(BBC) Three teenagers who spray-painted a war memorial with “Free Palestine” graffiti have been sentenced.
Adeem Ahmed and Amaan Tariq, both 18, and a 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were handed community orders for vandalising Rochdale Cenotaph.
They targeted the monument on 7 November, and police had to place a guard there ahead of Remembrance Day.
District Judge Joanne Hirst told the teenagers the “desecration” of the cenotaph was a “very serious offence.”
Ahmed and Tariq, both of Rochdale, and the 17-year-old had pleaded guilty to criminal damage.
