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Why the fans who sing songs of hate are committing an offence

The controversy over the League Cup Final, and in particular the reported behaviour of some sections of the crowd who were in attendance, has been full of sound and fury but with little emerging in the way of legal clarity about what, if any, offences were committed (“Church to send Old Firm film to police”), The Herald, March 26).

A recent experience which I had in a Scottish court may shed some light on the issues involved.