Shrewsbury man charged after Quran ripped up at football match
A football fan from Shrewsbury was today charged by police after pages were torn from the Quran and thrown during a football match.
Mark Stephenson, aged 25, from Napoleon Drive, Bicton Heath, is accused of causing racial or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress after the incident during the Birmingham City and Middlesborough game at St Andrew's on December 7.
He is due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court on February 28, West Midlands Police said.