A MAN from Wellington is one of two people who will stand trial later this year accused of a racially or religiously motivated attack on a mosque.

Ashley Oliver, aged 35, and Alan Galloway, aged 34, have both been charged with racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage to the Islamic Centre, Tower Lane, Taunton, on Saturday, September 6, last year.

Several windows of the mosque were smashed in an early morning incident which prompted a police appeal to identify men shown in CCTV images.

The pair were said without lawful excuse to have damaged a window to a value unknown with intent to destroy or damage it, or being reckless as to whether it would be destroyed or damaged, with the offence being racially aggravated.

Oliver, of Bulford, Wellington, and Galloway, of East Reach, Taunton, appeared in Taunton Deane Magistrates Court before District Judge Angela Brereton on Thursday (January 29).

Judge Brereton bailed the pair and adjourned the case for trial in the same court on September 25 this year.

The judge said a string of other charges against Oliver would be heard at the same time.

Oliver, who was previously of no fixed abode, is also charged with one count of harassment in breach of a restraining order on January 29 last year by entering a road in Taunton from which he had been banned in October, 2024.

He is also accused of two offences of causing public disorder by using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause people harassment, alarm, or distress in Wellington, both on December 10 last year.

A fifth charge alleges he was drunk and disorderly in a public place, namely in South Street, Wellington, also on December 10, 2025.

Oliver had appeared before magistrates earlier in January when he was considered too drunk to be able to enter pleas.