British Nationalist Party seeks to make a martyr of activist killed by Muslim elder

The British National Party sought yesterday to present the killing of one ofits activists by a Muslim elder as an act of white martyrdom.
On the steps of Stafford Crown Court, Michael Coleman, a BNP councillor andorganiser of the party’s Stoke-on-Trent branch, said: “We advise anybody whogets angry: get involved with the BNP.” He was speaking at the end of thetrial into the killing of Keith Brown, 52, a former boxer and friend of theBNP leader Nick Griffin, who collapsed and died after being knifed in theback by his next-door neighbour Habib Khan. Mr Griffin attended his funeral.

Khan, 50, was unanimously cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughterafter a jury heard that he had endured racism, threats and violence from MrBrown and his son, Ashley Barker, also a BNP activist. Khan was alsoconvicted of wounding Mr Barker, 20. His son, Azir Habib Saddique, 24, wascleared of the same charge. Khan’s sentencing was adjourned.