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UK: "Lone bomber" was involved with BNP

01 May 1999

David Copeland, who police have named as the "lone-bomber" responsible for last April's nail bomb campaign in London, "was briefly involved with the [British National] party in East London in 1997", according to the organisation's leader-in-waiting, Nick Griffin. Griffin's admission, in the BNP magazine Spearhead, came after strenuous denials by party officials in the immediate aftermath of the atrocities. It was made after a photograph of Copeland, standing next to party leader John Tyndall at a BNP rally in September 1997, was published in the Daily Mirror newspaper on 25 May. Griffin also says that after leaving the BNP, "..Copeland became a member of the so-called National Socialist Movement (NSM).. It was the political front group for the wing of Combat 18 "loyal" to the acknowledged police informer Charlie Sargent." The BNP, and possible NSM, connections throw the police "lone-bomber" theory into considerable doubt. It also begs the question of why, when the police have so deeply infiltrated the main fascist organisations, they had so little knowledge about the bombing campaign. Del O'Conner the leader of the White Wolves, which claimed responsibility for the bombs, was detained, questioned and released on his return to the UK from America in June.