- CPS introduced no proof for 2 defendants.
- Now not responsible verdicts had been entered by way of pass judgement on.
- Defendants officially acquitted of all fees.
LONDON: The Crown Prosecution Provider (CPS) has dropped anti-semitism fees in opposition to 4 British Muslims, losing the case altogether.
On Thursday, the CPS on behalf of the Counter Terrorism Department introduced no proof for 2 defendants Jawaad Hussain and Mohammed Iftikhar Hanif. In early July this yr, the CPS dropped fees in opposition to Adil Mota and Asif Ali and determined to proceed prosecuting Hussain and Hanif.
Their trial was once because of happen on Monday at Wooden Inexperienced Crown Court docket however the CPS introduced no proof ahead of the court docket on Thursday and introduced it was once no longer prosecuting the remainder two any longer.
The prosecution knowledgeable the court docket it was once making the appliance following additional attention of the proof as a part of the prosecution’s accountability of constant evaluation it’s been determined there is not any longer a practical prospect of conviction in the case of each defendants. The case was once heard by way of Pass judgement on N Lucas KC, the honorary recorder of Haringey.
Now not responsible verdicts had been entered by way of the pass judgement on and the defendants had been officially acquitted of all fees.
“I and others had been protesting our innocence for the reason that day of the arrest 18 months in the past. It’s scary that the Counter Terrorism Department, regardless of all its sources took this lengthy to grasp we had been blameless,” stated Hussain.
“We really feel there must be an investigation as to why we had been going through such critical fees within the first position. Our entire existence was once placed on dangle. Individuals who is not going to get to understand the result will think we’re responsible of those offences. We really feel moderately than totally examine the incident, the police had been below political power from the High Minister’s Workplace at the day of the incident when the video was once shared on all social media platforms.”
Hanif, Hussain, Ali and Mota had been charged with anti-Semitic abuse from a convoy of automobiles in north London on Would possibly 16 ultimate yr. They had been accused of passing the remarks right through a travel from Blackburn to London as a part of a pro-Palestinian rally referred to as “Convoy for Palestine”.
The boys had been arrested after a video circulated on social media in Would possibly which perceived to display antisemitic abuse being shouted from a automobile travelling in a convoy adorned with Palestinian flags.
Once they had been charged ultimate yr, all 4 pleaded no longer responsible to spreading racial hatred in opposition to the Jewish other people.
The CPS had advised the pass judgement on at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket that Hanif, Hussein, Ali and Mota had been charged with anti-Semitic abuse from a convoy of automobiles in north London on 16 Would possibly after they travelled from Blackburn to London.
Prosecutors stated the 4 males had been enthusiastic about “issuing dying threats and racial hatred in opposition to Jewish other people” and for this objective, they went to the Finchley house of London the place a big Jewish neighborhood is living.