BNP in racist rant to win votes
BNP leader Nick Griffin has launched a “sickening” bid to exploit the racist murder of a black teenager at this week’s European Parliament elections.
In a shocking four-minute video rant, the far-right leader claims the notorious murder of Liverpool teenager Anthony Walker was not racially motivated.
Michael Barton and Paul Taylor were convicted of the hate-fuelled killing in 2005. A court was told they racially taunted Anthony at a bus stop before chasing him to a park where he was attacked with an ice pick. The deadly assault left a two-inch hole in his skull.
The trial judge said he was “sure this attack was racially-motivated and pre-meditated”.
The BNP video, released to party sympathisers and posted on YouTube, was filmed on the exact spot in Huyton’s McGoldrick Park where Anthony died.
Speaking to camera Mr Griffin claims Anthony “was just in the wrong place at the wrong time”. He claimed the media conspired to portray “a racist murder by a racist white estate and people from it, against an innocent black youth”.
He goes on: “The truth is, you talk to anyone round here and they will tell you that wasn’t the case.”
Mr Griffin also brands the decision to install CCTV cameras at the park as “ridiculous, politically-correct expenditure”.
A spokesman for the anti-fascist group Searchlight said: “Nick Griffin’s sickening attempt to smear the memory of Anthony Walker, an innocent boy killed because of the colour of his skin, for his own political purposes, reveals the BNP for what they are: Racist thugs.”
