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26/04/03 - The BNP's most high-profile
members
The Independent
NICK GRIFFIN, a Cambridge graduate, is the articulate
front-man for the party. He is standing next week in
Chadderton, Oldham.
The former National Front member has a criminal record
dating from 1998, when he received a two-year suspended
prison sentence for distributing material likely to
incite racial hatred. In his own publication, The Rune,
he described the Holocaust as "a mixture of Allied
wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie and latterday
witch-hysteria."
The Cook Report on ITV also secretly taped him describing
his old MP, Alex Carlile QC, as "this bloody Jew
... whose only claim is that his grandparents died in
the Holocaust".
KEVIN SCOTT, the BNP director for North-east England,
has a first-class degree from Newcastle University.
He also has criminal convictions from 1987 (for assault)
and 1993 (for using threatening words and behaviour).
Two years ago he wrote an article in The Final Conflict,
the newspaper of the International Third Position newspaper,
an umbrella group set up by the Italian fascist Roberto
Fiore.
Last year, Mr Scott reached a confidential settlement
with the DIY retail chain B&Q after the comany sacked
him. He blamed the company's dismissal of him on his
political activities.
ADRIAN MARSDEN became the BNP's fifth councillor in
January this year when he managed to win a seat in Halifax,
West Yorkshire, by just 28 votes.
The father of seven children, a former taxi driver
and brewery worker, Mr Marsden pledged in his campaign
literature to make sure that no more asylum-seekers
would be allowed into the Mixenden ward of Calderdale.
He has denied that he has links to Combat 18, the violent
neo-Nazi group. He was convicted of threatening behaviour
last year, bound over to keep the peace and was ordered
to pay pounds 446 in compensation.
TONY LECOMBER, the BNP's national director of group
development, has convictions for handling explosives
and for beating up a Jewish schoolteacher.
The head of the BNP party organisation, he is in charge
of creating a BNP branch in every town in the country.
His responsibilities also include the party's "white
victim support" section and "rapid reaction"
teams of activists who can be "hot on the scene
of any political opportunity".
He has claimed that the party could ultimately win "dozens
and dozens" of council seats. |
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