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🚨 NEW: Pensioner wears burqa in court to deny concealing identity at Portsmouth protest. • Timothy Miller, 76, from Hedge End, appeared at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court dressed in a burqa and carrying a handbag while denying a charge of concealing his identity. • He is accused of wearing full Islamic dress at an anti-migrant demonstration in the city on 12 September, where police had imposed a ban on face coverings. • Miller entered a not guilty plea and claimed he was observing Islam, studying the religion, and had never been asked to remove the veil during the protest. • He told the district judge the arrest was unlawful and argued that one law should apply to everyone. • The case has been listed for trial at the same court on 16 February.