❓WHAT HAPPENED: Englishman Nathan Poole was sentenced to 30 months in prison for shouting at police and chanting “Who the f**k is Allah?” during a disorderly anti-immigration protest.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Nathan Poole, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), and Judge Richard McConaghy.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The demonstration took place on August 3, 2024, in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, following the mass murder of a number of young girls by a migration-background teenager in Southport.
💬KEY QUOTE: “The main location was the mosque and your specific chants in relation to Allah made it quite clear your involvement was hostility towards Islam.” – Judge Richard McConaghy
🎯IMPACT: Poole’s lengthy prison sentence contrasts sharply with the relatively light punishments handed down to more serious criminals, including sexual predators, and the lack of action against Britons celebrating the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, underscoring the increasingly two-tier nature of British justice.
Englishman Nathan Poole, 32, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a protest that took place in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, on August 3, 2024. The demonstration, following the mass murder of several young girls by a migration-background teenager in Southport, involved around 300 people and saw some clashes with police in the city centre. Poole, who did not participate in any violence, was charged because he was heard shouting at police and chanting, “Who the fuck is Allah?”
Judge Richard McConaghy said Poole had been “abusive and argumentative with police officers,” although he conceded to him that there was “no evidence that you threw a missile or that you were an architect of any of the pushing.”
“But you were seen in different locations. You were being bullish and shouted, ‘Who the f*** is Allah’ at the other group,” the judge complained, adding: “The main location was the mosque and your specific chants in relation to Allah made it quite clear your involvement was hostility towards Islam.”
Poole’s case comes amid growing concerns about how police and courts have handled protests and unrest linked to immigration tensions. Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Conservative Party councillor, was sentenced to a staggering 31 months in prison for posting a message on social media—which she deleted just hours later—calling for mass deportations and saying she would not care if hotels hosting migrants were burned down. In contrast, Sarah Hayes, a British TikTok user, faced no action for celebrating the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and urging her over 200,000 followers to “kill them all, kill them all.”
Notably, criminals convicted of crimes most people regard as very serious often receive far lighter punishments than Poole and Connolly. For instance, asylum seeker Moffat Konofilia, who sexually assaulted a minor while saying he had “never been so close to a white woman” before, received no prison time at all earlier this month.
Such cases have added to ongoing accusations of two-tier justice in Britain. This extends to policing, with a video of a Southport counter-demonstration in 2024 showing officers politely asking a Muslim crowd to deposit their weapons at a nearby mosque to avoid arrest.
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