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3:30 PM May 14, 2021
Redbridge Equalities and Community Council has put out a statement condemning the May 4 attack on worshippers outside the Ilford Islamic Centre where they were hit with eggs and stones.
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Redbridge Equalities and Community Council (RECC) has condemned an attack outside an Ilford mosque where worshippers were hit with eggs and stones.
The group, which has been promoting equality and challenging discrimination for more than 50 years, said it was with mounting horror that it learned of the attack which happened outside the Ilford Islamic Centre at around 11pm on Tuesday, May 4.
In the statement RECC said: It was with mounting horror that the RECC learnt that worshippers at the Ilford Islamic centre were pelted with stones and eggs following prayers on May 4.
By Lewis Berrill @LewisBerrill Chief reporter - east London and west Essex
Former East Area Command Unit officer Syed Ali was arrested at Ilford Police Station. Photos: Google Maps/Met Police A former police sergeant has been sentenced for harassment after engaging in ‘unwanted and inappropriate contact’ with a witness. Syed Ali, formerly attached to the East Area Command Unit which polices Redbridge, harassed a female member of the public between May and July 2020. The 46-year-old came into contact with the woman while working for Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) in 2015. In May 2020, two years after transferring to East Area Command Unit, Ali began to engage in unwanted and inappropriate contact with the same witness by messaging her on his work phone.
By Press Association 2021
Syed Ali
A “sex pest” police officer bombarded a woman he fancied with hundreds of unwanted WhatsApp messages, years after they last spoke when she reported a crime, a court has heard.
Married Sergeant Syed Ali sent nearly 500 messages to the woman during a 10-week period from May last year, instigating contact with her for the first time in five years before sending her a stream of texts and a picture of a topless Asian female.
The woman initially did not recognise the 46-year-old defendant, from Dagenham, east London, but told him to stop messaging her once she discovered his identity as the Metropolitan counter-terrorism police officer she had previously met as a witness.
Ex-Met Police sergeant sentenced for sex messages to woman
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image captionSyed Ali pleaded guilty to one count of harassment without violence
A former police sergeant bombarded a woman with hundreds of messages years after they had last spoke when she reported a crime, a court has heard.
Syed Ali sent nearly 500 messages and images of a sexual nature to the woman between May and July last year.
The 46-year-old, from Dagenham, east London, pleaded guilty to one count of harassment without violence.
He was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates Court to six weeks imprisonment, suspended for 18 months.
The court was told Ali sent messages to the woman over a 10-week period from May 2020, five years after they had last spoken.