Nazi printer must pay libel damages

| Saturday, 5 November 2005 Source: Searchlight

A solicitor has won £19,000 damages from a nazi who called him a "greedy, incompetent and inefficient tosspot". Anthony Hancock, one of the world's most notorious printers of nazi literature, had subjected Martin Cray, whose firm operates in Brighton, East Sussex, to a two-year campaign of harassment.

Judge John Previte at the High Court in London also made Hancock pay Mr Cray's costs of £81,000.

Known by students of fascism as Teflon Tony, Hancock of Hove has led a charmed life over the past 40 years apart from a fraud conviction.

His current political activities include running the British section of the Historical Review Press. Its current book list includes The Uprising by Colin Jordan, Britain's 82-year-old nazi godfather. Until Hancock started stocking it, Jordan had to rely on the American nazi Gerhard Lauck to sell it offshore for him as even Jordan thought the book might be seen as incitement to race hate.