Two Britons sentenced for breaking Ram idol

Author: UNI
Publication: The Hindu
Date: November 19, 2003
URL: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/00319190042.htm

The two Britons, who broke the idol of Lord Rama at the Ealing Road Sanatam Mandir in Wembley last month, were sentenced for "racially aggravated criminal damages".

The Brent Magistrate Court on November 17 sentenced Toby Champney to two months imprisonment for "racially aggravated criminal damages". His fellow Christian preacher, Benjamin Lloyd Jones was fined 400 pounds for racially aggravated threatening behaviour, and set free.

The lower court's sentence has angered the Hindu community and many of them have raised the question of why a higher court had not heard the case.
 


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