2 charged after rape trial demo

THE leaders of far-Right political group Britain First have been charged after protesting outside the trial of four Afghan asylum seekers accused of gang raping a teenager.

Paul Golding, 35, and his deputy Jayda Fransen, 31, allegedly handed out leaflets and shared videos about the trial at Canterbury Crown Court in May. The four Afghans were eventually found guilty of raping the 16-year-old girl in a flat above a kebab shop in Ramsgate, Kent.

Golding and Fransen were arrested by Kent Police in May and then re-arrested three months later. Yesterday Fransen was charged with four counts of causing religiously aggravated harassment, and Golding three counts. Both have been bailed to appear before Medway magistrates on October 17.

The maximum penalty on conviction for religiously aggravated harassment is two years’ imprisonment.