Nazi shame of ex- Belmont boy
Posted racist and anti- gay slogans
A schoolboy racist plastered Nazi slogan stickers over Ayr.
Former Belmont Academy pupil Connor McKechnie, 18, posted vile homophobic and xenophobic messages on streets last year. Wearing a shirt under a neat jumper as he stood in the dock, he admitted carrying out the sick propaganda campaign at Ayr Sheriff Court on Monday.
A crossed out rainbow flag, images of Hitler and the phrase ‘ Britain is ours, the rest must go’ were some of the messages on the offending stickers. Hateful slogans of that type are often linked to banned neo- Nazi group National Action. It has been branded a terrorist organisation by the Home Office and members could end up in prison.
McKechnie, of Glendale Crescent, Belmont, will find out his fate next month after his lawyer Peter Lockhart lodged a guilty plea.
Sheriff John Montgomery ordered a background report to be prepared before deciding on a punishment.
McKechnie pled guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm by repeatedly placing a quantity of stickers in public places portraying offensive racist and homophobic messages.
He stuck them on Inverkar Road and Chalmers Road in Castlehill and elsewhere between July 1 and November 1 last year.
His actions were spurred on by prejudices against gay and foreign people according to prosecutors.
It is understood all the stickers have been scrubbed off or painted over by South Ayrshire Council wokers.