A man who wore an anti-police T-shirt in public just hours after the killings of two policewomen has been jailed.


Barry Thew, 39, was spotted in his home town of Radcliffe, Greater
Manchester, wearing a T-shirt which carried handwritten comments of "One
less pig; perfect justice" and "Killacopforfun.com haha".

Less than three-and-a-half hours earlier, Pc Nicola Hughes, 23, and
Fiona Bone, 32, were shot dead in a gun and grenade attack as they
responded to a reported burglary on the Hattersley estate in Mottram,
Greater Manchester.

Thew, of Wolsey Street, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing at
Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court to the public order offence
committed on September 18.

He was sentenced to four months in jail and received an additional
four months after he admitted breaching the terms of a previous
suspended jail term.

Following sentencing, Inspector Bryn Williams, of the Radcliffe
Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: "While officers on the ground were
just learning of and trying to come to terms with the devastating news
that two colleagues had been murdered, Thew thought nothing of going out
in public with a T-shirt daubed with appalling handwritten comments.
"Thankfully the overwhelming response from the public - who have
inundated us with messages of support and condolence - prove that Thew
is the exception and not the rule and our communities were right behind
us at our darkest hour.

"To mock or joke about the tragic events of that morning is morally
reprehensible and Thew has rightly been convicted and sentenced for his
actions."

Yahoo news (Press Association)