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01 Nov 16
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Two men who threw rashers of bacon inside a north London mosque in a racially motivated attack have been jailed for eights months.
Mateusz Pawlikowski, 22, and Piotr Czak-Zukowski, 28, walked into Al-Rahman Mosque in north London as worshippers were getting ready for evening prayer.
Pawlikowski approached one of them, swore at him, and threw a rasher of bacon towards him, continuing to throw further rashers on the floor of the prayer room.
The defendants showed a complete disregard for the faith and belief of others in this callous and highly offensive incident; and I hope their convictions highlight that we will not tolerate hate crime in any of its forms.
I know this incident has had a significant impact on the community and commend the victims for speaking up.
Hate crime is often a hidden crime and it is essential we stand together with policing partners, colleagues and groups to investigate all such allegations, support victims and bring perpetrators to justice.
– DC TRACEY MCMATH, FROM THE CAMDEN COMMUNITY SAFETY UNIT
Mateusz Pawlikowski, 22, and Piotr Czak-Zukowski, 28, walked into Al-Rahman Mosque in north London as worshippers were getting ready for evening prayer.
Pawlikowski approached one of them, swore at him, and threw a rasher of bacon towards him, continuing to throw further rashers on the floor of the prayer room.
The defendants showed a complete disregard for the faith and belief of others in this callous and highly offensive incident; and I hope their convictions highlight that we will not tolerate hate crime in any of its forms.
I know this incident has had a significant impact on the community and commend the victims for speaking up.
Hate crime is often a hidden crime and it is essential we stand together with policing partners, colleagues and groups to investigate all such allegations, support victims and bring perpetrators to justice.
– DC TRACEY MCMATH, FROM THE CAMDEN COMMUNITY SAFETY UNIT
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8 MONTHS FOR CHUCKING A PIECE OF BACON ABOUT...YOU TELLING PORKIES RON?
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http://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-11-01/men-jailed-for-throwing-rashers-of-bacon-inside-a-mosque/
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burn a poppy and its a slap on the wrist haha
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Seems incredible that you can get a jail sentence for a childish prank where no damage was done and no one was hurt.
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I agree Dr Crippen, suspended sentence and a fine enough
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when we have sharia law it will be sorted
oh hang we already have it at least 85 sharia courts run by old men - don't you just love it EMBRACE!!! british law is already complicit as well as May's bending the knee to it and as a bradford lab mp wants to back it!!! |
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The way we lean back towards political correctness beggars belief
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Suspended sentence is just to ensure they don't do it again
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Agree doctor, if it was bricks you can cause damage, but jail for hurting someone's feelings?
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how long do you give it till you will not be allowed to post or even say anything critical about islam etc
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Not quite Twizzle, or perhaps Ron is being economical with the truth.... Take your pick.
Mateusz Pawlikowski, 22 (5.10.94) of Wilton Road, N10 and Piotr Czak-Zukowski, 28 (23.7.88) of Sneath Avenue, NW11, both Polish nationals, appeared at Blackfriars Crown Court today, Tuesday 1 November, where they were both sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for criminal damage and eight months' imprisonment for a racial / religious public order offence. The sentences are to run concurrently. |
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F#ck em
Idiots |
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No wonder hate crimes up
 Obviously wrong - but a prison sentence? would think they'd bring back the death penalty if anyone trashed one of these places! |
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blackbarn...bacon...porkies..get it?
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there's going to be several defenders of the faith on here who will be very upset when they find out it was poles ha ha!!!
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Yoo'd get a five stretch for a leg of pork
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Fck you porcupine you poor excuse for a pineapple
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flew straight over blackbarns head twizzle
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Twizzle - I got it!!, I even got the lean back
 - I make my own bacon though so I may be a receptive audience. My point was that these two guys were not just charged with throwing rashers about but with "criminal damage" which may explain the sentence. I apologise for introducing missing facts to ron's original post . |
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Ron - flew straight over blackbarns head twizzle.
 . Says the poster who can't even get a simple story complete. |
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i can't remember the original report blackbarn, im sure it wasn't nothing
to bad, might have kicked their shoes about or something like that? |
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Was the criminal damage just smears of fat?
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The" criminal damage" charge is just to beef up the supposed offence of lobbing a few lumps of streaky about ..as mentioned by mobo burning the poppy counts for nowt...aghhhh!
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found it
Piotr Czak-Zukowski, 28, and Mateusz Pawlikowski, 21, also threw rashers at the shoe rack of the Al-Rahman Mosque in Camden, and a piece landed inside a shoe. not inside the shoe  thats obviously the criminal damage . http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/men-pelt-worshippers-mosque-bacon-8984499 |
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They're clamping down on hate crime thinking that they'll nip it in the bud.
Yet it's an unequal exercise. So all they're doing is to kindle hate in people who wouldn't otherwise be concerned, because of the double standards they're setting regarding leniency for some and the heavy hand for others. Treat everyone the same and it might fizzle out. Doing it this way is simply stoking it up. |
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Ron - I am struggling with "im sure it wasnt nothing to bad" For me, I have no idea whether it was anything too "bad" either. I was merely quoting the Met Police report of the offence and sentence.
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Yoo'd get a five stretch for a leg of pork Sad |
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now if that was me in the mosque id say alright lads, you've had your bit of
fun, lets call it a night! that's the problem though they've got no sense of humour! |
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Ah yes..Hate crime ..a dead easy nick for plod and a great way of toadying up to the Muslim community.
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When people see others being jailed for something as trivial as this. All it does is to harden their attitude towards Muslims.
That is not what the authorities are trying to do, but is certainly the result. |
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Stoking up hate by applying double standards.
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Lovely bit of Bacon and Cabbage /spuds tonight ,the cxnts dont know what they are missing
Sounds like two Polish Chaps carried out the Bacon Attack  |
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Betcha Abdul ate well that night
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Ron - the Mirror report seems to support the Met Police report - "both admitted religiously aggravated criminal damage and religiously aggravated harassment".
You say "and a piece landed inside a shoe. not inside the shoe Cry thats obviously the criminal damage Grin This makes little sense, but whatever you seem to be guessing at what exactly represented the "criminal damage" I have no idea, but more importantly neither it seems do you. |
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Possession of a knife can carry a prison sentence of up to 4 years even if it's not used
Not sure how accurate the above is, but wouldn't have thought the sentence would be much different had they replaced that bacon with knifes and not used them? |
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As Ron correctly points out they really DO NOT have any sense of humour..take themselves and there $hit religion far to serious
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They're idiots. They chose to throw pork, not lamb. They knew exactly what they were doing and wanted to get a reaction. Well, they got one. Dickheads. Maybe spend your bird thinking of doing something constructive with your life rather than trying to just upset someone eh.
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yes and their toilets wreak
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