Published: 19 October 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Kevin Wilshaw was a high-profile figure of the National Front in the 1980s and was speaking at extreme right events as recently as this year.
Speaking to UK Channel 4 News, he explained he had given up his violent past – which included smashing a chair over someone’s head, vandalising a mosque and being arrested for online hate race offences.
He added that he did not have many friends at school and was looking for “comradeship”.
FULL STORY Neo-Nazi leader renounces violent past, quits movement (Independent)