Blair Cottrell and John Bolton at County Court Directions Hearing

Patriot activist Blair Cottrell was back at Victoria s County Court yesterday for a special directions hearing in his appeal against his 2017 conviction for intent to incite ridicule or contempt of Muslims. It dealt with an application by his lawyer John Bolton to have the case heard in the Supreme Court of Victoria after the Victorian AttorneyGeneral Jill Hennessy conceded that Cottrells rights may have been violated under Victoria s Charter of Human Rights by his conviction. We spoke with Blair Cott