offences of publishing written material that was threatening, abusive or insulting with intent to stir up racial hatred, contrary to section 19(1) of the Public Order Act 1986. On the same occasion the appellant pleaded guilty to seven offences of publishing threatening written material with intent to stir up religious hatred, contrary to section 29C(1) of the same Act. He was committed to the Crown Court for sentence pursuant to section 3 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000. On 15th February 2018 in the Crown Court at Minshull Street Manchester the sentence was sentenced by Mr Recorder Rankin to concurrent terms of 4 years' imprisonment on each of the charges. He appeals by leave of the single judge. 2. The offences took place between 12 and 19 May 2016, in the month leading up to the Brexit vote. The police became aware of concerning activity on a Twitter account with the user name of '@catamafiauk'. The account was actively monitored, and between 13 and 19 May 1,028 tweets were captured. Police analysis identified 86 written and 3 retweeted messages that were assessed as coming within the legislation. Each of the offences charged related to particular tweets posted on Twitter by the appellant but the case was opened on the basis that these were specimen charges representative of the greater total of offending Twitter traffic. 3. The following examples of the appellant's tweets are sufficient to demonstrate the appalling nature of the offending material posted by him: 12th May: "Kill a coon, kill a coon, kill, kill, kill a coon." 14th May: "Kill the black bastards." "Negro cunts need bombing." "Time for these coons to get killed." 15th May: "Burn every single mosque in England." "Kill the lot of these Muslims." 16th May: "These Muslims need a full mosque at a time taking out." 17th May: "Kill coons." "Jews need to die with the. Muslims." On the same date and answer to a previous tweet: "That's right. When we blow up 50 mosques you will soon get in your smelly houses and shut your curry breath mouth." "Stay in the EU. Will get a lot of Muslims killed; we hate them." "Mass Murder the Muslims at Dover." Finally, on 18th May: "We will mass bomb them all in the same hour." 4. The tweets were all openly viewable by users of Twitter. The appellant's Twitter account had some 724 followers who would receive the tweets that he posted. Some of the tweets contained links to other internet web pages. Many of the appellant's tweets contained offensive and inappropriate terms. He expressed pro-Brexit and antiimmigration sentiments. 5. The police were unable to discern any particular reaction arising from the dissemination of the tweets, ie postings back. The tweets that the appellant posted were each removed SMITH BERNAL WORDWAVE