KB-2023-003636 - [2025] EWHC 2043 (KB)

The claimant travelled to Leicester on 18 September 2022, arriving at about lunchtime. A video shows the claimant with Mr Dawah. The claimant asks Mr Dawah if CVB could be brought so he could tell them what was going on. He then made his way to a group of Muslim men, many wearing hoods and masks, who were facing a line of police and shouting, with chants and responses. Somebody (possibly either Mr Dawah or the claimant) says “I will tell them to stop causing trouble” and (repeatedly) shouts “brothers, move back”. The claimant has his back to the police, and is facing the Muslim men, and is apparently seeking to usher them back. Mr Dawah says, “if they come to us, then basically we will fight them, but right now they are not here; we need to be clever.” Somebody says, “you guys are from London, why are you lot calling the shots here.” The claimant gives a speech in which he said that they were seeing violence “from the Hindutva in this country” which was inspired by a fascist ideology which “had its inspirations from the same place as Adolf Hitler had his inspirations.” He said that there was a battle going on, involving “violent vegetarians”. Later, Mr Dawah is filmed talking to a man who complains about corruption within politics and the police (who he said were sponsored by a Hindu charity) such that “of course the brothers are going to take up arms”.

The claimant posted an image of himself on Instagram, walking down the street with a group of masked men behind him, with the caption “Muslim patrol in Leicester.”

The claimant made a speech to a large group of men, the vast majority wearing hoods and/or baseball caps and/or masks and/or balaclavas. One man was wearing a white skull face mask. The claimant said:

“Who has seen the Hindutva today?

[Man responds: “They are cowards”].

That’s my question, because when I was online on Twitter or on social media, I’m seeing them getting brave. Seeing these people here getting brave. How comes today it was like pin drop silence? How come today didn’t see them. How comes today when it’s not one person or two people walking the street, yeah, when it’s one or two Muslims walking in the street, when it’s a vulnerable adult, when it’s someone running home yeah, how comes now, yeah, how comes you’re not here now?

[Man responds: “tell you why, tell you why, because they fear us when they’re near us”]

Hold on, brother, let me tell you why it is, yeah, because deep down, yeah, they know we got the truth, bruv. Deep down. Let me tell you something, let me tell you something, all due respect, actually no due respect, yeah if they believe in reincarnation, yeah, what a humiliation and pathetic thing for them to be reincarnated into some pathetic weak cowardly people like that. I’d rather be an animal; I’d rather be reincarnated as a grasshopper bruv. That’s the truth. So how comes now in Leicester, yeah, the Hindutva are coming out, yeah, and you’re trying to act like gangsters. You’re trying to act like gangsters. Come on man, you’re not about that life. Don’t ever, I’m saying this, I’m saying this directly to all the so-called Hindutva wannabe gangsters. Don’t ever come out like that again, do you understand?

[Man responds: “no chance”]

Are they gonna come out like that again?

[Man responds: “never”]

Are they gonna come out like that again? Because if they do come out, are we gonna be here? Yes or no?

[Man responds: “yes”]

[Man shouts “Takbir”. The crowd respond “Allahu Akbar”. This is then repeated twice].”

On 19 September 2022, the claimant uploaded a video of this speech to his YouTube channel. It bore the title “Muslim response to Fascist Hindutva Thugs in Leicester.”