BREAKING: He's been jailed for 28 days
John Murphy, 31, admitted a charge of assault for egging the Labour leader while yelling ‘respect the vote’ as the MP was visiting a mosque in his Islington North constituency on March 3.
She acknowledged the ‘current climate’ of heightened fears for MPs as she jailed Murphy for the ‘aggressive’ hit. Christie said: ‘Suddenly, he felt a strike to the right side of his forehead and then realised someone had reached over his right shoulder and struck him.Jeremy Corbyn was attacked while at the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, on the 10th annual Visit My Mosque Day
‘I feel these kinds of attacks drive a wedge between elected representatives and those who elected them in the first place. We are now reviewing and increasing my security protection.’
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