A MAN who hurled anti-Semitic abuse and gas canisters at a Jewish man in Tottenham has been jailed.
Patrick Joseph Delaney, 19, of Coggesball Road, Braintree, Essex was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment at Wood Green Crown Court on February 2 after pleading guilty to a religiously aggravated public order offence.
At around 7.30pm on January 6, 2016, a 31-year-old Jewish man, wearing Jewish attire, was walking through a car park at Tottenham Hale Retail Park.
A suspect in a van shouted anti-semitic abuse at him, including references to Adolf Hitler, and threw a number of small gas canisters at him.
Three other people –including a mother and her son – reported being subject to similar abuse.
One of the victims called police and provided the vehicle’s registration number.
Officers on patrol located the vehicle a short time later and obtained the details of the people in the car, including Delaney.
Delaney and two other men attended Wood Green Police Station on January 8, 2016, and were arrested on suspicion of a religiously aggravated public order offence and interviewed.
The men were subsequently charged.
The case against the two co-defendants charged in relation to this incident was subsequently dismissed.
DC Warren Ingrey of Haringey CID said: “This was a disgusting, unprovoked verbal attack on members of the public who were targeted because of their religious beliefs and the way they looked.
"Following this incident they were left feeling shaken and very vulnerable.
"This behaviour will not be tolerated by the Metropolitan Police Service and we always thoroughly investigate these types of incidents to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice.”
