“Lone wolf” terrorist with BNP links gets 11 years

Terrance Gavan

Gavan is serving eleven years for terrorism

Terence Gavan, formerly an active member of the BNP, has been sentenced to eleven years behind bars after he admitted making nail and ball bearing bombs at his West Yorkshire home. (The BBC report).

“Lone wolf” bombers are often linked to neo-fascist organisations like to BNP and Combat 18, though these organisations tend to deny or downplay these links. This case is different. Searchlight has been monitoring this case for some time and they claim that Gavan not only was a BNP member, he also held gold membership with the membership number 130757.

Simon Darby, deputy chairman of the BNP and Stoke Central parliamentary candidate, gave a bizarre analysis to the Daily Telegraph:

“If people are going to build up large arsenals then they will get stiff sentences. It’s the inevitable consequence of enforced multiculturalism. You are going to get more and more incidents like this. It sounds like this was a lucky escape.”

2009 saw an increase in the number of neo-fascist violence and attempted terrorist attacks. Several had a connection to the BNP, though mostly quite tenuous. Neil Lewington was an example of this. Although Lewington was a member of C-18, he was not a member of the BNP. Gavan, however, is the real deal and a member of the BNP.

Darby’s words to the Telegraph suggest the BNP believe that Gavan’s crime was to stockpile weapons to kill ethnic minorities. He also says that unless the Establishment wakes up to the effects of multiculturalism, more violence could happen.

Notice, however, how Darby believes that Gavan should not claim personal responsibility for his own actions. In the neo-racist mindset of the BNP, Gavan is a “victim” of multiculturalism and forced integration. The hypocrisy of this is that if Gavan was a Muslim, Darby and Griffin would call him a traitor. Darby should condemn white nationalist terrorism in same terms he would if it was a Jihadi.  

There are many problems with multiculturalism but those who are concerned about our society should take their frustration out at the ballot box or through debate and not through terror and violence.

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68 Responses to ““Lone wolf” terrorist with BNP links gets 11 years”

  1. Sam Pauli says:

    Terrorist!do the bnp still support hanging terrorists?we have our first dangler

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  2. Robert says:

    The fact is that I can’t imagine Darby losing any sleep if Gavan had managed to complete his terrorist mission.

    The BNP may have changed its message and some of its ideas, but at its core it still remains the same: Scargilite racism.

    Vote BNP if you want to see violence increase, economic policies that hurt the poor and a defence policy that puts lives at risk.

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  3. WTF says:

    I must admit this is the first I have heard of him but he was stupid & pays the price, I’d support hanging if he killed innocent people but politicians hmm I don’t know….
    But who was he going to attack?
    Had he issued his threats or a suicide video?

    We have plenty of politicians who have blood on their hands but of course they aren’t caught with explosives or a smoking gun, they get someone else to do their dirty work.
    But we live in hope they get a one way ticket to the Hague sometime soon.

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  4. WTF says:

    “Vote BNP if you want to see violence increase, economic policies that hurt the poor and a defence policy that puts lives at risk.”

    I think voting for the mainstream parties will certainly achieve that, it certainly has recently!
    Change you won’t believe in.

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  5. Gonfra says:

    Or Vote for Labours ongoing warcrimes and ACTUALLY kill thousands of people, many innocent women and children and then divert the attention away from genocide by pointing to anyone who doesnt agree with your views.

    Blair/Brown and Bush put our troops on foreign soil and they literally get away with murder!

    Pull our troops home and man the borders!

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  6. WTF says:

    The dear old BBC are saying that he was a BNP member for a year only & had no plans to use his hoard, he had owned the explosives for 10 years already?
    It was quite a collection of stuff & some of it would be dangerous in the wrong hands.
    He was said to be unstable but no mention of other convictions.
    He was ex army so was possibly trained in the handling of such things & he had a manual of some sort.
    I would assume he was the type who thought a race war would break out & then he would use his weapons at that point.

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  8. AussieAl says:

    The bloke is obviously unhinged, and it is a relief to have him neutralised.

    However, NB and Maurice are once again speaking through their rectums. I am linked to the BNP and i have no intention of employing violent means to further my opinion. When is NB going to recognise that the BNP is a legitimate and democratic political party, and those who vote for the BNP are as much part of the democratic political process as a voter who wastes the vote on the big 3.

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  9. Sam Pauli says:

    dont subscribe to bnp lies

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  10. WTF says:

    I subscribe to BNP truth Sam!

    But again it is a case that this criminal is tied to the BNP but other criminals aren’t usually tied to a political party in this way.
    Did the BNP make him this way or was it the army?
    Probably not.
    He got some training from the army & probably gravitated to the BNP because of their supposed reputation in the media but found it wasn’t as extreme as he hoped for & so he went it alone, got stocked up for the “black winter” ahead?

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  11. Edmund says:

    The BNP refusing to either confirm or deny his status as an (I’d hope) ex-BNP member is hardly painting them in the best light. In the last 11 years we’ve had three convicted right-winger bombers or attempted bombers (and before anyone says anything, I know there have been more Muslim terrorists), only one of which has had no BNP connection. Whether or not the BNP are making them extremists, surely the party should be worried people like this have been part of the party. Whether or not you’re anti-immigration I don’t think there’s a defence for a guy with 54 homemade explosives in his house.

    I’m interested NB didn’t make more out of Griffin’s Haiti comments though, I doubt 50,000 (which is the LOWEST estimate of the Haiti deathtoll) will die in the UK this winter, and comments like his in my opinion were ill-timed and in more than a little bad taste

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  12. WTF says:

    Well the BBC did he say he was a member for a year & I think that year was sometime ago but as the BBC are known for being a bit partial, maybe that is wrong?
    Yes maybe the BNP should be a bit more forthright about his status.
    Well he turned out not to have a defence as the guilty verdict shows.

    As I say if the BNP are painted by the media as extremists then inevitably you will attract some extremists, but if it turned out that the BNP were actively recruiting extremists, as the jihadists do, say from prison etc then that would really be a story.

    But I think the BNP are trying to attract mainstream voters not extremist ones.

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  13. jason norris says:

    Before Edmund and co go off on one, in fact too late because they have already done so! The current ” government ” have put into power in northern ireland people who not only were found with arms, explosives etc but actually USED them, yes, they are now nice folk who now chatter with the govt. and associated lackeys.Edmund, I told you before, get a grip of yourself or go and see a shrink.How can you possibly attack the guy whenever the terrorist che guevara lovvies are in government in north ireland.I do not mean to insult you but for the love of pollys sheep see a bit of sense.

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  14. WTF says:

    Ah but Jason it is a question of the right sort of terrorist, you know, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter & all that, like Saint Mandela but don’t mention Winnie.

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  15. jason norris says:

    Winnie had a penchant for necklacing.

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  16. WTF says:

    Yes they used to say “Free Nelson but lock up Winnie” or “Free Nelson with every 5 gallons of petrol”!

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  17. jason norris says:

    She also had a penchant for toy boys. But there again, at least she was fond of the real thing, no dyke shoes or sea cruises for her!

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  18. Edmund says:

    I’m not defending the PIRA IF they are still armed (I’m yet to be convinced they are), but the PIRA isn’t a defence for a guy having 54 homemade explosives hidden in his house. He almost certainly fully intended to employ them, we should be thanking our lucky stars he was stopped before he could become another Copeland.

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  19. Edmund says:

    My only slight question about the case is where the hell was he hiding that much armament without anyone (including I assume the mother he lived with) noticing it?

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  20. WTF says:

    I guess Edmund, some mothers are a bit indulgent?

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  21. Edmund says:

    Well, you’d have to hope his mother was ignorant of his stash, I’d be rather disturbed if she’d known about it and kept quiet.

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  22. AussieAl says:

    I am guessing that the Nationalist policies of the BNP appealed to him, in the absence of any other party. The BNP dont make people into extremists; if anything, their presence tempers hotheads, as at least they can now express themselves at the ballotbox.

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  23. Sam Pauli says:

    its the same old disney tale from the bnp.IF you support the bnp and are armed to the teeth,youre just a concerned nationalist.IF you dont support the racial ideoligies of the bnp,you are therefore a terrorist.double standards from the fascists,well that is a shock!NOT

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  24. WTF says:

    How did he get caught though?

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  25. Sam Pauli says:

    Lets face it ,these commando Rambo wannabees arent blessed with brain cells ,are they.Thats why they re attracted to extreme policies like those of the bnp

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  26. WTF says:

    Mind you some other parties members don’t exactly display ownership of braincells either.

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  27. Sam Pauli says:

    i ve yet to see them prancing about fields armed to the teeth pretending to be JohnRambo,although maybe down south this is a regular occurrence,what do i know

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  28. WTF says:

    You never seen Gordon or Dave in camouflage on the news?

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  29. Sam Pauli says:

    he was just playing at it,this maniac above intended to kill people,still the bnp are trying to stir up a racial war,but be careful what you wish for

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  30. jason norris says:

    Edmund,get a life you tosser. The graveyards are full of ira victims all over the uk. Right beside my grandparents grave in fife is a grave to a murdered soldier. I am sorry to say you are a symptom of all that is wrong with our other side. What a statement you have said. You are an ultra blairite. Look up some of the military sites by the way and you will see that military items are a growing interest. Just because he liked guns etc didnt mean he was going to use them. That is like accusing a man of being armed with a cock! That would suit the dykes etc, and probably you.

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  31. WTF says:

    Ah but who was playing at it & which maniac actually killed people?
    The lone wolf sat on his arsenal, so to speak, for 10 years but yes he might well have gone “postal” at some point & killed people.

    Remember it is OK if a politician or president does something & wins the war but Nuremberg or the Hague if you don’t.
    But for your average citizen you are a jihadist or a lone wolf!

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  32. WTF says:

    I am very careful what I wish for as I am very aware of it becoming true!

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  33. jason norris says:

    After the Dunblane massacre the immediate Blairite response was to take away all legal firearms, this was a typical soundbite reaction to suit the chattering classes. Shooting is a popular sport and there is a growing interest in weapons. Yes, this is a big crime and a threat to the nation as a whole! Never mind the criminals are armed to the teeth, but plod is too busy to look at that as the illegal parkers are priority.The Dunblane incident could just as easily have been carried out by use of petrol. But there you go, ban anything that those wankers do not understand when living in their ivory towers, using expense sheets for toilet paper and chattering eu piffle.

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  34. jason norris says:

    There does seem to be a plot to make male persons more feminine, by that way they became sodomite minded and only attack by arse bending. If someone has a hobby such as military items, guns, bayonets etc they are immediately identified as potential massacre perpetrators. This ,coupled with the lib dems insane suggestion that sodomy appear normal has convinced the sensible voter to vote BNP. There really is no other option. Unless of course you want your son to become a sodomite and thereby less danger to the chattering class.

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  35. WTF says:

    I think it is an UN policy that civilians don’t have access to guns & each country has tried to gradually enforce that.
    Crime reduction & the like is given as a reason but doesn’t actually work.
    Why is so much about Dunblane secret?
    A lot of high profile incidents seem to be used to advance an agenda.
    An unarmed population is much more easy to control, don’t you think?
    We have more terrorism now & have to rely on the state to protect us but who is going to protect us from the state?

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  36. jason norris says:

    Correct, there is an active agenda against the ordinary law abiding citizen having access to a firearm. But try and disarm the hoodies etc, tut tut too dangerous, against elf and safety! Far better to have classes extolling the virtues of sodomite behaviour.

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  37. Edmund says:

    Oh sorry, obviously law abiding citizens hide home-made nail bombs in their houses all the time. You don’t make nail bombs or have 12 guns (which is more than most gun-loving Americans possess) without having some intention to use them. Maybe he and Copleand were a couple of madmen who just happened to have BNP connections, but if I was the party I’d want pretty quickly to make sure they WERE the only two.

    I meant no offence to victims of the IRA, apologies if it sounded as if I did.

    I don’t think society now is perfect, but I don’t think brainwashing everyone to your idea of “normal” is going to make it any better jason.

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  38. jason norris says:

    Edmund,tell me this, now think about it before you reply, how is it that moslems can chastise their kids at home whenever native brits get prosecuted? Now is so happens that I agree with the moslems, if kids get naughty they should get ” a whack ” but I want you to tell me why the difference? You keep on harping about equality so why the difference? Could it be that new labour are now running scared of the moslems? Of course they are ,we all know they are , but please tell me the difference? If you agree to this difference then go and swim the channel, if you do not agree then vote BNP. Every day these sickoes utter pure crap, but it keeps on getting worse, never better.

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  39. Edmund says:

    I certainly don’t agree with that difference, but I don’t agree with the BNP’s fix for it either. While I agree with corporal punishment (to a point) I don’t think beating your kids should be acceptable whoever you are or whatever religion you believe in. My views of the BNP certainly aren’t as extreme as Sam’s, I don’t think you’re all Nazi’s, and I certainly think (or hope) that people like Copeland and Gavan were lone madmen rather than representative of the whole party.

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  40. jason norris says:

    Edmund, so you do agree that there is an imbalance. That is progress. What do you intend to do about it?

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  41. Edmund says:

    I don’t know, I would love to know the answer, would probably run for MP if I did. I don’t think changing who its imbalanced against makes things better though.

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  42. WTF says:

    To be honest being MP probably wouldn’t work as you have to follow the party line or as an independent you would be too weak.
    If you could make yourself rich somehow then use the money on things you support, that is where the real power is.
    Rich people or corporations lobby for what they want, use their money to steer things.

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  43. Davey says:

    What about Croydon tory councillor Maria Gatland and her IRA membership or is anti-British terrorism not as serious as pro-British terrorism?!

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  44. Edmund says:

    What difference is there? Surely they are as bad as each other. I don’t buy the idea that Gavan wasn’t planning to use those explosives. You don’t make nail bombs for fun…at least no-one in their right mind makes nail bombs for fun.

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  45. Davey says:

    What about the 2 muslim scumbags caught red-handed who were building bombs to use against BNP members?

    Why did they get acquitted?

    Two teenagers who were accused of discussing a plot to blow up British National Party (BNP) members have been cleared of terror charges.

    Waris Ali, 18, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was found not guilty of three counts of possession of an article for a terrorist purpose.

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  46. Edmund says:

    I’m not defending them Davey, I wouldn’t defend anyone planning any kind of bomb attack. My point was the idea he had these guns and bombs and had no intention of using them is stretching logic a little.

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  47. Davey says:

    Why were those muslim rats who intended to commit terrorist acts against a group of individuals, caught in possession of bomb-making instructions, ingredients and equipment allowed to walk free?

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  48. Edmund says:

    Davey, not being a judge or a law student I can’t answer that question.

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  49. Sam Pauli says:

    War War War the inglush obsession.

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  50. WTF says:

    Oh I thought it was Jaw, Jaw, Jaw on here?

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  51. Sam Pauli says:

    WTF even a rational person,such as yourself,must take stock occasionally and squirm about this ingurlish obsession with war and death and killing and bombing.

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  52. WTF says:

    I thought Islam had a thing about “war and death and killing and bombing”?

    I am guilty of watching “Battle of the Bulge” for the umpteenth time over Christmas if that counts?

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  53. jason norris says:

    The fact about Islam is if one goes by the Koran ,what it preaches is similar to Christianity. It is the people who corrupt those words that are to blame.On either side.

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  54. Edmund says:

    I don’t think Gavan was doing it for religious reasons, or if he was he was keeping very quiet about it.

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  55. WTF says:

    I don’t think he was religous either, he had a lot of pent rage & paranoia & decided to prepare for something.

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  56. Edmund says:

    I personally think, whether or not people agree with the reasons he was angry, people of all persuasions should be glad someone tipped off the police before he could put his plan into action. Odds are we wouldn’t have got quite as lucky as with Copeland and only have have four deaths.

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  57. WTF says:

    Apparently he had no plan, I don’t know how he was found out, I assume someone saw his collection & went “WTF” & called the police?

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  58. Edmund says:

    Well I’d like to think that would be the reaction of most sane people if they found a collection like that.

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  59. jason norris says:

    Polly rattles on about death, killing etc. It has always, and always will be part of life. That is a fact. Nations now can nearly do what they like as long as they do not attack the big four.You cannot beat a good war film, or Big John riding with the 7th cavalry. Polly should be an avid fan because they always sang irish rebel songs.You know the sort, famine, cromwell, the black and tans, the ruc, the ric, the udr, the british army, the royal air force, the royal navy, the royal family, the union flag british pork pies etc.

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  60. jason norris says:

    Forgot about the song by Orbinson ” crying “, polly should be good at that.

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  61. acorn says:

    He doesn’t seem to mind violence when it is aimed against the BNP…

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  62. jason norris says:

    No, that is different.All commos abide. by the saying ” power comes from the barrel of a gun “.

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  63. Sam Pauli says:

    HA HA HA feckin brilliant what a sad bunch of paranoid freaks the fascists really are.jaylord not 100% sure but i think the ulster “loyalists”sing about rifles and pistols in their hands,but of course that allowed ,after all they kill in the name of a german monarch and a fictional man in heaven.hypocrisy,read jaylord and a-con.perfect cell-mates(padded)

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  64. jason norris says:

    Polly, could you please go and see your local pp as you need sorted out.In the meantime, do not forget to VOTE BNP.rp7w

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  65. Sam Pauli says:

    no i ll leave the bnp voting to sad little inglunders such as yourself,it gives you the feeling that you really can make the difference.in reality you know you are and always will be a nobody,another peasant willing to die to keep the working class where they belong,you are cannon fodder for the over priviliged and the over rated,thats fine,the scary thing is you d be HAPPY to die for it,Happy to be paraded through wooton basset,happy for the professional mourners to turn out for you.then youd be forgotten the next day,just another statistic.you go for it jay boy,die happy.

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  66. jason norris says:

    Polly, I do count myself as a peasant, but I do not need money, jewels etc to be british. It is my birthright of which I am proud. If I was asked today to serve Queen and Country I would so immediately. If I pay the ultimate sacrifice so be it. I certainly would be forgotten the next day but that is of no consequence. You see this is what being british means, not what you have in your heart, the politics of greed, envy and avarice.You will do well in the eu.

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  67. Sam Pauli says:

    ha ha ha ha ha feckin absolutey brainwashed by the ruling classes,superb,and he calls me a sheep.if carlsberg did irony jay boy would be their P.R. man

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  68. Sam Pauli says:

    All the poppies in the world wont bring them back,and thats a fact

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