A man who shouted “f*** you Jewish people” at strictly Orthodox worshippers walking to shul on Shabbat and told them he would “wipe them out” has been convicted of two counts of racially or religiously aggravated harassment and two counts using threatening or abusive behaviour to cause alarm or distress.
Glenn Okafor, of Thornlaw Road, West Norwood, south London, was found guilty at Stratford Magistrates Court yesterday. The court heard how on March 4, a Shabbat, Mr Okafor had shouted "f*** you Jewish people" at a group of strictly Orthodox Jews in Stamford Hill, and told them "you lot should go back to your own country".
He then said: "We will sort you out. I have friends. I'll be back tomorrow. We will wipe you out."
In his evidence to the court, Okafor said he had “approached a Jewish man or a man of the Jewish community just to ask them a few questions about the origin of Judaism as it's something I have been looking into."
