Tory MP guilty of racially aggravated harassment after he told protester to ‘Go back to Bahrain’

A Tory MP called an activist a ‘stupid man’ and told him to ‘go back to Bahrain,’ a court heard. Bob Stewart, 74, abused Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei outside the Foreign Office’s Lancaster House building on 14 December last year while the politician he was attending an event to mark the National Day of Bahrain. Mr Alwadaei told the court that he was there because he had been beaten and tortured in Bahrain during the Arab Spring. He claimed that the Beckenham MP…

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