Man filmed releasing rats on pavement outside Sheffield Grand Mosque

LocalPolitics
17 Jul 2025 • 3:22 PM MYT
The Independent
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  • CCTV footage shows Edmund Fowler, 66, releasing rats outside Sheffield Grand Mosque on Grimesthorpe Road.
  • Fowler repeated this act on three further occasions between May and June, as part of a series of racially motivated hate crimes.
  • He pleaded guilty to four counts of racially aggravated harassment at Sheffield Magistrates' Court.
  • On 16 July, Fowler was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months, and banned from approaching any mosque for 18 months.
  • Watch the video in full above.

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