A court in the English town of Leicester has found Stephen Ard guilty of attacking Rehana Sidat by pulling her niqab off.

Ard escaped jail after a wrote a letter explaining how ashamed and embarrassed he was about his behaviour.

The assailant pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated assault. He was handed down a suspended jail sentence, ordered to pay £1000 compensation and carry out 150 hours of community service:

“A thug who ripped off a Muslim woman’s headscarf as she passed him in the street says he’s ‘ashamed’ of what he did.

Stephen Ard was handed a 16-week jail sentence, suspended for a year, after he admitted a charge of religiously aggravated assault.

Leicester magistrates also ordered him to pay his victim £1,000 compensation after hearing he was drunk at the time of the incident….

…Ard, 29, walked free after writing a letter of apology to the court. He said he felt ‘ashamed and embarrassed’ by his behaviour.” {Source: Daily Mail}

I wonder  how much impact the court appearance and the prospect of being jailed had on his public contrition?

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