The sentencing of a man who sent an offensive message about fundraising hero Captain Sir Tom Moore has been delayed after he was led out of court by a police officer. Joseph Kelly was set to be sentenced at Lanark Sheriff Court.
It related to the "grossly offensive" message he tweeted on February 3 last year that "the only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella buuuuurn" - just one day after the 100-year-old died. Moments before the 36-year-old was set to receive his sentence from Sheriff Adrian Cottam on Wednesday, he entered the court and appeared to refuse to sit down in the public gallery and looked as if he was stretching.
Kelly, of Castlemilk, Glasgow, was then taken out of the court by a police officer. Minutes later his case was called by the clerk but Kelly did not appear. His solicitor Tony Callaghan told the court his client was unable to attend.
