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Woman-beating sectarian thug who threatened to ‘kill all stinking Fenians’ back in court

Hanna is not long out of Maghaberry Prison, where he had been sent to serve five months for a pipe bomb threat

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A woman-beating sectarian thug who threatened to “kill all dirty, stinking Catholics” has been convicted of taking part in an illegal loyalist protest.

Jordan Hanna will be sentenced in January after he admitted to the charge of taking part in an “unnotified public procession”.

The 35-year-old was among around 150 loyalists and unionists who marched in Antrim town in April 2021 in protest against the so-called Irish Sea border.

But it emerged Hanna’s transgression could see him hit with a heavy sentence as Antrim Magistrates’ Court, sitting in Ballymena, heard he has a record and is currently on licence from prison.

Hanna is not long out of Maghaberry Prison, where he had been sent to serve five months for a pipe bomb threat.

The thug sent a raft of terrifying messages to a woman, including one saying he was going to put a pipe bomb under her ex-partner’s car.

Hanna, who also pleaded guilty to assaulting his ex-partner in June last year after he grabbed her by the throat before pushing her against a wall and choking her, also threatened to “disclose private photographs” of a woman.

He hit headlines across the world during the summer of 2022 when he filmed himself stating proudly, “you dirty, stinking f***ing Fenian bastards — I will kill every one of you” while he was celebrating the Twelfth.

The video went viral and Hanna was exposed as a sectarian thug, although he later said sorry for his behaviour. However, the PSNI launched a hate-crime investigation.

In May, the PPS dropped the hate crime charge and he was instead sentenced for pleading guilty to improper use of a communication device.

After being contacted by the Sunday World, he apologised for the shocking sectarian remarks, and after a video emerged of him fighting with two Catholics in a previous incident, he told us: “Catholics are always attacking me.”

Exactly 12 months ago, the tough-talking bodybuilder was put behind bars after he pleaded guilty to cowardly threats made to a petrified woman.

The woman told police Hanna had sent her a number of messages threatening to harm her and including one in which the defendant said he would put a “pipe bomb” under her ex-partner’s car. The prosecutor said Hanna also made a threat to “disclose private photographs” and the messages had “caused her distress”.

Hanna was jailed for five months and also made the subject of a two-year restraining order.

Days after his embarrassing sectarian slur clip emerged, another film of him involved in a violent punch-up with two Catholic teenagers surfaced.

Hanna was seen exchanging blows with two men who he had confronted as they sat outside a pet shop his parents owned in an incident last year.

When they clashed, Hanna gave as good as he got for a while but received a number of blows to his face and looked in trouble until he was “rescued” by his mum who waded in to save her dopey son.

Hapless Hanna told the Sunday World 18 months ago: “Catholics are always attacking me.

“I’ve been stabbed by Catholics; I’ve been beaten by Catholics and the police don’t even do anything, so I just wade in myself.

“These Catholics were waiting for me at my mum and dad’s shop. There were more of them standing around the sides watching — this is the kind of scum I’m dealing with.”

Other sources told the Sunday World, however, that in fact the two Catholic teens had been minding their own business when they were confronted by Hanna who provoked them into a scrap.

Hanna reiterated his grovelling apology for the anti-Catholic film rant in which he states some of friends are Catholics.

He even told us while he was in Maghaberry Prison he made friends with a number of senior republicans who he described as “100 per cent sound”.

He told us: “I’m not judging all Catholics the same. I have Catholic friends who have supported me and when I was in Maghaberry I met Provos in there who were 100 per cent sound. I got on with them no problem.

“But these wee rats round Antrim are different.

“They’ve been beating and stabbing me all my life.

“I don’t care if there are 20 of them or if they have a knife or a gun, I’ll get into them if they start on me.”

He’ll be sentenced on January 9 for taking part in the unnotified parade which took place on April 23, 2021.