THREE teenagers accused of desecrating 47 Muslim graves will face a retrial.
The schoolboys, aged 17, 15 and 14, allegedly took a claw hammer to the headstones at Charlton Cemetery, Cemetery Lane, breaking them in two and smashing commemorative enamelled pictures of the deceased.
One of the Catholic graves, which stood next to the Muslim section in the cemetery, was also kicked over during the incident on March 17, Inner London Crown Court heard.
Judge Lindsay Burn granted the three bail.
Their retrial was fixed for February 11.
Last month the jury at the court which was hearing the case was discharged because of legal problems.
The three teenagers, two of them from Charlton and one from Eltham, deny one charge of conspiracy to commit religiously aggravated criminal damage.
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