GRAVESEND: Mother at centre of controversial BNP video jailed (From News Shopper)
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GRAVESEND: Mother at centre of controversial BNP video jailed
10:38am Wednesday 9th September 2009 in
A MOTHER of three who was at the centre of a controversial BNP video has been jailed.
Helen Forster, of Park Place, Gravesend, was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court to 11 months in prison for perverting the course of justice and common assault.
The 32-year-old admitted both charges, which related to an incident in Fort Gardens, Gravesend, on May 23.
She was given an additional nine months in jail for breaching a suspended sentence.
In May, Forster was given a 10-month suspended prison term after being convicted of intimidation.
In that case the court heard she had encouraged a group of children to throw eggs and fire an airgun at the home of her neighbour Meherjan Miah, who lives there with her young children.
Following Forster’s conviction for intimidation, it was reported in the media she was a member of the British National Party.
However, Paul Golding, BNP councillor for the Swanley St Mary’s Ward of Sevenoaks District Council, vigorously denied she had ever been a member of his party, calling the reports “outrageous lies”.
In a video, Cllr Golding said Forster "is not a member of the British National Party and she never has been".
He added: “I contacted our membership department and asked them to check all of our records going back many years and she is not on there whatsoever.”
Cllr Golding interviewed Forster in the video and she denied ever being a member of the BNP.
However, News Shopper discovered she was registered as a member of the party under a different name - Helen Colclough.
The video was made as part of Cllr Golding’s Operation Fightback campaign, which aims to expose so-called media lies.
When asked to explain why his video on Forster contained a lie, he said he was unaware she was a member of his party under a different name at the time of making the video.
Comments(19)
boxer
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2:55pm Wed 9 Sep 09
well at least she got somthing right.
rrwfatr
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3:59pm Wed 9 Sep 09
Pete Beat
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6:45pm Wed 9 Sep 09
rrwfatr wrote:This is a free country where we tolerate, ethnic groups, allow ethnic religous groups, so we have to also allow the BNP the right to express their views to.
Boxer maybe you should join her in jail I'm sure they could make room for you. Are you a Nazi? Did you go to their little festival a few weeks ago where they burned dolls representing black people and had a good laugh? Scum
rrwfatr you are lucky to live in a country that allows you to write and express your views, have you been to Pakistan lately?
boxer
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7:37pm Wed 9 Sep 09
my family were bombed during the war by the nazi's, and dodged molten lead in the field of battle.
and no i didn't go the their little party
neather did i go the the notting hill rape/mug fest.
your all the same you flaming racist!
itsafinelife
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7:17am Thu 10 Sep 09
Pete Beat wrote:Well said PeteBeat
rrwfatr wrote: Boxer maybe you should join her in jail I'm sure they could make room for you. Are you a Nazi? Did you go to their little festival a few weeks ago where they burned dolls representing black people and had a good laugh? ScumThis is a free country where we tolerate, ethnic groups, allow ethnic religous groups, so we have to also allow the BNP the right to express their views to. rrwfatr you are lucky to live in a country that allows you to write and express your views, have you been to Pakistan lately?
rrwfatr
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1:15pm Thu 10 Sep 09
boxer
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2:11pm Thu 10 Sep 09
we dont and have never had a democracy.
your sounding like a commy gimp.
go get an education and stop spouting uaf nonsense..
Moi
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3:59pm Thu 10 Sep 09
For example their leader Nick Griffin believes that the holocaust didn't happen;
"In 1998 Nick Griffin said, "I am well aware that the orthodox opinion is that 6 million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades. Orthodox opinion also also once held that the Earth was flat... I have reached the conclusion that the "extermination" tale is a mixture of Allied wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie, and latter witch-hysteria."
The BNP are allowed to voice their atrocious views, but it doesn't mean we have to listen to them. As for the woman in the article, I'm suprised the party didn't feature her on their nice little "propaganda" leaflet for the European elections, instead of stock photos of Americans and Italians.
boxer
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5:29pm Thu 10 Sep 09
it's you who is deluded.
Pete Beat
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6:15pm Thu 10 Sep 09
rrwfatr wrote:Pakistan where the Generals rule.!
All you British Nazi Party supporters are all the same! Is it me are the majority of the supporters of the party been kicked out of primary school. I don't need to go to Pakistan to know it's a democracy. Get some education and come back to us!
Go and make a life there, I am sure you will do well and your wife daughter sister can sit at home all day.
I do not like the BNP but I know what country is the best to live in.
God Save the Queen
Moi
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11:02am Fri 11 Sep 09
That quote is directly from Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP. If you support and vote for the BNP then you endorse such views. If you think the Holocaust didn't happen (among his other delightful utterances), then you are deluded.
Have a quick google of 'BNP Quotes' and educate yourself.
boxer
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11:47am Fri 11 Sep 09
as if all members must have every inch of thought the same as one man in every detial, that is a generalistaion!
im English and proud of it,not a word you hear very much. salt of the earth scotts Irish & Welsh are hard working, underdog supporting honest
caring people. slow to anger.
not everyone has yet woke up to the fact the lab/con/lib parties are all just the same monster but with three heads.
only the bnp said they are going to pull out of this current war.
its not the bnp using depleted uranium war heads, in our name.and the word democracy.
you think that makes people nanzi's?
corporations and bankers gain power & money from war. Imo to finance a war is also a guilty act, and to finance both sides in the same war,did the buck stop a hitler, why? Hmm well you can make your own mind up.
Moi
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2:31pm Fri 11 Sep 09
slmapg
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2:58pm Fri 11 Sep 09
boxer
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6:42pm Fri 11 Sep 09
i dont read tabloids..
funny you didnt mention the using depleted uranium war heads part of my post,or any other point fancy that just more uaf crap.
so your happy about that i take it
or do you just ignore facts if they don't fit with your twisted logic.
londonbornandbred
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6:25pm Mon 14 Sep 09
Genocide is wrong....Fact.
But so is this ridiculous government that has opened the floodgates to all manner of illegal immigrants, draining resources from the people of this once great country. We need to regain some control, and the tired, hardworking backbone of this country (that might I add, descend from a generation that fought for YOUR right to freedom AGAINST the nazi's) are sick to death of no school places, a poor NHS buckled under the immigrant baby boom, poor or no social housing (while immigrants lord it up in 6 bed mansions) and rising crime rates.
How can anyone judge people for voting BNP....what choice are people left with. Labour? Conservative? Lib Dem?
This country needs a party that will take action and unfortunately the BNP are the only party that will. Close the floodgates and lets keep this a multi-cultural society that we should be proud of, but that we can sustain!!!!
annam85
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11:32am Wed 16 Sep 09
duke.york
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9:41am Mon 5 Oct 09
In many countries, where there is internal problems that the government refuses to address, they sometimes manifest in incidents like this.
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Helen Forster was sentence to 11 months in prison
BNP Councillor Paul Golding claimed Helen Forster had never been a member of his party, but she was registered as a member and activist under the name Helen Colclough
Helen Forster denied she was a member of the BNP in Cllr Golding's video
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rrwfatr says...
12:09pm Wed 9 Sep 09