Wigan man jailed for posting anti-Semitic material

A man from Wigan has been jailed for posting racist and anti-Semitic material on social media.

Stuart Sutton has been jailed on five counts of publishing or distributing written material likely to stir up racial hatred, contrary to Section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986.

Following an investigation by Counter Terror Policing North West (CTPNW), Sutton was sentenced to two years in prison, which was reduced to 16 months due to an early guilty plea.

He was arrested in February after a search warrant was executed at his home.

Amanda Bomsztyk, Northern Regional Director of the Community Security Trust (CST), said: “CST welcomes this outcome which follows our alerting CTPNW to Sutton’s incitement just over a year ago.

"It is important that such extreme Jew-hatred and racism leads to arrest and imprisonment.”

Detective Superintendent Andy Meeks, of the CTPNW Investigation Department, said: "We would always encourage people to report acts of racial hatred, whether that's in person or online, and this can be done via the police or at www.gov.uk/ACT."

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