Post by basmaticathury on May 12, 2019 16:16:16 GMT
A man told theatre staff he hated English ‘pigs’ and he was ready to hurt men, women and children in the audience. Ryhan Ali, 23, also threatened to get a gun after showing up at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in Stratford-upon-Avon, on August 30.
Prosecutor Edward Hollingsworth said: ‘Mr Ali told security staff who spoke to him that he had gone there to hurt someone, saying he was going to take a knife into the theatre and talking of white people and Asians as “scum”.
‘He ranted that he hated the English and was “going to get a gun and kill English pigs.”’
When police arrived and arrested him, Ali called one of the officers ‘a racist white c***.’ A witness said Ali threatened if anyone went near him, whether they were a man, a woman or a child, he would hurt them.
Ali had been to court on the day he showed up to the theatre after abusing staff at Warwick Hospital on June 4 last year.
On that occasion he threatened to rape a man’s wife and kill his children and then called one of the police officers who arrested him ‘English scum’ and ‘white bastard’. He also called a security guard at the hospital a ‘p***’ and said he was ‘not a true Muslim’.
The court also heard on March 15 this year he racially abused his probation worker, while subject to a community order for earlier racially aggravated public order offences.
He is said to have told him: ‘I’m not scared of you. I’m going to come next week and sort you out, you f***ing black bastard.’
Ali also called a 999 call handler a ‘white bitch’ after she recognised his voice after he made nine calls to emergency services on May 2.
A court allowed him to walk free yesterday despite the threats he made after he admitted three racially aggravated offences, two of causing fear of violence and one of causing alarm or distress.
Judge Anthony Potter gave him a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered him to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work and to take part in a rehabilitation activity for up to 30 days. The judge told Ali, who lives in sported accommodation: ‘Sending you to prison would interfere with the care package which is in place.’
Prosecutor Edward Hollingsworth said: ‘Mr Ali told security staff who spoke to him that he had gone there to hurt someone, saying he was going to take a knife into the theatre and talking of white people and Asians as “scum”.
‘He ranted that he hated the English and was “going to get a gun and kill English pigs.”’
When police arrived and arrested him, Ali called one of the officers ‘a racist white c***.’ A witness said Ali threatened if anyone went near him, whether they were a man, a woman or a child, he would hurt them.
Ali had been to court on the day he showed up to the theatre after abusing staff at Warwick Hospital on June 4 last year.
On that occasion he threatened to rape a man’s wife and kill his children and then called one of the police officers who arrested him ‘English scum’ and ‘white bastard’. He also called a security guard at the hospital a ‘p***’ and said he was ‘not a true Muslim’.
The court also heard on March 15 this year he racially abused his probation worker, while subject to a community order for earlier racially aggravated public order offences.
He is said to have told him: ‘I’m not scared of you. I’m going to come next week and sort you out, you f***ing black bastard.’
Ali also called a 999 call handler a ‘white bitch’ after she recognised his voice after he made nine calls to emergency services on May 2.
A court allowed him to walk free yesterday despite the threats he made after he admitted three racially aggravated offences, two of causing fear of violence and one of causing alarm or distress.
Judge Anthony Potter gave him a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered him to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work and to take part in a rehabilitation activity for up to 30 days. The judge told Ali, who lives in sported accommodation: ‘Sending you to prison would interfere with the care package which is in place.’
