Stoke EDL Mosque Arsonists Get 10 Years

In December 2011, two men were sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of setting fire to a mosque in Stoke-on-Trent. One was a serving British Army soldier at the time of the arson attack, and told the court he was a member of both the English Defence League (EDL) and the British National Party (BNP).

The pair started a fire on the ground floor of the mosque and ran a gas pipe into the building from a nearby gas meter in a bid to spark an explosion at the mosque, which suffered about £50,000 damage as a result of the fire.

A few days before the arson attack during an EDL march in Preston, EDL members can be seen chanting about the burning mosques.

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