In an exclusive interview with the Belfast Telegraph, Pastor McConnell last night defiantly said he'd go to prison rather than withdraw the remarks.
"I am 78 years of age and in ill health but jail knows no fear for me," he said.
"They can lock me up with sex offenders, hoodlums and paramilitaries and I will do my time.
"I have no regrets about what I said. I do not hate Muslims but I denounce Islam as a doctrine and I make no apologies for that. I will be pleading 'not guilty' when I stand in the dock in August."
Pastor McConnell's solicitor Joe Rice vowed to fight the case "tooth and nail". [Belfast Telegraph] Read more
