Far-right activists banned from entering Britain

A man accused of sending letters calling on people to launch violent attacks on “Punish a Muslim Day” has appeared in court.

David Parnham is accused of 14 offences including soliciting murder with several rounds of malicious letters allegedly sent over two years.

The 35-year-old, of St Andrew’s Close in Lincoln, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday and was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 29 June.

He is charged with two counts of encouraging the commission of criminal offences by sending letters promoting a so-called “Punish a Muslim Day” between February and June this year.
The letters claimed Europe and North America was being “overrun” by Muslims and contained a makeshift scorecard for attacks ranging from pulling off women’s headscarves to acid attacks, torture, bombing a mosque and “butchering” Muslims with guns, knives and vehicles.

Mr Parnham is also charged with five counts of sending packages containing substances the recipients feared were noxious between June 2016 and this month, five counts of sending letters conveying a threat and one of making a bomb hoax.

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45% increase in terror attacks across Europe

Frightening figures were released on Wednesday by the EU police agency, Europol, as part of its terrorism report. The number of attacks in 2017 rose by a massive 45 percent compared to 2016 figures.

The number of terrorist attacks increased from 142 in 2016 to 205 in 2017. Last year 68 people were killed and 844 injured. In 2016, 142 people were killed, but fewer than half were injured, with 379 victims.

That there were only half as many deaths is down to the fact that attackers are ‘less organised’ than previously and also due to emergency services prompt intervention.

Of the 68 deaths in 2017, 62 were attributed to Islamists. By far the most attempted or actual attacks were again in the UK, followed by France.

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A government report revealed that the United Kingdom government’s “deradicalization” initiatives have a failure rate of greater than 95 percent – which is blamed on their politically correct delivery because instructors are too scared to use a “religious extremist”context and resort to discussing “Islamophobia,” instead of Islamic terrorism.

UK gov’t more than just PC

Evidence indicating the pro-Muslim leaning of the UK government was showcased two years ago when British parents and community members were outraged after the local school called the police to report a student for looking up a conservative UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) website in class.

Two men have been found guilty of being members of banned neo-Nazi group National Action.

Christopher Lythgoe, 32, of Warrington, and Matthew Hankinson, 24, of Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, were convicted after a trial lasting over five weeks.

Lythgoe was jailed for eight years and Hankinson for six.

Earlier in the trial, another man, Jack Renshaw, 23, of Skelmersdale, Lancs, admitted preparing an act of terrorism after buying a machete.

He admitted buying it for the purpose of murdering West Lancashire MP Rosie Cooper.

A total of six men were on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of being members of National Action.

Lythgoe, the National Action leader, was found not guilty of encouragement to murder for allegedly giving Renshaw permission to kill Ms Cooper on behalf of the group.

Renshaw also admitted threatening to kill Det Con Victoria Henderson, who was investigating him for other matters.

Mr Justice Jay said group meetings after the ban were attempting to keeping alive an aspiration which was "truly insidious and evil: the idea that this country should be purged of its ethnic minorities and its Jews; that the rule of law should be subverted; and that once the ideological revolution had taken place this national socialist world view would triumph".

Sentencing Lythgoe, he said: "You are a fully-fledged neo-Nazi replete with concomitant deep-seated, entrenched racism and anti-Semitism."

The judge told Hankinson: "You too are a neo-Nazi who glorifies and revels in a perverted ideology, has a deep hatred of ethnic minorities and Jews and has advocated violence to achieve your objectives."

Jurors were unable to decide either whether Renshaw had remained a member of National Action after it was banned, or whether two other men - Michal Trubini, 35, from Warrington and Andrew Clarke, 33, from Prescot, Merseyside - were guilty of the same charge.

Another defendant - Garron Helm, 24, from Seaforth in Merseyside - was found not guilty of being a member of the group.

It can also now be reported that Renshaw was convicted earlier this year of two counts of stirring up racial hatred in speeches he made in 2016.

National Action, which was founded in 2013, was the first extreme right-wing group to be banned in the UK.

It was proscribed in December 2016 after it was assessed as being "concerned in terrorism".

Earlier that year, the group had celebrated the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox by a white supremacist, which the government said amounted to the unlawful glorification of terrorism.

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A disaffected former activist was key to conviction of two members of banned National Action

The week after the Manchester Arena bombing in which 22 died and hundreds were injured, several men in their 20s and early 30s arrived in the city to view its aftermath for themselves.

But unlike the many others who visited the site to leave flowers and cards, the men – members of the banned far-right terrorist group National Action – had not come to pay their respects.

“They went not to condemn the bombing or pay tribute to the victims of the jihadi bomber,” said Matthew Collins of the anti-fascist campaign group Hope Not Hate. “They went to admire his work. That is what the police don’t understand. They may look like a bunch of skinny schoolboys in the main, but they carry with them an absolutely horrendous death wish.”

That the Observer learned of this macabre gathering is thanks to a disaffected former member of the group who blew the whistle on its activities, a move that last week led to the jailing of Christopher Lythgoe, 32, and Matthew Hankinson, 24, for being members of National Action.

Robbie Mullen, 25, exposed the hate-filled operations of an obscure organisation that hitherto had been best known for endorsing the murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox, a move which in December 2016 led to it being proscribed, making it the first rightwing group to be banned in Britain since the second world war. But his actions have also helped shine light on how the UK’s increasingly fragmented far right attracts young men to its cause.
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As for National Action, Collins suggested it was finished. Several of its members have fled abroad, others gone to ground in the UK. But its influence lingers – spawning copycat groups including Scottish Dawn and NS131.

“It’s worrying,” Collins said. “It’s not those guys who will commit a terrorist act, it will be some lonely kid in a bedroom who feels inadequate and will be encouraged to do something.”

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