Racists target boys who staged meeting

Nick Griffiths | Friday, 8 September 2006 Source: News and Star

TWO teenagers who took on the far-right British National Party in its bid to gain a foothold in west Cumbria have been targeted on a sinister racist website.

Duncan Money's photograph, home address, telephone number and email address have been published on an extremist site billing itself as a "bulletin for white nationalists".

The site also promises the details of Jonathan Wood, 17, who co-organised and held an anti-BNP public meeting with Duncan last week, will also be posted online soon.

Its home page prominently displays the slogan: "Remember places, traitors' faces, they'll all pay for their crimes."

The efforts of Duncan and Jonathan, who are both from Maryport, have also been singled out on another website billing itself as standing for "white pride worldwide."

This comes after 50 people attended an anti-BNP meeting set up by the two teenagers in Maryport.

They organised it because they were concerned when the far-right group held a meeting in the town with a view to creating its own Allerdale branch.

They denounced the BNP as "racist, fascist and useless". The meeting agreed a group should be set up to fight any attempt by the BNP to enter politics in Allerdale.

Duncan, 18, of Maryport, said of the website: "It's like a very, very thinly veiled threat. It's cowardly and pathetic. We are two teenagers from Maryport and we've managed to enrage the far right just by holding a meeting.

"We didn't say anything inflammatory. It is an amazing over reaction.

"It tells you something about the organisations we are dealing with."

Duncan, who was head boy at Netherhall School last year, admitted the move was worrying. "But I'm mainly worried for my family," he added.

"I'm moving away to university soon but the details are on there of my house. It's basic intimidation.

"We've had an amazing amount of local support. I've had phone calls, people congratulating me in the street.

"This website has not put me off. If anything, it makes me more likely to oppose them."

The website publishing the details claims it does not encourage violence and posts personal details so racists can "identify opponents who may seek to cause them harm."

A Cumbria police spokesman said: "We are aware of this website."

The BNP has its roots in the ultra-right wing National Front.