Star Wars Church Kerfuffle

HOLYHEAD, Wales — A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape … and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church, was given a suspended sentence Tuesday.

Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones — aka Master Jonba Hehol — with a metal crutch, hitting him on the head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates’ Court.

He also whacked Jones’ 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones — known as Master Mormi Hehol — bruising his thigh in the March 25 incident, prosecutors said.

The two cousins and Barney Jones’ brother, Daniel, set up the Church of Jediism, Anglesey order, last year. Jedi is the faith followed by some of the central characters in the “Star Wars” films.

The group, which claims about 30 members, says …

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Thanks to FWD from an Orthodox Seminarian.

Oh! And while we’re at it …

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