EDL Supporter Admits Causing Criminal Damage During Leicester Rally
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Thursday March 24 2011
| The Leicester Mercury reported that a man who smashed the window of a local takeaway during an English Defence League protest in Leicester in October has “admitted causing criminal damage worth £1500.” |
“Gareth Mooney (29) of Sandown Court, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, broke the shop window of Big John’s Takeaway, in Humberstone Road on October 9 last year.
“Liz Dodds, prosecuting, told Leicester magistrates that Mooney was one of about 200 protesters who broke through a police cordon in Queens Street at about 4pm to challenge a group of Asian youths.
“She said: ‘Mr Mooney was caught on CCTV giving a forceful kick to the window, causing it to shatter in a spider effect.’’
“‘His behaviour instigated the subsequent attack on the building which caused a total of £5,000 damage.’”
This report follows that of three other sentences being handed to EDL supporters for their part in the disorders during the extremist march. Ten people were originally charged in October with a mix of public order offences, including suspicion of assaulting a police officer, possessing an offensive weapon.
You can see the video of the attack on Big John’s Takeaway below.