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The leaders of far-right group Britain First have been charged with religiously aggravated harassment over alleged activity during a gang-rape trial.

Leader Paul Golding and his deputy Jayda Fransen were arrested by Kent Police in May, and then re-arrested three months later.

It followed concerns relating to their alleged behaviour during the trial of four men for attacking a teenage girl above the 555 Pizza takeaway in Ramsgate.

Leader Paul Golding and his deputy Jayda Fransen

The pair, both from Penge, south east London, are said to have distributed leaflets in Thanet and Canterbury and posted videos online during the court proceedings.

The men were convicted of all charges at Canterbury Crown Court in May.

Last month, Shershah Muslimyar, 21, of Hovenden Close, Canterbury, restaurant owner Tamin Rahmani, 38, of Northwood Road, Ramsgate and Rafiullah Hamidy, 24, formerly of High Street, Herne Bay, were each jailed for 14 years, and an unnamed 17-year-old was locked up for seven.

Today, Fransen, 31, was charged with four counts of causing religiously aggravated harassment, and Golding, 35, three counts.

Both have been bailed to appear before Medway magistrates on Tuesday, October 17.