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https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/07/man-deliberately-drove-muslims-outside-mosque-jailed-five-years-8843343/Published by: METRO NEWS on 6 Mar 2019
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A man who shouted racist abuse before deliberately driving at worshippers who were leaving a mosque has been jailed. Martin Stokes, 25, was sentenced to five years behind bars for the late-night attack in September last year at the Al Hussaini Association Muslim community centre in north-westLondon in which three people were injured, police said.
Stokes, from Wembley, was also banned from driving for seven-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and a religiously aggravated offence, the Metropolitan Police said.
Stokes had been drinking and smoking with others while parked up in the car near the mosque in Cricklewood where a private event was taking place, the force said.
The group, who were said to be causing a disturbance, were asked to move on by the event’s stewards but instead Stokes shouted racist abuse before deliberately driving his car into a group of people as they left the mosque at around half-past [...]
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