A man has been jailed for six monthsafter smearing bacon on the door of a mosque.

Marcus Edwards, 44, was in Gillingham on Sunday August 11, when he recorded the moment he smeared rashers of bacon on a mosque and claimed to people online that he would get away with it as the justice system would do nothing.

At his first appearance at the Magistrates’ court, Edwards was told his offence was in the “same bracket as the current civil unrest” and it was “hard to see how his action could be more distressing to the Muslim community”.