(BBC) A man who used a fake name to send “vile” racist messages on a messaging app with thousands of members to provoke violence has been jailed for two years and four months.
The court heard Ehsan Hussain, himself Pakistani, used the name Chris Nolan on a Telegram chat with nearly 12,500 members called Southport Wake Up.
The 25-year-old hoped to encourage violence in the Alum Rock and Bordesley Green areas of Birmingham.
The judge said Hussain wanted to incite members of the group to attend areas of the city with a large Muslim population where they “would be met with violence themselves.”
