BNP - "The Party of Love" - My Arse!

Date: 1st Sept '02

Name: Jim

Name: David Calladine ("Stigger")
Position: A nazi musician who performed at the BNP's "Red, White and Blue" festival 1989-1993 - Was a member of the infamous nazi skinhead band, Skrewdriver.
1994-1998 a strong supporter of Combat 18, appearing at concerts and interviewed in several C18 videos.

Name: John Cartwright
Position: Lead singer of the band Nemesis.
Performed at Red White and Blue event in 2001. Regularly performs at the nazi skinhead festivals of Blood and Honour. In October 2001 Nemesis performed at the annual Hammer Fest concert in the US. The Hammer Fest is organised by the Hammer Skins Nation, one of the most violent nazi groups in the US.

Name: Steve Cartwright
Position: A leading BNP member in Glasgow and a key Griffin supporter
1999 - Attended meeting of the American Friends of the BNP.
1991 - Appeared on a Channel Four programme, Another Journey, denying the Holocaust happened. 1992-5 - A strong supporter of C18, attending several C18 events and even now remains in contact with C18 leader Will Browning.
Leading activist in the nazi skinhead group Blood and Honour. He organises nazi concerts in Scotland and helps produce the Blood and Honour magazine.

Name: Mark Collett
Position: Chairman of the Young BNP
Formerly active in the National Front. He is also a regular at Blood and Honour nazi skinhead events.

Name: Martin Fielding
Position: attended several BNP events and meetings in 2001
1998-2001 - Attended C18 meetings and concerts in London and Coventry.Autumn 1998 -Photographed giving a nazi salute during a C18 concert in Wigan.
January 1999 - Joined 80 C18 supporters attempting to attack the Bloody Sunday demonstration in central London.

Name: Frank Forte
Position: a leading member of the BNP in Waltham Forest, North East London
A central part of the BNP's modernising team, speaking across the country on presentation and canvassing techniques.
1989 - Conviction for Actual Bodily Harm, fined 300.

Name: Bob Gertner
Position: : A nazi musician who performed at the BNP's "Red, White and Blue" festival Represented the Croydon branch at the "Annual College" held in October 2001.
2000 - A hard-line advocate of Holocaust denial - he regularly attended the David Irving libel trial in the company of other BNP activists.

Name: Warren Glass
Position: BNP member - until 1998 he was the BNP West London organiser.
1992-97 - Linked to C18.
1992 - Joined C18 security team at David Irving meetings in 1992.
1995 - Stood for the BNP in a by-election in Hounslow. The count was marred with violence as 100 C18 thugs and Chelsea football hooligans attacked Anti-Nazi League protestors outside the town hall. 1999 - Attended a C18 concert in Portadown held in conjunction with the Loyalist Volunteer Force. 1999 - Joined C18 and football hooligans in an attempted attack on the Bloody Sunday demonstration in London.Links to the British Ulster Alliance.

Name: Kevin Gough
Position: Attended the BNP's "Red, White and Blue" festival this summer
2001 - Convicted of threatening behaviour before Oldham v Stoke match.
28 April 2001 - Was given a three-year ban from all European sporting arenas after being found guilty of threatening behaviour before the Oldham v Stoke match.
January 1999 - Joined 80 C18 supporters in attempting to attack the Bloody Sunday demonstration in central London.
May 2001 - Photographed in the company of C18 supporters.
Links to the International Third Position.

Name: Rob Gray
Position: : BNP supporter, attended the "Red, White and Blue" event in Summer 2001
1994 - Sent to prison for violent disorder and assaulting a police officer. The attack followed the cancelling of a skinhead concert in London.
1997 - Sent to prison for possessing and distributing material likely to incite racial hatred. "The Stormer" was the magazine of West London Combat 18.
1992-1997 - Combat 18 supporter.Links to the British Ulster Alliance.

Name: John 'Benny' Hill
Position: attended BNP meetings in Oldham on 24 June and 30 September 2001
July 1997 - Imprisoned for possession of threatening written material.
1992 - Described himself as the "Reverend" in the Church of the Creator, a hardline US nazi group. 1994 onwards - Active in Combat 18 attending concerts and meetings across the country.
5 May 2001 - Was photographed and videoed with Combat 18 supporters.
September 29 2001 - Held a Combat 18 meeting at his house.

Name: Barry Roberts
Position: stood for the BNP in Lewisham East in the 2001 General Election
Early 1990s - A regular on C18 activities, joining the C18 security group at Holocaust denial meetings in July 1992.

Name: Neil Keilty
Position: BNP member
1987 - Convicted of using threatening words and behaviour. Fined and 9 months exclusion order from sporting arenas.
1990 - Convicted of criminal damage.
1992 - Convicted of threatening behaviour, possession of an offensive weapon, 18 months exclsuion order from sporting arenas.
1994 - Convicted for his part in a C18/hooligan attack on a pub in London after the Bloody Sunday march. He was one of six right-wingers who received a one-year sentence.Banned twice from football grounds. Has been active with the National Front, Combat 18, the National Socialist Movement and the International Third Position.

Name: David Kerr
Position: Part of the BNP's security team and a regular candidate in national elections
Was among 58 Scottish supporters prevented from attending the Scotland match with Norway in Bordeaux, France during the 1998 World Cup. Scottish and French police feared they would commit violence. The group had been followed by police from Spain.
Closely linked to the C18 leadership in London and has been an active supporter of Loyalist groups.

Name: Linda Millar
Position: a BNP member for many years
1997 - The Sunday Mirror photographed several far right activists attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting at her East London flat.
1997-1999 - leading member of the National Front and for some time its East London organiser.
2000 - Was refused entry to a BNP rally in Milton Keynes because of her KKK past. Within the year she was once again active in the BNP.

Name: Barnaby Ore
Position: Essex-based BNP activist
Previously head of the Young BNP. He was also head of the BNP video unit.
2000 - Attended a Blood and Honour leadership meeting in Northamptonshire. Ore was an acquaintance of David Copeland, the London nail bomber. According to a statement given to the police, Ore admitted introducing Copeland to the National Alliance, arguably the most extreme nazi group in the US.

Name: Dave Probert
Position: A leading activist in Oldham BNP
June 1987 - Convicted of sending packets of excreta and pornography to Labour councillors and to Oldham Community Relations officer Keith Bradford. He was given a six-month jail sentence suspended for 2 years.
A local NF organiser during the 1980s.

Name: Kalvin Richards
Position: a BNP member for many years
During the early 1990s was active in the Odal Ring. The Odal Ring held camping events which attracted British and continental supporters of far right politics.

Name: Martin Wingfield
Position: joined the BNP in 2001
He is involved in the production of the Voice of Freedom, the BNP monthly newspaper.
1976 - Joined the National Front, he later became editor of National Front News. Remained in the NF until 1995 when he joined others in renaming themselves the National Democrats.

Name: Peter Rushton
Position: A regular speaker for the BNP in the North West of England.
Has close links with nazi groups across Europe. November 2000 - travelled to Spain to celebrate the birth of Spanish fascist dictator, General Franco.

Name: Lawrence Rustem
Position: Chairman of the Ethnic Liaison Committee
Been a BNP member for 10 years - the only ethnic member of the BNP, he is half-Turkish.
Joined a BNP protest in London against the proposed banning by the German Government of the far right Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands in London.

Name: Chris Telford
Position: band member of Nemesis
Originally the BNP North East regional organiser, Telford. He is now active in the BNP in Glasgow. October 2001 - Nemesis performed at the annual Hammer Fest concert in the US. The Hammer Fest is organised by the Hammer Skins Nation, one of the most violent nazi groups in the US.

Name: Shane Sinclair
Position: currently teaching the BNP the tactics of community politics, and helped to establish the Swansea BNP branch in April 2001.
Formerly a Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate but was forced to resign after his support for hard-line loyalists was revealed.
1999 - One conviction for threatening behaviour under his real name, Shane Whalley.
His conviction was for threatening behaviour at a football match. Runs the Swansea Loyalist website which includes links to right-wing football hooligan websites across the country.
The Swansea Loyalist website has attracted messages of support from Loyalist paramilitaries, Combat 18 and Blood and Honour.

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