A self-styled yellow vest activist has admitted harassing the remain-supporting MP Anna Soubry and racially abusing a police officer in a last-minute change of plea in court. But at Westminster magistrates court on Friday, Goddard, of Timperley in Altrincham, changed his pleas to guilty. His co-defendant, Brian Phillips, 55, of Erith in south-east London, also changed his plea to guilty on a charge of harassment without violence. I have developed a mechanism for cutting off large parts of my emotions.”The guilty plea followed a truncated and occasionally chaotic session in court. Goddard has previously argued that all Muslims should be removed from the UK, saying he wanted to “ban Islam from the west”.

Source: The Guardian July 19, 2019 15:00 UTC