A shameless Muslim extremist who burned a poppy on Armistice Day today boasted that would wear his £50 as 'a badge on my shoulder'.Emdadur Choudhury , 26, who was convicted at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court of a public order offence, also claimed the charge levelled against him was 'ridiculous'.
Choudhury, of Spitalfields, East London, was caught on camera unfurling several large plastic poppies on the ground before burning them at the end of the two-minute silence to honour the war dead.
He was convicted of 'using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour within hearing or sight of a person likely to have been caused harassment, alarm or distress' by District Judge Howard Riddle, following a one-day trial last month.
His fellow defendant, Mohammad Haque, 30, of Bethnal Green, was found not guilty of the same public order offence.
Neither defendant appeared at the court, where Choudhury was ordered to pay the money, alongside a £15 victim surcharge. The maximum fine he could have received was £1,000.
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