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| Fined: Mohammed Ali, pictured, called a black BBC cameraman a slave |
UK - A judge told a sex attacker's brother who racially abused a BBC cameraman that he would have liked to have sent him to prison as he walked free from court. Camerman Marcel Bailey was preparing to record outside a crown court following a heated sexual assault sentencing when the defendant's brother, Mohammed Ali, stepped in front of the camera and began to hurl racial abuse at him. The father-of-one was this week convicted of calling the black BBC cameraman a 'slave' and telling him to 'get back to his plantation' as he tried to film an interview. District Judge Tim Pattinson found Ali, of Howard Street, Oxford, guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence when he appeared in front of a District Judge. But giving his verdict and sentence, he lamented that he could only fine Ali and suggested that had a more serious charge been brought against him, Ali could have been facing a jail term. Instead he could only order Ali, who told the court he had been on jobseekers' allowance 'for a couple of years,' to pay a £130 pounds fine, contribute towards prosecution costs of £100 pounds and pay £100 pounds compensation to Mr Bailey, as well as a £15 pound victim's surcharge. Full Story>>
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