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A Tory MP has been found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence, after telling an activist to "go back to Bahrain"
Bob Stewart got into a row with the campaigner after he accused the MP of "selling himself" to the Bahraini government, outside the Foreign Office’s Lancaster House in Westminster.
The backbencher, who became an MP in 2010, insisted “I am not a racist”, when he appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today, Friday, November 3.
However, the Beckenham MP was found guilty and fined and ordered to pay additional legal costs. Mr Stewart, 74, said he had “defending minorities and people of different colours”, and he was "deeply hurt" by the allegations, reports the Mirror.
The court heard he told Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei: "You're taking money off my country, go away!", during the confrontation last December. Mr Stewart had flights, accommodation and meals worth £5,349 paid for by the Bahrain ministry of foreign affairs during a four-day trip to the country last November, Parliamentary records revealed.
Mr Stewart yelled at Mr Alwadaei: "Go away, I hate you. You make a lot of fuss. Go back to Bahrain." In a video played to the court, he also said: "Now shut up you stupid man."
Discussing the suggestion he was racist, Mr Stewart told the court: "That's absurd, it's totally unfair, my life has been, I don't want to say destroyed, but I am deeply hurt at having to appear in a court like this.... I am not a racist.
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"He was saying that I was corrupt and that I had taken money. My honour was at stake in front of a large number of ambassadors. It upset me and I thought it was extremely offensive."
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