Koran burner beats prosecuters again

Prosecutors have failed to overturn the acquittal of a man who set fire to a copy of the Koran outside London’s Turkish embassy. Hamit Coskun, 51, was convicted of religiously aggravated public order after holding a flaming copy of the Islamic text aloft and shouting ‘f*** Islam.’ But he won an appeal against the conviction, which was overturned by Mr Justice Bennathan at Southwark Crown Court last October. The judge said: The right to freedom of expression, if it is…

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