Tamara Dubois

Introduction

Tamara Dubois is a 37-year-old woman who was jailed after being found guilty of abusing worshippers outside the Jersey Islamic Centre in St Helier during Ramadan in March. The Royal Court heard Dubois and Jade Hamon, 52, acted aggressively outside the centre, threatening to inject worshippers with pork — a food forbidden in Islam — with phrases including “sex traffickers” and claims that people from the centre were “grooming children” . Dubois was sentenced to 14 months for one count of threatening and abusive behaviour and three counts of assault, and was jailed for a further three years for importing heroin in a separate charge committed while on bail for the first case .

Background Information

The incident occurred outside the Jersey Islamic Centre in St Helier during Ramadan in March 2026, when a teenage girl leaving Friday prayers was reading a book on the corner of a road. Witnesses described Dubois and Hamon as “aggressive”; Hamon used a racial slur and a swear word while telling the girl to stop reading the Quran, and the court heard Hamon alleged people from the centre were “grooming children” . Dubois kicked one of the victims during the incident and also tried to punch them in the face but missed .

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Convicted and sentenced. Dubois’s convictions for threatening and abusive behaviour, assault and heroin importation were determined by Jersey’s Royal Court, which imposed the sentences in her case.

The Royal Court heard the victim statements behind the charges: the teenage girl who was abused said in her statement that she was “scared to leave her house” and worried she could be attacked again, while a man Dubois assaulted said the “emotional and psychological impact” had stayed with him and that he had always thought of Jersey as a welcoming place for his family but now questioned that . Judge Commissioner Alan Binnington said that although the incident may not have started as racist or anti-Islamic, it had quickly become so, subjecting worshippers to religious abuse and making them fear for their safety at “what should have been a time of peace and reflection” .

While on bail for the abuse and assault offences, Dubois and Hamon travelled to St Malo in June and were stopped by customs officers arriving back in Jersey; a search found Dubois carrying 19.09 grams of heroin with an estimated street value between £9,500 and £13,300. Commissioner Binnington said it was a joint venture and the drugs were for personal use; Hamon received a six-month sentence for threatening and abusive behaviour and was also jailed for three years for the heroin import, while a small quantity of cannabis found at his property attracted no further penalty .

Public Reaction and Consequences

Commissioner Binnington said the cases had the potential to “sow division in the wider community… to encourage people who hold racist or anti-Islamic views,” and that it was important the court send a message such behaviour would not be tolerated in Jersey . Alongside the prison sentences, he imposed four restraining orders on the pair relating to three victims and the area surrounding the centre .

Current Status

Dubois, 37, is serving a total sentence of 14 months for the threatening and abusive behaviour and assault counts plus three years consecutive for heroin importation. Hamon, 52, is serving six months plus three years for the same joint importation venture. Both are additionally bound by the four restraining orders .

Impact on Their Career/Life

Dubois now carries convictions for religiously aggravated abusive behaviour, three assaults and drug importation, with a custodial term of more than four years in total once the sentences run their course. The restraining orders tie her and Hamon away from the victims and the area around the Jersey Islamic Centre indefinitely, and the ruling’s language — that the attack encouraged those “who hold racist or anti-Islamic views” — fixes the case in Jersey’s public record as an example of religiously targeted abuse .

Sources

• BBC News, “Duo who abused people outside Jersey Islamic Centre jailed,” November 9, 2026 — source