The conviction of Robert Cottage for possession of explosives has once
again highlighted the link between BNP members and racial violence and
terrorism. While the BNP moved quickly to distance itself from the
actions of a man who stood in three local elections as a BNP candidate,
he joins a growing list of BNP members who have engaged in some form of
terrorist or murderous behaviour. Here are a few recent examples:

    * DAVID COPELAND – London nail bomber David Copeland brought havoc
to London when he set off three nail bombs in 1999. He was a BNP member
and activist in East London. He told police when questioned that he
wanted to ignite a race war in Britain so that the white population
would vote for a BNP government.

    * TONY LECOMBER – Nick Griffin’s chief lieutenant Tony Lecomber was
convicted and imprisoned for three years for five offences under the
Explosives Act after he tried to blow up the offices of a political
party. Police found hand grenades and detonators at his home. Despite
this the BNP kept him on its payroll for over ten years. He was
eventually forced out of his job after he approached Joe Owens to kill a
leading politician.

    * ALLEN BOYCE and TERRY COLLINS In July 2006 Allen Boyce, a BNP
supporter, received a two-year suspended sentence for providing Terry
Collins, a BNP activist, with bomb making instructions. Collins himself
was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in 2005 for conducting a
racist terror campaign against the Asian community in Eastbourne.

    * MARK BULLMAN – arsonist Mark Bulman, a BNP activist, was jailed
for five years in January after trying to set fire to Swindon’s Broad
Street mosque. He used a BNP leaflet as a fuse for his petrol bomb.

    * JOE OWENS – gangland hitman For three years until summer 2004 Joe
Owens acted as the personal bodyguard to Nick Griffin, the BNP leader,
as well as being the Merseyside organiser of the BNP. However, Owens was
also known locally as a gangland hitman, whom police had linked to
several underworld murders.

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