London – A Scottish court has jailed a man for 60 days for showing a shopworker a video of an Iraqi hostage-beheading on his cellphone.
Subhaan Younis, 23, was sentenced by a court in Glasgow on Wednesday after he was found guilty last month of breaching the peace.
Younis, a Glasgow resident, had downloaded the clip from the Internet and showed it to Charlotte McClay while chatting about the war in Iraq.
The judge said the victim was shocked, upset and frightened by the clip and could be affected “perhaps for the rest of her life”.
“The woman had no idea what she was about to
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view. No reasonable person might have anticipated viewing such dreadful and distressing images.
“I struggle to understand why any decent individual would have images showing the degradation and death of another human being, regardless of their race, political or religious persuasion.”
Defence lawyer Dominic Sellar told the court that his client acknowledged that the images were abhorrent and shocking in the extreme.
Younis had shown McClay the footage during a conversation about the Iraq war after offering to let her see something that would “cause her a sleepless night”, Sellar said.
The shopworker replied “Aye, right”, he said.
The lawyer said his client thought McClay realised she was about to see a video of a beheading. – Sapa-AFP
- This article was originally published on page 0 of The Star on September 29, 2005
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