Racist jailed for carving swastikas into walls at Westfield Stratford with a knife
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A racist has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for carving swastikas into the walls of Westfield shopping centre with a knife and abusing police officers.
Andy Koseda, 54, of no fixed address, was jailed at Snaresbrook Crown Court today, May 5, for multiple knife and racial harassment offences
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When police tried to arrest him, he threatened the officers with the knife and racially abused them.
He was charged with threatening a person with a knife in a public place, racially aggravated harassment, criminal damage, possession of a knife and using threatening words to cause harassment.
Koseda pleaded guilty to all counts at an earlier hearing and was sentenced today.