‘Don’t protect the mosque. Blow the mosque up with the adults in it.’
That Facebook comment has earned a Cheshire woman 15 months in prison. Julie Sweeney was reacting to a photo of people helping to repair a mosque in the aftermath of the riots triggered by last month’s stabbing attack in Southport that left three children dead. The prosecutor conceded that Sweeney was posting out of anger and not making a genuine threat, but the judge said that ‘so-called keyboard warriors like her, have to learn to take responsibility for their inflammatory and disgusting language’.
