26 November 2010 - 20:30

The Leicester Mercury reports that EDL supporter Lee Whitby has been convicted of chanting "threatening, abusive or insulting" words that were likely to cause "harassment, alarm or distress" during an EDL demonstration in Leicester last month

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Leicester Mercury reports that EDL supporter Lee Whitby has been convicted of chanting "threatening, abusive or insulting" words that were likely to cause "harassment, alarm or distress" during an EDL demonstration in Leicester last month.

According to the Mercury Whitby was convicted of a "racially aggravated" offence. The BBC earlier earlier reported that Whitby had been charged with a religiously aggravated offence.

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