Hamit Coskun’s conviction for a religiously aggravated offence was quashed on appeal but is back in the High Court. The United States is taking an interest
Burning books in central London is not an “intrinsic” public disorder, the High Court was told during an appeal for a man who burnt a Quran outside the Turkish embassy.
Hamit Coskun was found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence last June, after shouting “f*** Islam” and holding the flaming Islamic text aloft during a protest in Knightsbridge, on February 13 last year.
