A man who threw an object at Nigel Farage during an election campaign has avoided prison.
Josh Greeley, 28, was given a six-week suspended prison sentence at Barnsley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
He was also sentenced to 120 hours unpaid work and 20 days rehabilitation and ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £154 surcharge.
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Greeley pleaded guilty to a public order offence after hurling a disposable coffee cup and another object at the British Reform Party leader in the centre of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, on 11 June.
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Mr Farage was campaigning on the top deck of his election bus when the object was thrown.
The footage shows him ducking to avoid the object, which did not hit him.
A week earlier, Mr Farage had a milkshake thrown at him as he left a Wetherspoons pub in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, where he is now an MP.