A tycoon's daughter has sold her luxury home after being repeatedly targeted in firebomb and graffiti attacks. Jennifer McLeish put her home in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, on the market earlier this year and has now sold it for £625,000.
23.04.2024 - 11:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Three teenagers have been sentenced for criminal damage after Rochdale Cenotaph was graffitied with the words 'free Palestine'.
The words were daubed on the war memorial in the town centre on November 7 last year, just a day after a separate incident in which two other teenagers damaged poppy wreaths while shouting anti-Semitic language. Both incidents led to police guarding the memorial ahead of Remembrance Day.
At the time, Rochdale Borough Council described the graffiti as 'totally unacceptable' while Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said it was 'disgraceful vandalism'. Local residents said it was 'disrespecting those who had died'.
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Now, Adeem Ahmed and Amaan Tariq, both 18, and a 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have been sentenced for criminal damage in relation to the incident. The teenagers were given six-month referral orders - a community-based sentence which is overseen by a youth offender panel.
Ahmed, of Queensway, Rochdale, Tariq, of Convent Grove, Rochdale, and the 17-year-old pleaded guilty to criminal damage but were due to face trial this month after each denied the damage was racially aggravated. The Crown Prosecution Service later discontinued the trial 'on evidential grounds'.
Earlier this month, they were sentenced to the referral orders and also told to pay £140 in compensation, £85 court costs and a £26 victim surcharge. Tariq and the youth also pleaded guilty to the theft of spray cans and paint brushes from B&M Bargains in Rochdale.
The defendants' parents attended the hearing last November when pleas were entered at Manchester Magistrates' Court.
A tycoon's daughter has sold her luxury home after being repeatedly targeted in firebomb and graffiti attacks. Jennifer McLeish put her home in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, on the market earlier this year and has now sold it for £625,000.
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