Face of Hate

Sunday World | Wednesday, 14 October 2009

THIS is the mouthy BNP chief who spreads race hate across Ulster and had the cheek to complain about the Sunday World.

Today we unmask Kieran Dinsmore – or should we say Kieran Devlin which is his real name – as the British National Party’s regional organiser.

On the infamous BNP list which was leaked last year, he appears as Kieran Devlin but beside his name it says his ‘activist’ name is Dinsmore.

Dinsmore was instrumental in helping set up the BNP’s secret UK wide fundraising nerve centre in east Belfast which is run by right-wing loon the Rev Jim Dowson.

He's also a close pal of BNP leader Nick Griffin and has brought him over for several secret trips to Ulster.

And he makes wild claims that officers from the Special Branch have tried to recruit him as a tout!

Dinsmore, who lives in Bangor, has been working in the shadows for the last five years to promote the BNP and their anti-immigrant message.

Despite making a bizarre complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about us, which he lost, where Dinsmore argued the BNP is a legitimate political party he remains reluctant to stand up in public and proudly profess his love for the BNP.

Indeed for a regional organiser of a political party you would think he would want as much press coverage as possible.

But not Dinsmore - in fact when we called to his door for a chat the 6 foot activist hid behind his bedroom curtains and refused to answer the door and took great care not to be photographed.

Perhaps that explains why he hasn’t done too well recruiting new members here - in fact Ulster has clearly said ‘No’ to the BNP!

Despite dropping tens of thousands of race hate leaflets across Ulster he has amassed a grand total of 30 paid up members – and that’s during a period when Ulster has welcomed more immigrants than ever before.

Embarrassingly for Dinsmore, there are 28 members in the Republic of Ireland, and though he has tried to forge a union with the southern racehate mob the plans were ditched because they just couldn’t get on!

Earlier this year Dinsmore told the BNP website that he had helped distribute 4000 leaflets in Mid-Ulster alone.

He said: “This area was chosen because the mid-Ulster area has the largest populations of migrant workers and asylum seekers in Northern Ireland.”

He also claims, “the people of Ulster are steadily waking up to the fact that the BNP’s message has been correct all along.”

Four years ago the Sunday World revealed how the BNP had launched a fresh campaign to attract more members to the party.

Hate-filled posters were put up in the Castle Leisure Centre in Bangor claiming Northern Ireland could be swamped by “greedy” Muslims if action wasn’t taken quickly.

Those posters were put up by Dinsmore and his few mates.

When we ran the story about how the leisure centre manager was “appalled” at the posters, we also put in Dinsmore’s mobile number,which was advertised on the poster.

The week after Dinsmore sent the Sunday World a Christmas card thanking us for being the best recruiting sergeant he could have wished for.

But sadly Dinsmore – just like his party’s pathetic propaganda – was being economical with the truth as the Ulster branch of the party is widely regarded as an embarrassment to the rest of the party due to its lack of members.

We’ve seen emails from Dinsmore where he has been seeking candidates to stand for the BNP in Ulster but has had no luck.

In those emails he states that he can’t stand himself because of his “past”.

In previous elections BNP leader and recently elected MEP, Nick Griffin, has stated he plans to launch an electoral assault on Northern Ireland but then never bothers.

Last year Dinsmore told the party’s website that the police tried to recruit him as a tout when two plain clothes officers followed him home from work and asked him for some information on an Ulster BNP member.

He apparently refused adding: “I know their game – all friendly and reasonable to start with, but once they’ve got you to give them just a few scraps of harmless information, they use a mixture of threats and bribes to force you to tell them anything they want.”

Dinsmore was instrumental in helping set up the BNP’s secret money-making operation in east Belfast.

As we reported in June the party decided to locate their UK wide money making operation in a non-descript office tucked away in an industrial estate in Dundonald.

We managed to infiltrate the office where we found around a dozen people working in a call centre which used the bizarre cover of a plumbers firm owned by their rent-a-cause boss Jim Dowson who has been a rabid anti-abortion campaigner in the past.

Last year Dinsmore, who’s family come from the north east of England, complained to the PCC after we wrote an article stating that a BNP member was responsible for a series of race attacks in north Antrim.

Jumping to the defence of the party Dinsmore cried to the PCC that we had “sullied” the name of the BNP, which is a bit rich considering his own leader has a conviction for a race hate crime.

Meanwhile the man in charge of fundraising, Dowson, has a list of criminal convictions including breach of the peace in 1986, possession of a weapon and breach of the peace in 1991 and criminal damage in 1992.