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Richard Price EDL Co-ordinator - Placed on the sex offenders register.

Will No One Think Of The Children ? | 03.01.2011 22:05 | Anti-racism | Other Press | Birmingham | Liverpool

A leader of the English Defence League who was described as a “political prisoner” after being jailed for violence at a march had already been placed on the sex offenders register for downloading indecent images of children, The Times can reveal.

Richard Price, co-ordinator of the West Midlands division of the EDL
Richard Price, co-ordinator of the West Midlands division of the EDL

Richard Price, co-ordinator of the West Midlands division of the EDL
Richard Price, co-ordinator of the West Midlands division of the EDL


Source: The Times (paywalled)

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A leader of the English Defence League who was described as a “political prisoner” after being jailed for violence at a march had already been placed on the sex offenders register for downloading indecent images of children, The Times can reveal.

The far-right group launched a campaign to free Richard Price, co-ordinator of the West Midlands division of the EDL, after he was jailed last month for violent behaviour. But Price, 41, had been convicted in June 2010 of making four indecent images of children, and possessing cocaine and crack cocaine.

That conviction followed an earlier arrest in 2009 for public order offences believed to have been connected with EDL marches. Police were understood to have seized and analysed his computer, leading to the discovery of sexual images of children that he had downloaded. His home was also searched and the drugs were found.

Price admitted four counts of making indecent images of children and two charges of possessing cocaine when he appeared at Birmingham Crown Court. He was banned from owning a computer for a year, given a three-year community supervision order and ordered to sign on to the sex offenders register for five years.

Price, from Quinton, Birmingham, and Collum Keyes, 23, also from Birmingham, were among 12 people arrested when they surged through police lines during a protest in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in May 2010.

When that case came to court in December, Price admitted using threatening behaviour. He was jailed for three months and given a ten-year Criminal Anti-Social Behaviour Order banning him from attending marches outside Birmingham. Keyes, who admitted disorderly conduct, was fined £150.

When Price was jailed, EDL members launched a campaign urging supporters to write to the Prime Minister and MPs to try to “win justice for Richard Price, EDL”.

The Aston Villa supporter, who has also been linked to football hooliganism, was even likened by his supporters to a modern-day John Bunyan, the Puritan Christian preacher and author of Pilgrim’s Progress who was jailed for continuing his sermons without the permission of the established Church in the 1600s.

But today’s revelation that one of the EDL’s leading members has been convicted of sex offences will come as a huge embarrassment to a group that has struggled to shrug off its reputation as a new version of the National Front.

In recent months, particularly following the political demise of the British National Party, the EDL has begun to attract more support. Its leader, who had previously used the alias Tommy Robinson, was traced by The Times and gave his first interview using his real name.

Stephen Lennon has vehemently denied that the group he started in Luton, Bedfordshire, is racist, saying that it has even set up a gay and lesbian division and given a prominent role to a Sikh supporter opposed to Islamic extremists.

Supporters of the EDL had claimed that Price became a political prisoner after he, along with Keyes, was banned from organising, controlling or travelling to any open-air protest outside Birmingham for ten years.

It was the first time a Criminal Anti-Social Behaviour Order, sought by Thames Valley Police in conjunction with the National Domestic Extremism Unit, had been issued to a demonstrator connected to the EDL.

Last month, a database of EDL supporters was published on the internet. Hackers had attacked the group’s database of those who had made donations to the EDL and people who had bought clothing from its merchandise wing.

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Will No One Think Of The Children ?

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LOL

03.01.2011 22:08

Download this article as a P D File :o)

Oh Noes


No suprises there

04.01.2011 02:20

Like all racist, nazi far right scumbags it would appear that the EDL is a hiding place for nonces. Does this come as a surprise?

If the nazi salutes, racist chants, victimisation of minorities and mindless violence was not enough to convince you that the EDL are nazis, just like the BPP, The BNP and others it would appear that the EDL is treading that well worn far right path of counting child abusers among its followers. Well who wants to break with tradition eh lads?

Just to lighten the tone a little here are erstwhile EDL nonces, oh, sorry, I mean members being laughed off a Hartlepool Supporter's forum, it would seem, just like Sunderland fans ( http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=552131), and the army, (ARRSE debarcle) Hartlepool fans think the EDL are wankers too.  http://www.pooliebunker.co.uk/newbunker/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=35857


Wankers and nonces it would seem.

Bet the "freedom for Richard Price" campaign gets dropped like brick, either that or they'll try to blame the anti-fascists for "setting them up," the wankers,

What a great new year, the EDL laughed off 2 footie forums AND exposed as insurance fraudsters AND nonces!!!!

Happy New Year anti-fascists!!!!!

IHTF


unsurprised!

04.01.2011 14:59

the far right has long been the homeground for all kinds of 'unusual sexual proclivities' so this comes as no surprise really. care to comment tommy? or on the picture of you at the BNP meeting? no? who'da thought it! see this for more details!
 http://malatesta32.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/gay-nazis-and-deviants-surely-not/

'Malatesta'
- Homepage: http://malatesta32.wordpress.com/


Ha!

04.01.2011 15:44

So...next time the EDL muppets chant "allah is a peado" on their silly demos, we can chant back "so is Richard Price"!

ger


Sweet Fifteen!

05.01.2011 00:48

Liam Pinkham was accused of having a relationship with Mike Heaton's ex-girlfriend ‘Kim Whitenightshade’s fifteen year old daughter.

There's plenty more nonces in the edl.

Makes you wander if Yaxley has dirty linen of his own, openly defending a convicted paedo.

Wander what secretly uploaded pictures there are on so-called "Tommy Robinson's" laptop?

He's extremely lucky regularly grassing to special branch on football hooliganism gives him immunity from investigation.

Child Line


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