Convicted terrorist sues pub for £1,850 because sign ‘scares him’
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A convicted terrorist is suing a pub because, he claims, its sign incites violence and scares him. Khalid Baqa is taking the Saracen’s Head Inn in Amersham, Buckinghamshire to court for the sum of £1,850. The 60-year-old – who has served time in jail for preparing jihadi propaganda – hopes to sue 30 more establishments with the same name if successful.
![[Convicted terrorist sues landlord of The ?Saracen?s Head pub for ?1,850 because sign ?scares him?]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233451131-4d4a.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
He says the sign, which depicts a bearded man wearing a turban, ‘scares and worries him’, adding that it’s xenophobic, racist and incites violence. But the pub landlord Robbie Hayes described Baqa’s claims as a ‘joke’. He told The Sun: ‘He’s just chancing his hand. Of course it worries me — you never know with people like this.’.
![[Khalid Baqa arrives at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in London charged with committing fraud by false representation. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday April 6, 2017. See PA story COURTS Baqa. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/AN_119225731-e2bc-e1734353034793.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
He said the pub – currently owned by brewery Greene King – had been called The Saracen’s Head for 500 years and added: ‘No one at this pub is racist, we don’t believe the sign is racist and the name is simply historic.’. Mr Hayes said the pub wouldn’t change hundreds of years of history just because some ‘loudmouth’ wants to cause trouble.
![[Convicted terrorist sues landlord of The ?Saracen?s Head pub for ?1,850 because sign ?scares him?]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233451147-6912.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Baqa has filed a ‘claim of money’ form to the county court for money he says he’s owed. In his submission he said he had been walking through the area and was ‘shocked and deeply offended’ by the sign. Seeing the sign ‘instilled worry and fear in me since it was clearly xenophobic, racist and inciting violence to certain people,’ he said.
![[Khalid Javed Baqa, 53 (29.06.64) from east London has today, Tuesday, 24 July been sentenced at the Old Bailey to four years and eight months? imprisonment. METROPOLITAN POLICE HANDOUT]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_22941361-c871-e1734358773780.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
