Should he really get jail time???

Aren't the courts crowded enough?

A man who upset a hotel worker by showing her video footage on his mobile telephone of a hostage being beheaded in Iraq was jailed yesterday for 60 days.

Subhaan Younis, 23, was talking to Charlotte McClay in the Moathouse Hotel in Glasgow when he showed the graphic images he had downloaded from the internet.

Sentencing him at the city's district court, the magistrate, Euan Edment, told Younis: "I struggle to understand why you had images on your phone entailing the death and degradation of another human being, regardless of their religion or race. Miss McClay was shocked, upset and distressed by the images."

He added that he did not accept Younis's explanation that they were talking about the war in Iraq, and that he warned her he was going to show her a beheading. Dominic Sillar, defending, said his client had made a "colossal mistake".