Man Jailed for Beheading Video, Judge Bewildered
Charles Johnson
Wed Sep 28, 2005 at 7:41 am PDT • Views: 164
Beheading video man sent to jail. (Hat tip: LGF News.)
A man who used his mobile phone to replay footage of a beheading in Iraq to a hotel shop worker has been jailed for 60 days.
Subhaan Younis, 23, played the images to shocked Charlotte McClay last September at a hotel in Glasgow.
Sentencing him at the city’s district court, the stipendiary magistrate said he could not understand why Younis had the images on his phone. Euan Edment said jail was a fitting penalty for the breach of the peace.
The magistrate told Younis: “I struggle to understand why you had images on your phone entailing the death and degradation of another human being, regardless of their religion or race.”
Quite a conundrum, indeed! Why would anyone want to collect videos of horrific murders? Out of the blue, the magistrate mentions religion. Hmm. Could that be a clue?
Naahhh.
Frank says: