British war veteran fined for peeing on war memorial

By IANS,

London : A veteran of the Royal Air Force (RAF), the aerial warfare service branch of the British military, has been fined 115 pounds ($180) for urinating on a war memorial.

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Colin Smith, 47, claimed he couldn’t find a public loo at 1.20 a.m. after a night out drinking, the Sun reported Wednesday.

Magistrate Joan Fenwick told the former aircraft engineer: “Of all people, I wouldn’t have expected you to do that. It was disgraceful.”

The court, in Hartlepool, Teesside, heard how he swore at two cops who caught him urinating on the town’s memorial, which contains the names of hundreds of war heroes.

Smith, from Exeter, Devon city, said: “I was in desperate need of a wee. It wasn’t malicious.”