| Hateland -
Articles |
30/06/00
- Twisted loner's sole friend was pet rat
Ananova
David Copeland, a twisted loner whose only friend was
a rat, dreamed of fame, power and the establishment of
a master race - as had his hero, Adolf Hitler. He believed
he could ignite a race war in Britain by bombing racial
minorities and that an Aryan national socialist state
would arise from the carnage.
He spent hours packing bombs with nails and firework explosives
at his rented bedsit in a vicar's wife's house. He ignored
his fellow tenants - preferring his pet white rat for
company instead.
Copeland decorated the bedroom wall with swastikas and
pictures of atrocities. A photograph of Hitler inspired
him. As a teenager, Copeland showed early signs of promise
with eight GCSE passes.
But by the age of 16 he was already dreaming of a place
in history as one of Britain's most notorious mass murderers.
Even when caught, after killing and dreadfully maiming
in a one-man bombing campaign, Copeland remained unrepentant
and intended to continue to terrorise Britain.
Two weeks before his Old Bailey trial he declared that
if ever given his liberty, he wanted to plant more bombs.
He loved the infamy and it was his destiny to cause murder,
mayhem and chaos, he said.
His next target would have been Southall, west London,
which has a large Asian population. Other ethnic areas
throughout the UK were already on alert because of fears
he could strike at them next.
Copeland believed in white supremacy and targeted racial
minorities. But the loner also hated homosexuals - the
last nail bomb he was able to plant was left at a mainly
gay pub in Soho and caused massive devastation. |
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