UK: Nazi paedophile terrorist jailed for 16 years
01 August 2008
In June Martyn Gilleard (31), an organiser for the British People's Party (BPP) was convicted at Leeds Crown Court of two offences under the Terrorism Act. He had earlier admitted downloading thousands of images of child sexual abuse and possessing 34 rounds of ammunition. He was jailed for 16 years. When police raided his flat in Goole, East Yorkshire, they recovered an arsenal of weapons, including four nail bombs, kept in preparation for a "racial war". The BPP initially offered its unreserved support to "its trusted and loyal comrade" but expelled him from the organisation once his case became public. Gilleard was, at the time of his arrest, also a member of the National Front and the White Nationalist Party.
Gilleard, a forklift driver, was arrested at his half-brother's home in Dundee, Tayside, Scotland last November three days after a police raid on his Yorkshire flat. Humberside police had launched the raid searching for evidence of child pornography and seized nearly 40,000 images from his computer. Gilleard admitted ten specimen offences of possessing indecent images of children. Humberside's Chief Inspector, Chris Kelk, described the images as "some of the most disturbing my team and I have ever seen" and "distressing".
During the course of the raid a significant amount of racist and fascist literature was also found and the Leeds counter-terrorism unit was called in to investigate. The police operation also discovered four home-made nail bombs, ammunition, knives, machetes, camouflaged clothing, balaclavas, a bomb-making manual and documents related to terrorism. Propaganda produced by Combat 18 was among the literature along with documents on how to make weapons, bombs and poisons. Because of the nail bombs Humberside police officers were forced to cordon off the area while their search was carried out.
In his notebook Gilleard had written: "...we are at war. And it is a war that we are losing badly. Unless we the British Right stop talking of racial war and take steps to make it happen we will never get back that which has been taken from us." He also wrote of attacking "reds" with home-made grenades, echoing nazi bomber, David Copeland, who was jailed for life for murder in 1999, (see
Statewatch Vol. 9 nos 3 & 4, Vol. 10 no 2, 3 & 4). The Leeds jury found Gilleard guilty of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist attacks and collecting information for terrorist purposes.
The BPP was launched in September 2005 and is run by former British National Party organisers Eddie Morrison and Kevin Watmough. The latter also runs the notorious
Redwatch website, which publishes photographs and personal information on political opponents in order to target them for attack. The party is committed to British nazism, white separatism and the implementation of the "fourteen words": "We must secure the existence of our race and the future for white children". It stood a few candidates in the May 2006 council elections, without winning any seats and it has not contested any elections since then.
Yorkshire Post 25, 26.6.08