Bacon mosque assault man dead

Kevin Crehan is dead – just months after he and three accomplices left raw meat sandwiches outside the Jamia Mosque in the Totterdown area of Bristol. The four tied bacon to the door handles of the mosque and tied a St George’s flag with the slogan “no mosques” inscribed upon it to the fence outside the building. They were also found to have shouted racial abuse at a worshipper.

The man’s body was found in his cell in HMP Bristol, where he was serving a one year prison sentence for the racist attack, two days after Christmas.

Crehan had admitted the offence in court, as did his accomplices Alison Bennett (46), Mark Bennett (48) and Angelina Swales (31). The judge described their actions as “an attack on England”. As well as prison sentences, the four were banned from going within 330ft of any mosque in England or Wales for ten years.

The Prison Service has confirmed that the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will investigate the death.

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