BNP leader due in court on race-hate charges

The leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP) is due in court today to face charges of inciting racial hatred.

The leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP) is due in court today to face charges of inciting racial hatred.

Nick Griffin (45) was charged after the BBC screened a secretly filmed documentary that showed him making racist comments.

The BNP leader will appear at Leeds Magistrates Court. The party's founder, John Tyndall (70), who was also charged with making racist comments in the broadcast, will also appear.

The men were arrested last December after The Secret Agentshowed BNP members boasting of assaulting Muslims.

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Secretly recorded footage showed a BNP member expressing a wish to blow up mosques with a rocket launcher and to machine-gun worshippers with "about a million bullets".

Another member told how he put dog faeces through the letterbox of an Asian-owned shop; a third described how he had beaten up a Muslim man. Other footage showed Mr Griffin railing against the Koran.