Raise the Colours founder charged with 14 offences

The laminitis of an activistic radical which has been putting Union Jack and St George's Cross flags connected lampposts has been charged with a drawstring of offences including racially aggravated harassment, threatening behaviour and assault. Ryan Bridge, 45, of Blackwell, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, has been erecting flags successful the Midlands and the southbound of England since past summertime arsenic portion of Raise the Colours. Thames Valley Police said Bridge had been charged with 14 offences from a two-month play successful Oxfordshire earlier this year. He is owed to look astatine Oxford Magistrates' Court connected 3 November. The offences are: - Seven counts of utilizing threatening words oregon behaviour to origin harassment, alarm oregon distress - Three counts of utilizing threatening, abusive oregon insulting words oregon behaviour with intent to origin fearfulness of, oregon provoke, unlawful violence - Two counts of racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm oregon distress - One number of racially aggravated fearfulness of violence - One number of communal assault In July, Oxfordshire County Council was granted a High Court injunction to halt radical placing flags adjacent highways due to the fact that of information concerns, trespass and obstruction. Birmingham City Council has applied for a akin injunction which volition beryllium heard astatine the High Court connected Tuesday.