Antivaxxer is jailed for smashing Covid jab centre windows with rocks
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An 'arrogant' antivaxxer has been jailed for 21 months for causing £11,000 worth of damage when he smashed windows at two Covid vaccination centres with rocks.
Paul Edwards, 58, was convicted of damaging property at Mold Crown Court on June 16.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said Paul Edwards had not 'shown any insight to the harm your behaviour caused'.
He handed the anti-vaxxer a 21-month sentence for the damage caused
He was arrested by North Wales Police after damaging five windows at a vaccination centre close to the police station at Llandudno on December 14, the court heard.
But prosecutor Anna Price said the following night he vandalised 25 windows at the OpTIC building in St Asaph business park.
He broke only one of the vaccination centre's windows, but caused damage to businesses in the park.
No disruption was caused to the vaccination programme.
Edwards, representing himself, denied two counts of damaging property.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said: 'Both incidents involve attacks on wider society.'
The judge said Edwards had 'Genuinely and strongly-held views which were critical of official policies and laws' to protect the population.
But he couldn't go out and break the law in order to impose his views on others who would have seen the jabs as a lifeline.
He added Edwards's conduct was 'arrogant and particularly egregious.'
Anna Price, the prosecutor in the case, said Mr Edwards had smashed windows two nights in a row as he targeted coronavirus vaccination centres because he claimed there had been 'deliberate scaremongering' and 'censorship' about Covid-19
Paul Edwards (left) arrives at Mold Crown Court where he was convicted of damaging 30 windows in an anti-vax rampage in December
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Judge Rowlands told the defendant : 'You haven't shown any insight to the harm your behaviour caused, or c5116965236728318472 its potential to have caused, vulnerable individuals.
'You intended to break into both premises and cause far more damage.'
A security guard was cut by flying glass during the incident.
Edwards told the jury he had been trying to obstruct the vaccination programme which was putting the public 'in danger.'
He claimed there had been 'deliberate scaremongering' and there was 'censorship' in Britain.
Communist China had a vested interest in destabilising Western society, he argued.
The devastation at one of the buildings attacked by Edwards.
The vaccine centre was not prevented from running normally
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Paul Edwards, 58, was convicted of damaging property at Mold Crown Court on June 16.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said Paul Edwards had not 'shown any insight to the harm your behaviour caused'.
He handed the anti-vaxxer a 21-month sentence for the damage caused
He was arrested by North Wales Police after damaging five windows at a vaccination centre close to the police station at Llandudno on December 14, the court heard.
But prosecutor Anna Price said the following night he vandalised 25 windows at the OpTIC building in St Asaph business park.
He broke only one of the vaccination centre's windows, but caused damage to businesses in the park.
No disruption was caused to the vaccination programme.
Edwards, representing himself, denied two counts of damaging property.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said: 'Both incidents involve attacks on wider society.'
The judge said Edwards had 'Genuinely and strongly-held views which were critical of official policies and laws' to protect the population.
But he couldn't go out and break the law in order to impose his views on others who would have seen the jabs as a lifeline.
He added Edwards's conduct was 'arrogant and particularly egregious.'
Anna Price, the prosecutor in the case, said Mr Edwards had smashed windows two nights in a row as he targeted coronavirus vaccination centres because he claimed there had been 'deliberate scaremongering' and 'censorship' about Covid-19
Paul Edwards (left) arrives at Mold Crown Court where he was convicted of damaging 30 windows in an anti-vax rampage in December
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Judge Rowlands told the defendant : 'You haven't shown any insight to the harm your behaviour caused, or c5116965236728318472 its potential to have caused, vulnerable individuals.
'You intended to break into both premises and cause far more damage.'
A security guard was cut by flying glass during the incident.
Edwards told the jury he had been trying to obstruct the vaccination programme which was putting the public 'in danger.'
He claimed there had been 'deliberate scaremongering' and there was 'censorship' in Britain.
Communist China had a vested interest in destabilising Western society, he argued.
The devastation at one of the buildings attacked by Edwards.
The vaccine centre was not prevented from running normally
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