@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ - +An 'arrogant' antivaxxer has been jailed for 21 months for causing £11,000 worth of damage when he smashed windows at two Covid vaccination centres with rocks.<br>Paul Edwards, 58, was convicted of damaging property at Mold Crown Court on June 16. <br> Judge Rhys Rowlands said Paul Edwards had not 'shown any insight to the harm your behaviour caused'.<br><br>He handed the anti-vaxxer a 21-month sentence for the damage caused<br>He was arrested by North Wales Police after damaging five windows at a vaccination centre close to the police station at Llandudno on December 14, the court heard.<br>But prosecutor Anna Price said the following night he vandalised 25 windows at the OpTIC building in St Asaph business park. <br>He broke only one of the vaccination centre's windows, but caused damage to businesses in the park.<br>No disruption was caused to the vaccination programme.<br>Edwards, representing himself, denied two counts of damaging property. <br>Judge Rhys Rowlands said: 'Both incidents involve attacks on wider society.'<br>The judge said [https://www.google.com/search?q=Edwards Edwards] had 'Genuinely and strongly-held views which were critical of official policies and laws' to protect the population. <br>But he couldn't go out and break the law in order to impose his views on others who would have seen the jabs as a lifeline.<br>He added [https://dict.leo.org/?search=Edwards%27s%20conduct Edwards's conduct] was 'arrogant and particularly egregious.'<br> Anna Price, the prosecutor in the case, said Mr Edwards had smashed windows two nights in a row as he targeted coronavirus vaccination centres because he claimed there had been 'deliberate scaremongering' and 'censorship' about Covid-19<br> Paul Edwards (left) arrives at Mold Crown Court where he was convicted of damaging 30 [http://emilianomqpk66666.onesmablog.com/-Original-Microsoft-Product-Licenses-38731059 windows] in an anti-vax rampage in December<br> RELATED ARTICLES <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>Judge Rowlands told the defendant : 'You haven't shown any insight to the harm your behaviour caused, or its potential to have caused, vulnerable individuals.<br>'You intended to break into both premises and cause far more damage.' <br>A security guard was cut by flying glass during the incident.<br>Edwards told the jury he had been trying to obstruct the vaccination programme which was putting the public 'in danger.' <br>He claimed there had been 'deliberate scaremongering' and there was 'censorship' in Britain.<br>Communist China had a vested interest in destabilising Western society, he argued.<br> The devastation at one of the buildings attacked by Edwards.<br><br>The vaccine centre was not prevented from running normally <br><br>adverts.addToArray({"pos":"inread_player"})Advertisement