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The leaders of right activist group Britain First will stand trial in January accused of causing religiously aggravated harassment in Kent.

Paul Golding and his deputy Jayda Fransen were arrested in May last year after the pair campaigned in Canterbury and Ramsgate.

Their activities were linked to what was then the ongoing trial of four men who raped a 16-year-old girl in a flat above the 555 Pizza takeaway in Ramsgate.

The restaurant owner Tamin Rahmani, 38, of Northwood Road in Ramsgate, takeaway workers Shershah Muslimyar, 21, of Hovenden Close in Canterbury, Raffiullah Hamidy, 24, of no fixed abode, and a boy from Ashford, who we cannot name for legal reasons, were subsequently convicted and jailed for a combined 49 years.

Golding and Fransen will provisionally face a two-day trial at Folkestone Magistrates' Court on January 28 and 29.

In a tweet, she told her followers she was facing up to two years in prison if found guilty of the offence.

Fransen was catapulted to worldwide attention last week after US President Donald Trump retweeted three of her videos.

She then asked for him to help her with her trial, but he has yet to reply.