Two charged with gay hate crime

Two men have been arrested and charged with stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation, in the first prosecution of its kind. Razwan Javed, 30, and Kabir Ahmed, 27, are accused of handing out a leaflet headed The Death Penalty? outside the Jamia mosque in Derby in July 2010, the Crown Prosecution Service said. The leaflet is understood to have called for gay people to be executed. It was also put through letterboxes the same month. The pair are expected to appear at Derby magistrates court today. CPS lawyer Sue Hemming said: "This is the first ever prosecution for this offence."