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UK: C18 arrests continue

01 July 1997

The demise of Combat 18 continued in September with the jailing of key west London activist, Mark Atkinson. Another C18 member, Robin Gray, who shares a flat with Atkinson in Feltham, west London, was remanded for reports before being sentenced. The two organisers, who were responsible for a publication called The Stormer, which included death lists and bomb making instructions, were arrested at their home in May last year as they prepared to produce the magazine, which was on a floppy disk. At Southwark Crown Court Judge George Bathurst-Norman remarked that he had "never encountered such vile outpourings of hatred and incitement to violence" before sentencing Atkinson to 21 months. The sentence was criticised by anti-racist activists and the Labour MP, Harry Cohen, who said: "...the courts are not taking vicious and dangerous racial abuse seriously enough...A much more severe sentence should have been imposed."