Two jailed over mosque bacon attack

Two people who threw bacon and wrapped it around door handles at a mosque in Scotland have been sent to prison.

Douglas Cruikshank, 39, and Chelsea Lambie, 18, were convicted over the attack at Edinburgh's Central Mosque in January last year.

The consumption of pork is forbidden in Islam.

A court in Scotland's capital heard the pair were associated with the far-right Scottish Defence League.

Cruikshank, of Galashiels in southern Scotland, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and Lambie, from Paisley near Glasgow, was ordered to spend 12 months in an institute for young offenders.

They had both been convicted of threatening and abusive behaviour.

A third man, 25-year-old Wayne Stilwel from Gorebridge near Edinburgh, was sentenced to 10 months in prison in September over the attack.

"The Muslim community are a valued and integral part of Scottish society and there is no place for such attacks in modern Scotland," said state prosecutor John Logue after the sentencing.