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Pensioner fined over racist letter to MSP in Fife
Fife pensioner who sent MSP Anas Sarwar a letter containing racist and offensive comments has been fined £450.
Arthur Robertson, 68, sent the mail to the Labour MSP's constituency office earlier this year.
He branded Islam "evil" and "demonic" and made derogatory comments about the Prophet Muhammad.
Robertson, from Dunfermline, pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to sending Mr Sarwar the racist letter on 27 February.
He also referred to the Koran as "a jumbled rambling book of scientific and historical inaccuracies".
Sheriff Shona Gilroy said: "You know that what you did was wrong" but said the court needed to show its disapproval.
The police were contacted after Mr Sarwar received the letter at his office on Paisley Road West, in February this year.
Robertson signed the letter from himself.
Pensioner fined over racist letter to MSP in Fife
Fife pensioner who sent MSP Anas Sarwar a letter containing racist and offensive comments has been fined £450.
Arthur Robertson, 68, sent the mail to the Labour MSP's constituency office earlier this year.
He branded Islam "evil" and "demonic" and made derogatory comments about the Prophet Muhammad.
Robertson, from Dunfermline, pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to sending Mr Sarwar the racist letter on 27 February.
He also referred to the Koran as "a jumbled rambling book of scientific and historical inaccuracies".
Sheriff Shona Gilroy said: "You know that what you did was wrong" but said the court needed to show its disapproval.
The police were contacted after Mr Sarwar received the letter at his office on Paisley Road West, in February this year.
Robertson signed the letter from himself.
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Be very interesting to see the whole letter.
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Aye, they must have left the racist bits out of the report.
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This maybe sheds some more light on the kind of language may have been used but the second part is on a different incident:
https://stv.tv/news/west-central/1426118-pensioner-fined-for-sending-racist-letter-to-labour-msp/ |
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His mother should have taught him the phrase 'Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me', then he could have thrown the letter in the bin and got on with his life.
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Interesting, and frightening, that the UK press now feel obliged to precede the child-rapist`s name with the title `profit`. Quislings.
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I thought the case involving Nick Griffin tested this 'Islam is a race' nonsense in court, he was acquitted.
This latest decision was only made in a Sheriffs Court. |
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I'm a middle-aged white bloke, what am I allowed to offended by?, I wanna take someone to court it would make me feel important.
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