Conspiracy theorist faces retrial over bizarre graffiti campaign

A conspiracy theorist who wrote ‘Jews and gays are grey aliens’ in a bizarre graffiti campaign is facing a retrial for stirring up racial hatred. Nicholas Lalchan, 49, used a black marker pen to deface 17 bus stops across northwest London, causing £100 worth of damage each time, between February and July 2019. Canadian Lalchan admitted causing criminal damage but denied that the offence was racially or religiously aggravated. He wrote phrases including ‘Jews and gays are grey aliens,’ in…