Ex-marine handed suspended sentence after sending "grossly offensive" email to mosque in Cambridge

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Sunday February 01 2015
Local paper, the Cambridge News, reports on the 12 week suspended sentence handed down to a former marine and ex-UKIP member who sent “grossly offensive” emails to a Cambridge mosque.
Ian Couch, 54, was arrested after the mosque secretary Abdul Muquith, who used the details in the offensive email to trace Couch on social media, found further anti-Muslim slurs on his Facebook page including a photo of a pig’s head.
Couch was charged with hate crime after Cambridge Magistrates Court accepted the prosecution’s case that Crouch acted with biased motivation.
Deputy district judge, Shanta Deonarine, sentencing Crouch said “I agree hatred underlined the offences. I feel this was an offence against the community as a whole.
“What you did had a wider impact, not just on the people you sent them [emails] to, and might have caused more violence and hatred.”
Couch was handed a 12 week sentence suspended for one year. He was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £80, £420 towards the prosecution’s costs and must complete a six-month alcohol treatment programme.