The sentencing of a known associate of Welling-born hate preacher Anjem Choudary has been postponed.
Michael Coe, 35, was due to be sentenced for knocking a schoolboy unconscious because he didn’t approve of the 16-year-old cuddling his teenage girlfriend in the street.
The married father of two was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in August and appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Friday (November 11).
But Judge Michael Gledhill QC agreed to delay the hearing until November 30 after a clerical mix-up meant reports were not ready.
He said he did so "with extreme reluctance".
Muslim convert Coe has a long record of violent offences starting when he was 16, including assaults, burglary, robbery and violent disorder.
Welling-born hate preacher Anjem Choudary
He was radicalised in prison by al Qaida terrorist Dhiren Barot in 2007, while serving an eight-year term for firing a shotgun at police during an arrest.
Coe, since known as Mikaeel Ibrahim, has attended a number of extremist demonstrations, including protests over the banning of niqabs in France and the values of Sharia law.
He became a close associate of convicted hate preacher Choudary, founder of the banned organisation al-Muhajiroun, of which Coe was a member.
In September Choudary was jailed for five-and-a-half years for drumming up support for Islamic State (IS).
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