The man who aggressively harangued former Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth in June has finally been jailed. Though not for that reason…

Majid Freeman is a pro-Palestine activist who filmed himself screaming at Ashworth, sparking others in Leicester to intimidate the MP to the extend he had to “hide” from them in a vicarage. Freeman, who was also centre of the recently elected “This is for Gaza” pro-Palestine MP’s election campaign, has now been sentenced to 22 weeks in jail for his actions during riots in…2022. Convicted under the 1986 Public Disorder Act, the court concluded he attempted to spark “immediate unlawful violence” and was found to have circulated false claims about local Hindus intended to provoke local Muslims. Sentenced two years after the fact…