• Privacy policy
  • T&C’s
  • About Us
    • FAQ
    • Meet the Team
  • Contact us
  • Guest Content
TLE ONLINE SHOP!
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Opinion
  • Elevenses
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
  • Food
    • All Food
    • Recipes
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
  • JOBS
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
SUPPORT THE LONDON ECONOMIC
NEWSLETTER
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Opinion
  • Elevenses
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
  • Food
    • All Food
    • Recipes
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
  • JOBS
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Former soldier walks free from court after targeting Muslims on social media in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing

A former soldier has walked free from court after targeting Muslims on social media in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing. Geoffrey Reynolds, 53, sent tweets saying he was “trained and ready” for any of those who were set to “try it on” following the attack on May 22. He also posted a picture […]

Guest Contributor by Guest Contributor
2017-12-14 10:38
in News
FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailWhatsapp

A former soldier has walked free from court after targeting Muslims on social media in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing.

Geoffrey Reynolds, 53, sent tweets saying he was “trained and ready” for any of those who were set to “try it on” following the attack on May 22.

He also posted a picture of a man on a toilet with the words “The Koran, now in two ply”.

Reynolds admitted one charge of sending offensive public communications on May 27 at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

Prosecutor Hendrika Tatum said: “These took place five days after the Manchester bombing.

“On that day, a PC became aware of a Twitter account in the name of the defendant.

“The account showed it was located in Colchester.”

Among the Tweets was another which stated: “When will we fight back?”

The court heard Reynolds had no previous convictions and was a man of previous good character.

RelatedPosts

Unite secures 28% pay rise for hundreds of Luton airport workers

Woman dies from hypothermia after telling her doctor she ‘couldn’t afford heating’

Serving Met Police officer pleads guilty to child sexual offences

BBC chairman set to be grilled by MPs amid questions over Boris Johnson loan

Geoffrey Reynolds, 53.

Ralph Piggott, mitigating, said Reynolds had been under undue stress from his job as a manager at a bottled drinks factory and his family life and had turned to alcohol.

He said: “It may be no one in the world saw what he was writing but clearly it is an offence which does have culpability.

“He maintains he is not a racist, not an Islamaphobe and he is to be credited he has researched the Muslim religion and says he now realises there to be good and bad in all religions.

“He is very regretful and ashamed of what he has done.”

Reynolds, who served in the Army for five years, sighed in court when he was sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment, which was suspended for a year.

He was told he would have faced an 18 week sentence following CPS upscaling hate crime sentences recently, but it was reduced due to his early guilty plea.

Reynolds, from Colchester, Essex, was also fined £750 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £115 victim surcharge.

In August, it was announced the CPS would be cracking down on online hate crime and upping it to stop it from leading to extremist hate.

Twenty two people lost their lives in the Manchester Arena bombing on May 22. The attacker, 22-year-old Salman Ramadan Abedi, also died.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/18-year-old-self-made-millionaire-donates-e100000-victims-manchester-attack/26/05/

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/must-reads/manchester-arena-bomb-victim-saffie-roussos-become-star-right/13/09/

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/tory-plot-pull-uk-eu-working-time-directive-see-7m-uk-workers-lose-rights-paid-holidays/18/12/

Since you are here

Since you are here, we wanted to ask for your help.

Journalism in Britain is under threat. The government is becoming increasingly authoritarian and our media is run by a handful of billionaires, most of whom reside overseas and all of them have strong political allegiances and financial motivations.

Our mission is to hold the powerful to account. It is vital that free media is allowed to exist to expose hypocrisy, corruption, wrongdoing and abuse of power. But we can't do it without you.

If you can afford to contribute a small donation to the site it will help us to continue our work in the best interests of the public. We only ask you to donate what you can afford, with an option to cancel your subscription at any point.

To donate or subscribe to The London Economic, click here.

The TLE shop is also now open, with all profits going to supporting our work.

The shop can be found here.

You can also SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER .

Subscribe to our Newsletter

View our  Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

Trending on TLE

  • All
  • trending
Abdollah

‘Rescue us’: Afghan teacher begs UK to help him escape Taliban

CHOMSKY: “If Corbyn had been elected, Britain would be pursuing a much more sane course”

What If We Got Rid Of Prisons?

More from TLE

Feeling blue? Number of UK passports plummet by 2.5 million

Gym Threatens Fat People With Alien Abduction

Johnson pledges to take back control of immigration with Australian- style system

‘Very unwise’: Top reaction as Boris looks to tear up his own Brexit deal

Cobra reported missing in the boot of a taxi

Watch – Invasion fears sparked after second mammoth jellyfish spotted in British waters

Watch: Motorist wishes cancer on protester’s family as Insultate Britain block roads

Sickening footage shows a chicken producer which supplies Asda, Lidl and Nando’s allegedly breaching animal cruelty laws

Rishi Sunak hires journalist as communications director

Getting the munchies after smoking Cannabis is real

JOBS

FIND MORE JOBS

About Us

TheLondonEconomic.com – Open, accessible and accountable news, sport, culture and lifestyle.

Read more

Contact

Editorial enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Commercial enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Address

The London Economic Newspaper Limited t/a TLE
Company number 09221879
International House,
24 Holborn Viaduct,
London EC1A 2BN,
United Kingdom

SUPPORT

We do not charge or put articles behind a paywall. If you can, please show your appreciation for our free content by donating whatever you think is fair to help keep TLE growing and support real, independent, investigative journalism.

DONATE & SUPPORT

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.




No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Food
  • Travel
  • JOBS
  • More…
    • Elevenses
    • Opinion
    • Property
    • Tech & Auto
  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Privacy policy
  • Contact us

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.