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Simon Sheppard | |
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| Born | Simon Guy Sheppard 1957 (age 66–67) Hull, England |
| Political party | British National Party |
| Criminal status | Prisoner |
| Conviction(s) | Holocaust denial (Netherlands) Inciting racial hatred, child sex offences (UK) |
| Criminal penalty | Imprisoned (Netherlands, 1995) Imprisoned (UK, various dates) |
Simon Guy Sheppard[1] (born 1957) is a British far-right extremist from Hull, England, who runs a number of websites that promote misogynist and antisemitic doctrines. His main website contains many articles about women, the multiracial society, and Jews, stating that they have negative effects upon western society and for white males in particular.
He has been prosecuted three, and imprisoned four times for his ideology: in the Netherlands for disseminating Holocaust denial propaganda in 1995, in the UK for inciting racial hatred in 1999 and 2000 for a British National Party (BNP) election leaflet, and again in the UK between 2008 and 2011 for publishing material on the Internet that was in breach of racial hatred legislation, after having been subject to a number of raids by police. He was released on licence after serving less than half his sentence to a bail hostel on 17 May 2011 and was banned from accessing the Internet.[2] He was rearrested in January 2013 for breach of his licence conditions and returned to prison in Northallerton.[3]
- ^ Sheppard & Anor, R v 2010 EWCA Crim 65 (29 January 2010). BAILII: England and Wales Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) Decisions.
- ^ Robyn Rosen (12 May 2011). "Race hate website man's jail release". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
- ^ Sonia Gable, "Race hate internet warrior Simon Sheppard returns to prison" Archived 29 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Searchlight, 7 February 2013.