A Birmingham man has gone on trial accused of leaving a pig’s head on a Muslim father’s driveway.
Dad-of-six Shafique Rehman said he was “sickened” to find the head after rushing home when he was told his family’s home in Heather Road, Bordesley Green, had been attacked.
Walter Bealby, prosecuting, said the front lounge window had been smashed with a brick and corrosive fluid, possibly paint stripper, had been poured over a Volkswagen car.
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He told Birmingham Crown Court that the head was found close to a white plastic bag which contained defendant Ehtisham Badar’s fingerprints. Mr Bealby told the jury: “It probably does not need me to tell you how offensive it must have been, Mr Rehman being a Muslim, to have a pig’s head left on his drive.”
Badar, 21, of Daniers Road, Bordesley Green, has denied religiously aggravated harassment, two charges of religiously aggravated criminal damage, two of criminal damage and one count of threatening to destroy property.
The head was found when nightshift worker Mr Rehman came home at 3am on October 20 last year.
Mr Bealby said one of Mr Rehman’s daughters had been friends with another young woman who lived down the road.
“It seems the two young ladies had some sort of falling out a couple of years ago and were no longer friends by October last year,” he said.
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Mr Bealby said Badar later told Mr Rehman: “Next time it will be a petrol bomb” as he drew alongside him in a car.
He said Badar was arrested and claimed he had been asleep at the time.
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