JAILED: Neo-Nazi terror group from Keighley jailed for over 30 years

Four members of a neo-Nazi terror cell who manufactured weapons and advocated racist violence have been jailed for over thirty years today (June 23).

We previously covered how Daniel Wright, Liam Hall, Stacey Salmon and Samuel Whibley were found guilty of eighteen offences in March.

The prosecution described them as an “extreme fascist cell” in early 2021, who used the encrypted messaging app Telegram to share terrorist materials, further their violent, racist ideology, and encourage others to commit violence until an undercover police officer infiltrated the page.

Officers from Counter Terrorism Police North East recovered a partially-built 3D-printed gun from the home of Stacey Salmon and her partner Liam Hall. Specialist analysis of the firearm revealed that whilst incomplete; it would otherwise be lethal if fully assembled.

Officers also recovered other weapons,  practical guides for making explosives, chemicals, and neo-Nazi propaganda, following searches of different addresses.

Samuel Whibley, from Angelsey in Wales,  previously admitted to distributing the terrorist manual of the notorious US-based neo-Nazi James Mason.

The white supremacist terrorist who murdered 51 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, gained reverence from those in the group chat, alongside the livestream of the murders.

Every member of the terror group was 29, aside from 31-year-old Liam Hall – from Hill Top Walk in Keighley, West Yorkshire, who received a six-year prison sentence for the manufacturing of a firearm in breach of Section 5(2A) of the Firearms Act 1968, and possessing a gun, contrary to S5 (1)(aba) of the Firearms Act 1968.

Stacey Salmon, of the same Hill Top Walk address, was guilty of possessing a firearm contrary to Section 5(1)(aba) of the Firearms Act 1968 and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Daniel Wright of Whinfield Avenue in Keighley, West Yorkshire, found guilty of seven offences, received a 12-year sentence, and will be subject to a Serious Crime Prevention Order and a Part 4 Notification Order (which runs for thirty years) upon leaving prison.

For Samuel Whibley, of Derwen Deg, Menai Bridge in the Isle of Anglesey, he was found guilty of eight terrorism offences that included the encouragement of terrorism (contrary to Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006) and the dissemination of a terrorist material to encourage terrorism, in breach of Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006. Following the ten-year prison sentence, he will receive a Serious Crime Prevention Order and a thirty-year Part 4 Notification Order.

T/ Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Craig, the Head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, said in a statement: “Today’s outcome highlights the seriousness of the offences committed by these individuals and the verdict reached by the Jury in March.

“We work tirelessly to identify individuals who have an extremist mindset and threaten the safety and unity of our diverse communities.

“Anyone found to be engaging in terrorist activity, or violent extremism in any form, can expect to be identified and put before the courts.”

Tell MAMA welcomes the prison sentences, demonstrating how neo-Nazis and white supremacists online continue to pose a deeply concerning threat to Muslims and other minorities across the UK, with several other recent convictions showing a deeply worrying trend.

 

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JAILED: Neo-Nazi who called for racist terrorism online given six year prison term

A neo-Nazi who breached terrorism legislation and posted extreme anti-Black, white supremacist propaganda online was jailed for six years last week.

Forty-year-old Anthony Barraclough, of east London, called for terrorist violence towards Black and other minority ethnic groups on a messaging app where they posted videos of Black communities experiencing racism and material about George Floyd, murdered whilst in police custody in Minneapolis.

Counter-terror officers became aware of Barraclough’s racist calls for terror and violence, and upon an internal investigation by the Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU), officers deemed that material had breached existing terrorism legislation.

Officers from the Met Police arrested Barraclough on February 25, 2021, and a search of their property unearthed neo-Nazi paraphernalia – specified in the news release as a Celtic Cross flag.

They appeared at Kingston Crown Court on May 6 after being charged in October last year.

Anthony Barraclough pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing a terrorist publication – in breach of Section 2(1) of the Terrorism Act 2006, six counts of publishing written materials designed to incite racist hate – contrary to Section 19(1) of the Public Order Act 1986 with one further charge under the same act concerning the admission of distributing a recording to incite racist hate.

He returned to Kingston Crown Court and received a six-year prison sentence on June 10.

Detective Chief Superintendent Dominic Murphy of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command said in a statement: “Barraclough posted appalling racist material online, with the intention of encouraging others to adopt his extremist views and hatred of black people.

“This kind of online activity is poisonous and dangerous – it is not harmless idle talk, and it often has serious real-world consequences.

“Officers acted quickly to identify the offending content, and investigate and arrest the person posting it.”

 

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Covid-19: Black and Asian TfL staff died from virus at disproportionate rate

New figures show the disproportionate death toll Covid-19 had on Black and Asian Transport for London (TfL) staff.

Of the 105 TfL employees and partner organisations who died from the virus between March 2020 and May 2022, which included cleaning and security contractors, 27 staff were Asian, 33 were Black, 28 were white, and one recorded as mixed-ethnicity, with such data unavailable in sixteen cases.

Staff who died from the virus overwhelmingly worked on the London bus network, with 75 deaths recorded as 23 members of staff worked on the Tube network.

Of the figure released by the Mayor’s office, 100 of the 105 deaths were male.

The figures released came from a question from the Conservative London Assembly Member Keith Prince, the BBC and Standard reported.

A similar question, asked by Caroline Russell from the City Hall Greens, answered in December last year, gave an age breakdown –75 of the 102 deaths recorded were aged 45-64, with 17 deaths recorded amongst staff aged over 65,  as five deaths of those aged between 25-44, with five recorded with no discernable age figure.

Some harrowing, heartbreaking stories of those essential workers lost to the virus appeared in the Guardian’s ‘Lost to the virus‘ series, written with great compassion and care by Shirin Kale, including the story of 55-year-old London taxi driver John Ho.

Examples included 58-year-old Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Silva, who wanted to retire back in the Philippines and enjoy their golf, as his son Rodrick described their anger at TfL for not providing drivers with PPE sooner. “He had no mask, no gloves, no PPE,” says Rodrick as people continued to board buses at the front entrances.

The Guardian published five eulogies profiling the deaths of five bus drivers (including Rudy) in London from the virus in the summer of 2020 – including Nadir Nur (48), Kenneth Yeboah (55), Emeka Nyack Ihenacho (36) and 64-year-old Ranjith Chandrapala.

Ranjith’s daughter Leshie described how her father had no PPE and called for a public inquiry into the deaths of bus drivers in 2020.

Anne Nyack, the mother of Emeka Nyack Ihenacho (who was also a father-of-one), told The Mirror that her son feared missing work during the pandemic due to the risk of losing pay.

Bishara Maye, who spoke of the dedication of her late husband Nadir Nur, told PA that “Nadir and his colleagues had no PPE whatsoever,” and “Bus drivers are doing their part for the country; we should be protecting them.”

The harrowing case of 67-year-old Mervyn ‘Mally’ Kennedy revealed how he continued driving buses in London in the first weeks of the pandemic with just a pair of plastic gloves – as told by Shirin Kale. Drivers used social media to organise for better protection, as another driver, identified in the piece as 33-year-old Moe Manir, described how it became acts of whistleblowing.

In response to the question, Mayor Sadiq Khan said: “Every death in service is taken very seriously by TfL. TfL has put in place a range of additional support for families and colleagues where there has been a bereavement.”

A University of London study published in 2020 revealed that an earlier national lockdown “would likely have saved more lives” of bus drivers.

Black bus drivers were also most likely (23 per cent) to use public transport to work, the follow-up report revealed when stringent measures were not yet mandatory.

Hitesh Patel, 50, who died from covid in November 2020, may have caught the virus at work as a sacked bus driver went public with allegations of coverups of covid outbreaks at bus depots across London.

MyLondon and other media outlets explored the factors behind disproportionate death rates amongst TfL bus drivers in 2021.

 

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JAILED: racist who threatened and abused rail staff and police

A racist who targeted staff at New Street Station before subjecting police officers to further racist abuse and violence received a 10-month prison sentence.

51-year-old Matthew Baylis, who has a profoundly long history of offending (266 offences in total), called a staff member “Osama Bin Laden” and threatened to kill them whilst making gun gestures with their hands in a torrent of racist abuse when informed that he required a ticket.

The prosecution added that Baylis rolled his sleeves up, punched his fist into his palm, and insisted that he would return to assault them, leaving the staff member fearful for their life.

When British Transport Police officers attended the scene to arrest Baylis, he subjected an officer to racist abuse, telling them to “go back to your own country”.

With the saliva landing on the officer’s leg from Baylis’s spit and upon removing the spit hood placed on him, Baylis spat again at an officer and continued the racist abuse.

BirminghamLive quoted the judge, Heidi Kubic QC, who said: “It is regrettable that you returned to this type of behaviour so soon after being released from your last custodial sentence. The tirade of racist abuse was inexcusable,” commenting on his ‘appalling’ criminal record.

The defence for Baylis spoke of his sense of ‘remorse’.

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Far-right terror trial: 18-year-old from Oxfordshire to appear in court

Counter-terror police charged an 18-year-old male from Oxfordshire with various offences related to far-right terrorism.

Oliver Riley, of The Meadows, Watlington, in Oxfordshire, was charged with three counts related to the alleged possession of a document or record containing information likely to be helpful to an individual committing or preparing an act of terrorism – a Section 58 offence under the Terrorism Act 2000.

A further charge concerns the alleged provision of services to others that allow them to read, listen to, or obtain a publication and therefore intended (recklessly or otherwise) such behaviour would have an indirect or direct encouragement or induce others to the commission, preparations or instigation of terrorism – a Section 2 offence under the Terrorism Act 2006.

A press release from Thames Valley Police confirms that Oliver Riley also stands accused of sending a grossly offensive message online, contrary to Section 127 of the Communication Act 2003.

Riley was arrested in December last year in Gloucestershire and bailed to then appear before to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 28 June.

 

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Far-right terror trial: 18-year-old from Oxfordshire to appear in court

Counter-terror police charged an 18-year-old male from Oxfordshire with various offences related to far-right terrorism.

Oliver Riley, of The Meadows, Watlington, in Oxfordshire, was charged with three counts related to the alleged possession of a document or record containing information likely to be helpful to an individual committing or preparing an act of terrorism – a Section 58 offence under the Terrorism Act 2000.

A further charge concerns the alleged provision of services to others that allow them to read, listen to, or obtain a publication and therefore intended (recklessly or otherwise) such behaviour would have an indirect or direct encouragement or induce others to the commission, preparations or instigation of terrorism – a Section 2 offence under the Terrorism Act 2006.

A press release from Thames Valley Police confirms that Oliver Riley also stands accused of sending a grossly offensive message online, contrary to Section 127 of the Communication Act 2003.

Riley was arrested in December last year in Gloucestershire and bailed to then appear before to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 28 June.

 

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