Two men who terrorized Jewish women and children with a speeding car while one of them screamed threats to kill Jews have been convicted of intentional harassment.
Aaron Hanson, 20, from Stalybridge in Tameside, near Manchester, pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court on Monday after two witnesses came forward to give evidence. He and Liam Martin, 21, also of Stalybridge, were in one of four cars seen driving erratically in Broughton Park, north Manchester, last March. After antisemitic abuse was shouted, witnesses followed the cars and alerted a traffic police officer who gave chase and arrested the two men.
Hanson pleaded guilty to one count of racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress, which carries a maximum prison sentence of two years. He was heard shouting: “We are going to f–k up all the Jews,” and “you fucking Jews we are going to kill you all.”
Martin pleaded guilty to a lesser public order offence and risks six months imprisonment.
