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May 4, 2014
Two female football fans ripped up pages from the Koran during a match before throwing them in the air ‘like confetti’ while chanting racist songs about Muslims, a court heard.
Middlesbrough FC supporters Julie Phillips, 50, and Gemma Parkin, 18, have been found guilty of using religiously aggravated threatening or insulting behaviour while watching their team’s away fixture against Birmingham City on December 7 last year.
Magistrates heard that 25 minutes into the second half, Philips pulled a copy of the Muslim holy book from her handbag and started ripping out the pages.
She then handed them out to other fans sitting in the stands at St Andrew’s stadium who began throwing the torn pages into the air.
Philips and Parkin also joined in with anti-Islamic chants about killing Muslims with a bayonet while others pretended to set the book on fire, the court heard.
The pair were convicted at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court today following a one-day trial.
During the trial, prosecutor Amar Sanghara told the court: ‘On that date Birmingham City Football Club were playing home against Middlesbrough.
‘There was a crowd of 13,454 and 655 were Middlesbrough fans who were standing in the stand behind the goal.
‘A club steward Matthew Corne was stood in the Gill Merrick stand. While there he observed fans ripping pages from a book.
‘They were also chanting words like “Muslim”, “Koran” and “bayonet”.
‘Mr Cornes asked them what they were doing and asked the control to get the CCTV cameras to monitor them.
‘The group were followed from the ground and then intercepted by the police.
‘Mrs Phillips was interviewed on January 17 by police when she admitted tearing up the Koran but said she had been handed the book and didn’t know what it was.’
The court heard the pair were among a group of around 20 fans who were chanting racist songs during the Championship league match, which went on to finish 2-2.
Giving evidence Matthew Cornes, who was part of the security response team at the game, said:
‘They were passing pages of the book around and tore the book up.
‘They were throwing them up in the air like confetti.
‘There was shouting going on and singing, I don’t know the words but it was about the Koran and they mentioned Muslims as well.
‘I had never heard chanting like that before.’
