r/Portsmouth • u/PracticeSea7628 • 7d ago
Callum Mcinally of waverly road has been arrested and charged with the racially motivated attack on defenseless women and children outside jami mosque.
⚠️ Officers investigating a racist attack in Portsmouth have charged a man.
Police were called to a report that at around 9:30pm on Sunday 31 August, a man was being verbally abusive to a small group of men, women and children outside of the Jami Mosque on Victoria Road North.
It was reported that the man had then punched one man from the group, before pulling out a knife and behaving aggressively towards two of the men. A video of the incident has since gone viral.
Callum Mcinally, 29, of Waverley Road in Southsea, has been charged with the following:
• Racially / religiously aggravated common assault by beating • Assault by beating • Racially / religiously aggravated intentional harassment / alarm / distress • Threaten a person with a blade / sharply pointed article in a public place
He has been remanded into custody to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates Court today (Tuesday 2 September).
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u/thatbadassgirl 7d ago
I went to primary school with this guy - seems he hasn't changed much.
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u/Green-Tradition9172 6d ago
The way his sweater is nonchalantly draped over his shoulders does indicate a certain 'je ne sais quoi'. Was the younger version of himself as equally stylish or did this sense develop with maturity?
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u/4reddishwhitelorries 5d ago
I went to the same school and I concur. He’s had the same beard since Year2
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u/Unlikely_Ad_1825 5d ago
Im sure hes changed since primary school….
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u/whiteknightmeta 4d ago
Probably taller and looks older now. I think that's how ageing works anyway.
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u/znidz 7d ago
If we're supporting a climate of racial hatred, this is the consequence of it.
A lot of people feel as if they have tacit approval to behave like this as the streets are full of flags and all the social media comments are hostile to immigration.
I'm willing to bet that this lad isn't the sharpest tool and there are a lot more like him around.
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u/GazelleDelicious3135 7d ago
This. It’s all harmless patriotism until some people takes it too far…we all know this flag shagging is based on thinly veiled racism and this is the result. It will only get worse. We are only a few years from a full blown Kristallnacht. Strap in folks!
The only way to beat these people is politically. They are not our enemy, but our political opponents. They will be peaceful when their lives get better, the only way is through political reform (ironically not via reform party).
We are all struggling and the working class the most. The rich, the media and politicians in power are the ones that want to conserve the current state of the world to keep money and power. The sad thing is, these people hanging flags on lamp posts think they are displaying love for this country and its people. Instead they are displaying loyalty to the above, the people in this world who want to stamp you into the mud while they sit in their castles.
The world is only going to become worse, and even more helpless people are going to become displaced. We need to show empathy. Just a shred of empathy.
We have a trillion things more in common with those people on the boats than the people in the private jets. Always remember that. Solidarity.
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u/RiverZozz 7d ago
Almost all of us are one bad year away from desperate poverty. Basically none of us are one good year away from being a billionaire.
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u/CalligrapherOk4612 6d ago
Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ay61dbTVltI
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u/Sebthemediocreartist 6d ago
Reminds me of https://youtu.be/O7VWzaH_S4Y?si=tjfNBRzJbJLu9Ab8
"Always three months to the gutter, never three months to the crown"3
u/YxngSosa 4d ago
This is what people need to understand. All this race shit is perpetuated to divide us. Keep us distracted from the real enemy, which is the rich and elites in power. People that don’t understand this but instead blame each other are just fucking idiots. Also, all that flag shit? No matter how much these people try to say its “patriotism” its so obvious they’re just racist lol. And the argument is always “its just a flag in its own country how can that be harmful” well it’s not inherently harmful, so maybe they need to reflect on how they represent their nation that its own flag has become a far right symbol of racism, hate and division.
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u/YxngSosa 4d ago
You think deliveroo workers are the issue and not the government??🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Idiot
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u/UnholyDoughnuts 4d ago
I'm starting to think we should need a license to use or rather post on social media and people like you are the reason why.
Clueless doesn't cut it and its about time we held idiots accountable. That or bring back public shaming.
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u/KAPH86 7d ago
I was in Eastney today and some guy was shouting abuse at an Asian shop owner because the cash point outside his shop wasn't working. 'Yeah I bet you'll still keep the money I couldn't take out'... erm...
Unfortunately morons see what's on the news and feel emboldened and we end up with shit like this.
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u/Illustrious_Study_30 6d ago
I saw someone at Home Bargains shouting at a black guy a couple of weeks ago because he didn't move quickly enough. She yelled ' You make me racist because of the way you act'. She berated him for at least five minutes, loudly , about the colour of his skin. I reported racial abuse and asked the guard to call the police, at which point some grunt and her barely literate daughter decided to tell me it wasn't racial abuse because he brought it on himself and that I was a c*** for speaking up. That's what we're dealing with here in Pompey.
Apparently we must allow this abuse to continue.
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u/Deeford82 4d ago
Epidemic? You must get your news from GB news or Britain first. Epidemic, you dont know the fucking word.
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u/Heavy_Foot_6848 4d ago
Source: Sky News https://share.google/g4YOtaOSfsovbVr4O
There's one. Now do some leg work and find out for yourself.
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u/DarkAngelAz 7d ago
You have to remember how dumb the average voter is and then think half of them are dumber than that.
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u/Beneficial_Opening13 3d ago
They are stupid and super impressionable. I’ve watched lives on TikTok where a guy invites them on to ask why they’re Tommy supporters or Reform voters. They never have an actual reason; it’s always “stop the boats, immigration, hotels, save our country.” It’s never about helping their communities in simple ways or policies or reform. They are MAGA supporter of britian just alot dumber. I watched a live, a woman called Dawn came on&said, “You’re always complaining, (shaming us)Tommy/Reform voters because we want to “protect our country”. But you’re being racist to us by calling us fat and thick-headed. That’s racist, you can’t say that, that’s racist.” The whole live bursted out laughing.
It made me realise these are the average supporters. people who aren’t critical thinkers and just repeat whatever they see on TV or social media. While they’re out protesting and harassing innocent people, they could be at the job centre trying to get a job to pay their bills. Instead, they spend all day from morning to night holding up terrible signs and sharing one brain cell between them. .
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u/PersistentBadger 7d ago
The news cycle often results in spikes in violence against a segment of the population. I don't know if people are really easily led, or if they see it being in the news as tacit permission. Maybe both.
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u/kgusfyxh 3d ago
Easily led. Our education system has omitted critical thinking for decades. People find it very difficult to even recognise bias in statements let alone understand one statement from various perspectives or have a firm enough grasp of statistics to spot manipulation when it’s plain and obvious. The general vein of this thread is ‘it’s the elites’ and this is evidence of that; governments pushing formulaic syllabi designed to teach regurgitation rather than critical thought keeps people from properly learning and gaining independent thought. Plenty of people with a university degree who can’t demonstrate basic logic or critical thinking is a major issue for us in this country.
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u/gazzas89 6d ago
Said thia on another reddit page, the question was why are people more mean nowadays. Imo, its social media pushing hate amd making people think they can say and do what they want as very few platforms actually punish them
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u/ze7vigga 4d ago
The comments section for anything to do with people who aren’t white in the uk are filled with racist cretins these days. It’s sad.
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u/ShanghaiGoat 3d ago
My nephew was racially abused and told to go back to his own country last weekend and attacked. He’s white and English and this occurred in his own home town, Brighton. Who knows why he was racially abused, but I suspect it’s just become normal for these idiots to use this type of abuse. For info, he was physically attacked by the man (my nephew is 19), but knocked the idiot out with one punch. The police were called and the racist fool was arrested while my nephew was congratulated and went home without any more issues.
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u/Kaleidoscope_75 3d ago
Spot on. We all know those flags are more likely to do with racism than patriotism. The sad thing is they constantly deny it.
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u/Undrcovrcloakndaggr 2d ago
"Britain First" was what the murderer of Jo Cox shouted when he assassinated her. We already know exactly where this ends and the media are complicit. Constantly platforming that fraudulent ar*se-hole Farage all the time and stoking division.
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u/Heavy_Foot_6848 4d ago
Read the quran.
It INSTRUCTS muslims to be hostile to any non muslims so its a bit rich complaining about them being treated with hostility...
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u/znidz 4d ago
There's a lot of shit in a lot of books.
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u/Heavy_Foot_6848 4d ago
But we arent talking about dostoevsky novels.
We're talking about the quran.
Its all in there, but you people prefer ignorance.
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u/Important_Baby_9816 3d ago
Hostile to illegal immigration* next you will be saying all the men in the boats are a net positive to the country
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u/znidz 3d ago edited 2d ago
Not really mate none of those blokes can barely form a coherent sentence. Charitable of you to think they differentiate.
Asylum seekers aren't "illegal".
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u/Important_Baby_9816 2d ago
Yeah, it just seems like you don’t like the working class, mate. To say they can’t form a coherent sentence is a bit much—especially when half the Labour MPs struggle to form one themselves.
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u/-Sna 7d ago
I would love to know what he thinks they did to warrant him acting like this.
The far right love to shout about how delicate and fragile normal people are, but they're the ones who go around waving knives at people for absolutely no reason but their ideology of hate told them to.
Hope he learns about how to get involved in society and finds a good community to belong to rather than lashing out for reasons he doesn't understand.
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u/c0tch 7d ago
The most touching moment is after he threw the knife (I believe) they did not seek vengeance they consoled the guy who was clearly not right in the head.
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u/RiverZozz 7d ago edited 7d ago
I was genuinely astounded by the one guy who clearly wanted to just talk him down, even reaching out to him and gently placing a hand on his back. And all the gammons love to sarcastically comment “religion of peace” on every bit of media about Muslims.
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u/JC392 6d ago
The Fratton area is where I feel safest at night, and it's because you can be sure that members of the largely Muslim population won't be alcoholics or violent drug addicts like so many in this city are these days.
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u/BackToThePooture 6d ago
Fuuuck I live round the corner from the mosque and only saw the stupid st George flag tied to the post outside.
Makes me sick to see such hate so close to home
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u/BackToThePooture 6d ago
Fuck off fascist, real patriots don't want your brand of bootlicking racist 'pride' in my country thanks
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u/BackToThePooture 6d ago
Last time I checked trans and pride events/flags weren't being used by knobs like you to incite violence against minorities. Immigrants are the backbone of any country and I'm sure if we dna tested you we'd find out you're not as English as you think matey
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u/FieryFruitcake 7d ago
POS, maybe we should be deporting this guy to Afghanistan or Rwanda?
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u/Both-Illustrator-348 7d ago
If you guilty of racial or religious hate crime you should be deported
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u/Misstea81 7d ago
Wouldn’t it be fun if we did a DNA on every white person arrested for hate crimes and then deported them to the geographical location that shows highest on their results?
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u/jamesovertail 6d ago
Could just do it for anyone convicted of a crime, everyone gets what they want then?
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u/binarygoatfish 5d ago
You haven't thought that through or slept through history lessons. You would just stay here or end up in a country with better living standards
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u/mick_jones2 7d ago
Is this lovely chap from one of those "infamous" houses in Waverly Road? (council-managed HMO sheltering druggies)
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u/athena2153 6d ago
I lived there for hardly any time because the staff sexually harassed me and no I’m not a druggy thanks but can confirm most there are.
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u/Illustrious_Study_30 6d ago
Haha ..we call it "murder mile'
We're currently looking to buy a flat...the estate agents knew exactly where I meant when I said we were 'avouding murder mile'
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u/OliOnOrbit 7d ago
Deport him to a country devastated by war and see how he likes it, maybe will provide him with some prospective as to why people will do anything to escape their country.
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u/sega20 7d ago
Good. Anyone who threatens people whilst waving a knife around in public needs to be locked away.
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u/smirnov_aleksejras9r 5d ago
Finally, something we can all agree on.
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u/Awkward-Flatworm4837 4d ago
Sadly a lot of comments on Facebook (I mainly saw via The Portsmouth News Facebook page) seemed to excuse his behaviour. Said the current situation must have driven him to it, that he’s just unwell and they feel sorry for him etc etc. I’m glad Reddit has more sense.
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u/SirHyrumMcdaniels 7d ago edited 5d ago
Scum.
If you have problems with a group of people's practices you need to vote change not vigilante justice it.
Moron, hope he rots.
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u/DropDeadDigsy 7d ago
Horrible cowardly piece of work. Tries to bully people he thinks are weaker than him and shits himself when people bark back.
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u/ESierra 7d ago
Another Farage/Yaxley-Lennon foot soldier going away for a long time, will not be remembered or revered by their hateful cause, good riddance
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u/Dangerous-Weekend479 5d ago
Won't be a long time, they will remember, and he'll be a Reform candidate soon if they can force him into a suit and get him not to try to stab anyone publicly for ten minutes.
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u/luckdragonbelle 7d ago
Fucking scum. It makes me sick that these people think they represent us as a country. Do they fuck. We are a massive melting pot, it's the best thing about England and these fuckwits can't see it.
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u/Ok_Register4969 6d ago
A few years ago, a guy came drunk into our mosque, he was wanting to know where we do the terror training, sat down with him an hour or so, we normally sit on the carpet but got him a chair. He was surprised it was silent inside with empty rooms, asked him to come in the morning when he was sober was looking forward to speak to him as such interactions are rare for us but he never came back.
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u/Chonky-Marsupial 6d ago
Manipulated in to ruining his life by billionaires who want to turn our society into an oligarchy for their benefit but first have to create a Trump like environment of a large enough group of voters to make it happen.
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u/hoozy123 6d ago
these people using illegal immigration as ab excuse for being racist and protesting is crazy, but not surprising due to the low iq of all these people
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u/subversivefreak 7d ago
I'm glad this incident is at least not too high profile. Police have a hell of a job on their hands having to be vigilant of the far right.
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u/RiverZozz 7d ago
Nah, they’ve got their hands full arresting all those dangerous pensioners who sit in silence holding a sign.
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u/Training_Agency_7696 7d ago
It's a shame that we can't deport those racist morons. When are they going to realise that violent racists aren't welcome here? If only we could send them to Russia or the deepest depths of the Sahara or somewhere else unpleasant.
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u/UnholyDoughnuts 4d ago
The irony of saying russia is unpleasant then going on to complain about racism... sigh. I hate 2025 propaganda I really do. Russia isnt so bad despite what the BBC would have you believe.
Before I get a reply full of what about ism we supply jet parts that bomb gaza via Israel and refuse to save palestine even today. Let's not pretend if Russia did half of what Israel has done itd be a different story entirely.
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u/Background_Union_200 6d ago
Another patriot protecting are children 🤣 wonder if he has a job or pays any tax?
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u/Either-Syrup-2276 6d ago
Deport him to Belfast or a Glasgow scheme with his Pompey accent. Job done.
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u/willys_stroker 5d ago
Divide and rule. Whilst the corporations profit and exploit our divisions. We gotta stick together, somehow. Even though it appears difficult to do.
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u/macro_aggression33 5d ago
Yet another Englishman driven to extremes by the multicultural dystopia we are all forced to live in.
Godspeed young man.
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u/Ok_Week1376 5d ago
There's always been the odd nutjob round Waverly rd looned out on something or other. Local tradition l assumed in 83 or 4 when I lived round there. I'm not surprised.
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u/Tingalish 4d ago
Why does the world feel like it's going backwards now....it just makes me so sad...
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u/badbeardmus 2d ago
I saw a video of a guy screaming at some others about needing to save the children, he seemed distressed, possibly some sort of mental break down, he had a knife but threw it away, as the guys he was shouting at, tried to calm him down.
Is this that dude does anyone know?
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u/Sanndymann 7d ago
Why is know one else talking about the fact we have proof Aliens exist??
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u/wholesomechunk 7d ago
Because we haven’t.
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u/Jedi_JJ Lovable cunt 7d ago
Update from the portsmouth exposed Facebook page -
"Update on the racially motivated attack by Jami Mosque, he plead guilty to all charges in court.
The suspect has been further remanded into custody and is due to appear next at Portsmouth Crown Court on Friday 3 October for sentencing."