Family targeted by racist thug

Lout who hurled vile abuse at Jewish couple jailed

- ANDREW BARDSLEY

A JEWISH family were targeted with vile abuse by a right-wing extremist at a car boot sale.

Robert Taylor, from Bolton, approached a husband who was with his wife and their two children and repeatedly said 'gas. The abuse has made them question whether they still want to live in this country.

Taylor also distributed sickening antiSemitic abuse on posters around his home town, and handed out extremist leaflets at the same car boot sale a year earlier. The 42-year-old has been jailed for four years after police discovered he had been spreading racist, homophobic and anti-Semetic material on Telegram and video sharing platforms over a near two year period.

Manchester Crown Court was told that he had initially been motivated by 'intellectual curiosity.