And yet another Yorkshire BNP criminal

| Saturday, 29 March 2008 Source: Kirklees Unity

It is getting hard to keep up with the felons that call themselves the BNP.

On 17 March at Leeds Magistrates' Court John Powell was found guilty of assault by beating of, it is believed, his wife.

Powell who stood as a BNP candidate in Beeston & Holbeck in 2004, Garforth and Swillington in 2006 and Killingbeck and Seacroft in 2007 received a 12 month community order.

It is not known whether the BNP in Leeds intends to stand Powell again in this May's council elections.

Of course Powell isn't the first BNP member to raise his hand to his wife.

Brian Turner from Burnley was convicted of attacking his wife and a police officer whilst a councillor yet the BNP refused to disown him. In fact they even defended him by issuing a statement saying: “we are not in the business of persecuting our members because the state considers someone guilty”.

Brave patriots attacking women.

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Don't forget David Enderby, the BNP's councillor in Redditch, who was found guilty of three counts of assault by beating in January 2007 at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court. Enderby had entered his mother-in-law's house during a birthday party despite his estranged wife and her mother telling him not to.

Mrs Enderby said he swore and glared at her, then grabbed her mother by the arms and pushed her aside to get inside. He then pushed Mrs Enderby into the wall saying, “I have had enough of you, I am going to get you”. Three people suffered bruises in the ensuing struggle before Enderby, a former soldier, was thrown out.