A 21-year-old man was sentenced on Friday to a £100 fine (about 122 dollars) for having thrown an egg against King Charles III of England in December, during a displacement that he considered “in bad taste”.
Harry Spartacus May, charged with disorderly conductpleaded guilty to the charges against him before the Westminster Court in London.
During the hearing, the prosecutor stated that the defendant explained his act to the policemen who had detained and interrogated him, specifying that The monarch’s visit to the “poor city” of Luton, north London, on December 6, was “in bad taste”.
“You targeted someone. It doesn’t matter what their motives are,” the judge replied.
At the hearing, the young man – who wore glasses and a navy blue jacket – did not show any particular emotion during the reading of the facts with which he was accused.
According to his lawyer, He “deeply regrets” his gesture.
In addition to the fine, Harry May will have to pay £85 ($103) in court costs.
During this visit to Luton, Charles III met with city officials, charitable organizations and visited a new Sikh temple.
In early November, a 23-year-old man had already been arrested in York, in the north of England, after throwing eggs at the new sovereign while he greeted the citizenson foot, in the center of the city in the company of his second wife Camila Parker Bowles.
Charged with “threatening behaviour”, he is due to appear in York court on January 20.
“This country was built on the blood of slaves”, he would have shouted before being detained by several policemen, at a time when the United Kingdom it increasingly confronts its slave-owning and colonialist past.
The suspect was released on bail. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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