Man who burned Quran outside Turkish consulate in London guilty of religiously aggravated public order offence

Hamit Coskun has been found guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court -

The burning of a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London amounted to a religiously aggravated public order offence, a judge has found.

Hamit Coskun, 50, shouted “f*** Islam”, “Islam is religion of terrorism” and “Koran is burning” as he held the flaming Islamic text aloft in Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge, on February 13, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard last week.