Man’s conviction for burning Koran should have been upheld, High Court told

Hamit Coskun arrives at the Royal Courts Of Justice in London on Tuesday (Ben Whitley/PA) - (PA Wire)

Burning a religious text “is in itself disorderly” and should have led to a man’s conviction for burning a Koran being upheld, the High Court has been told.

Hamit Coskun was convicted last June of a religiously aggravated public order offence after he held a flaming copy of the Islamic text aloft and shouted “f*** Islam” outside the Turkish embassy on February 13 last year.