Index on Censorship » Fiona Bone http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Fiona Bone http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Manchester man given eight months jail for cop-killer T-shirt http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/10/barry-thew-police-tshirt-manchester/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/10/barry-thew-police-tshirt-manchester/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:01:29 +0000 Daisy Williams http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=40965 A man has been sentenced to a total of eight months in prison by a Manchester court for wearing a T-shirt daubed with offensive comments referring the murders of PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes. Barry Thew, of Radcliffe, Greater Manchester admitted to a Section 4A Public Order Offence today (11 October) for wearing [...]

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]]> A man has been sentenced to a total of eight months in prison by a Manchester court for wearing a T-shirt daubed with offensive comments referring the murders of PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes. Barry Thew, of Radcliffe, Greater Manchester admitted to a Section 4A Public Order Offence today (11 October) for wearing the T-shirt, on which he had written the messages “”One less pig; perfect justice”” and “killacopforfun.com haha”. Inspector Bryn Williams, of the Radcliffe Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “To mock or joke about the tragic events of that morning is morally reprehensible and Thew has rightly been convicted and sentenced for his actions.” Thew had been reported to police after wearing the article around three-and-a-half hours after the officers were shot dead in Greater Manchester on 2 October. UPDATE: According to the Manchester Evening News, four months of Thew’s sentence was handed down for breach of a previous suspended sentence Also this week 08 October 2012 | Man jailed for offensive Facebook comments about missing schoolgirl 09 October 2012 | Yorkshire man sentenced over offensive Twitter comments directed at soldiers  

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