a matter of free speech, or of targeted harassment?
I think it’s the second.
During their trial in January, Folkestone Magistrates’ Court heard the pair confronted people they believed were defendants in the gang-rape trial.
However, in each case, they instead targeted innocent members of the public.
They filmed the abuse and then released it on social media and through the Britain First website.
They also posted offensive leaflets through the letterboxes of houses in the area where the rape-trial defendants lived.
Up close and personal; that’s harassment.
Especially as they are misidentifying the targets as being involved in the rape trial. That’s outright slander, which even most free-speech zealots agree should get smacked down.