Muslim who made over 90 phone calls threatening to kill, rape and blow up Jews has been spared jail

BBC News:

A judge said treatment was the best way to protect the public from Riaz Burahee, of Edmonton, north London, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

He was given a three-year community rehabilitation order for committing the greatest number of racially motivated offences by one person.

Burahee, 25, told victims he would rape their children and bomb buildings.

At Wood Green Crown Court on Monday, judge Diane Faber said: "It is plain from the reports that you committed these offences while mentally ill suffering symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, experiencing delusions of persecution by Jewish people."

At an earlier hearing, Burahee admitted 10 offences involving communicating false information about a bomb and racially aggravated harassment.

The defendant described himself as a Muslim with strong religious beliefs who had no links to terrorism.

Photographs of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were later found at Burahee's home.

Whatever happened to the idea of locking up dangerous lunatics to protect the public from harm?