A jury’s decision to clear a suspended Labour councillor of encouraging violent disorder after he called for far-right activists’ throats to be cut cannot be compared to the case of Lucy Connolly, lawyers have claimed.
Ricky Jones, 58, faced trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court after he described far-right activists as “disgusting Nazi fascists” in a speech at an anti-racism rally last year, in the wake of the Southport murders.
