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A 56-year-old man has been jailed for over a year for ripping off a Muslim woman's niqab or the full-face veil during an expletive-ridden racist assault at a shopping centre in the UK following the divisive Brexit vote.
Peter Scotter, 56, of Sunderland, shouted "You are in our country now, you stupid (expletive) Muslim" when he attacked his victim, who was with her young son, at a Sunderland shopping centre last July. Scotter had admitted racially aggravated assault by beating and racially aggravated harassment.
He was handed down a 15-month jail term at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday. The force he used to pull off the garment in the city's Bridges Shopping Centre caused her to fall to the floor. Yet he continued to shout abuse, including, "I'm taking my (expletive) country back" and "it's our Britain, stick by our rules."
The victim had said she did not want him to go to jail when she learned that he was undergoing checks for cancer in his mouth. The court heard he had 70 previous convictions.

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A 56-year-old man has been sentenced to spend one year behind bars for rippin goff a woman's niquab or the full-face veil during an expletive-ridden racist assault at a shopping centre in the UK following the divisive Brexit vote

UK man jailed for 1 year, accused of ripping a woman's burqua

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