It's that BNP membership list again...Dyfed-Powys Police said the two people were arrested as part of a joint investigation with the Information Commissioner's Office. They are due to appear in Nottingham Magistrates Court on September 1.
The far-right BNP called for a police investigation last November after the names, addresses and contact details of some 10,000 of its members were published online.
Independent
Dyfed-Powys Police said the pair were arrested under the Data Protection Act as part of a joint investigation with the Information Commissioner's Office. They are due to appear in Nottingham Magistrates Court on September 1.
The far-right BNP called for a police investigation last November after the names, addresses and contact details of some 10,000 of its members were published online. Party leader Nick Griffin lodged a complaint with Dyfed-Powys, his local force, on the grounds that publishing the list breached human rights and data protection laws. He described the publication as "a disgraceful act of treachery" by former BNP staff members who were subsequently sacked.
At the time the BNP said the leak was based on its 2007 membership list. It featured details of some members' jobs and was reported to include serving and former police officers, as well as members of the armed forces.
In a statement, Dyfed-Powys Police said: "We can confirm that the two people arrested in relation to alleged criminal offences under the Data Protection Act have been charged with Section 55 Data Protection Act offences. The arrests followed an investigation into a complaint received about the unauthorised release of the BNP party membership list."
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Word has it that they're remanded in custody until the 1st September.
Sadie and Matt?
They've got good grounds for arguing over their guilt in court because it is NOT the membership list.
So what penalties would they face if found guilty?
"Sadie and Matt?"
Presumably. Unless it's Nick Griffin and Jim Dowson.
Sadie and Matt are both remanded in custody.
So Griffin will do all he can to have these silly bastards done and jailed and he won't give a fuck about their kid or their future. If he hadn't treated them like utter shite in the first place, none of this would have happened. Not that I believe it was them anyway - I think it was Griffin himself.
The evidence in court is mostly going to be around the fact that the list is on their computers and they were connected to the Blogger page it appeared on, in that they could sign in. If I was them, I would deny everything. Griffin's henchmen - Reynold's and Kemp among them - snatched the computers back and could have done ANYTHING with them. Even changing the dates of files is easy. This whole thing stinks and just for once I'm on the side of Sadie and Matt.
The Indie has a new report up where they name Sadie Graham as probably the woman concerned but they don't say anything about the man. Perhaps it's not Matt Single.
Man and woman charged with BNP membership leak
By Daniel Davies, Press Association
Friday, 21 August 2009
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A man and a woman have been charged under the Data Protection Act after a British National Party membership list was leaked onto the internet, police said today.
Dyfed-Powys Police said the man, aged 27, and woman, aged 30, were due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates Court on 1 September.
The woman is understood to be Sadie Graham, who was expelled from the far-right party in late 2007 after falling out with its leadership.
The BNP called for a police investigation last November after the names, addresses and contact details of some 10,000 of its members were published online.
Party leader Nick Griffin lodged a complaint with Dyfed-Powys, his local force, on the grounds that publishing the list breached human rights and data protection laws.
He described the publication as "a disgraceful act of treachery" by former BNP staff members who were subsequently sacked.
At the time the BNP said the leak was based on its 2007 membership list, although a number of names of people who were not members had been added.
The list, which included details of some members' jobs, was reported to include serving and former police officers as well as members of the armed forces.
In a statement, Dyfed-Powys Police said: "We can confirm that the two people arrested as part of a joint investigation with Dyfed-Powys Police and the Information Commissioner's Office in relation to alleged criminal offences under the Data Protection Act have been charged with Section 55 Data Protection Act offences.
"They will appear in Nottingham Magistrates Court on 1 September.
"The arrests followed an investigation into a complaint received about the unauthorised release of the BNP party membership list."
"Party leader Nick Griffin lodged a complaint with Dyfed-Powys, his local force, on the grounds that publishing the list breached human rights and data protection laws."
I did,nt realise Griffin was a fan of human rights???
Isn't it about time there was an updated list released to the public?
You loved that the list was leaked. Until you realised it proved that members were from all walks of life, including teachers lawyers etc: You just can't win can you.
Yet redwatch has been releasing personal details for years and has never been shut down, nor has the vile police informer Kevin Whatmuff ever been done for running it.
Well, good luck to Matt and Sadie, I hope they get off. They should get out of jail just in time for Christmas but if they walk free, Rochdale has got its Christmas lights up early.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2009/aug/21/christmas-lights-rochdale
'Until you realised it proved that members were from all walks of life, including teachers lawyers etc'
There are racists everywhere. It won't stop us fighting your shitty little party and your corrupt leader.
"You loved that the list was leaked."
Yep. It was fucking funny seeing Nick Griffin, the fat nazi bastard, bleating on about human rights.
Amazing. Nick Griffin will chase these two silly bastards to the ends of the earth to get his revenge on them but he won't allow anyone to have a go at the noncy-boys Collett and Hannam. Weird.
Who's up for going to court on September 1st?
Frankly fuck em. They're nazis and I hope they end up in jail.
"10,000 of its members"
They haven't got 10,000 members even now according to Tina Wingfield.
Wasn't there data on the membership list that was dated several months after they were kicked out of the party?
The court should ask 'Cui bono?' It certainly wasn't Sad and Matie.
THE COURT CASE
Lee barnes LLb Hons
"I put it to you sadie Graham that did last year without malice of forethought or forethought of malice, cough! cough!, I think M'lord you know what I mean wink! wink! did release the BNP membership list did you not?
Sadie Graham
"No"
Lee barnes LLb Hons
Miss Graham I see you wear eyeglasses, would you like to show the court your eyeglasses?
Sadie takes her glasses out of her bag.
Lee barnes LLb Hons raises his right hand
"Which hand am I raising Miss graham?
Sadie Graham.
"your right hand of course.
lee barnes LLb hons perplexed blushes and looks at the judge.
"M'lord clearly this whole thing is a uaf Cameron backed charade funded by the nuliebour politically correct brigade to try and stop the BNP from getting into power. Miss Graham has clearly had eye surgery and the liberal elite snouts in the trough MPs have paid for it She is M15 state a spy a red and every other cliche that I think makes me sound intelligent.
Judge
"Are you a qualified practitioner of the law Mr barnes?
Lee barnes LLb hons
"it is not me who is on trial here M'lord and on that basis I would like to declare a mistrial"
Judge
"Listen you little racist piece of pantie waste, why dont you go and fuck off with the bloated one eyed fat guy over there, meet your half brained dimwits who are protesting outside and never come back here again.
Nick Griffin
"This is a Sharia Court
...it is NOT the membership list.
See where you're coming from but as a number of people, including a police officer, lost their jobs due to their names being on this list don't think it will do whoever leaked it anygood trying that approach.
Still surprised no one named on it has taken legal action against the BNP who are responsible I assume for members details safe keeping.
Maybe it's Sadie Graham and NICK GRIFFIN who are in court!!! SG for being an idiot and NG just for being a nazi twat.
Hang on, I just realised. SG and NG??? Are they related? Oh my God, I've just discovered a whole new conspiracy!
Excuse me, I just need to go and change my trousers.....
Nick Griffin
"This is a Sharia Court"
LOL You can just imagine that.
This case is now sub-Judice. I will report any attempt to prejudice the outcome to the police.
From
Chris Hill
(Lancaster)
'This case is now sub-Judice. I will report any attempt to prejudice the outcome to the police.'
Nobody is trying to prejudice anything. Fuck off, Hill.
"I will report any attempt to prejudice the outcome to the police."
Better post that also on NWN's forum and SF Britain and Facebook, all got threads on the same story mate
They're NOT in custody. I know that for a fact. They're just remanded until September 1st.
Chris Hill is a traitor to all sides and an informer. He's the very worst vermin you can find. At least we know whose side you lot are on.
@Chris Hill
You won't find many people here wanting to see those two done. On the other hand if it was Nick Griffin in court...
How many readers does your blog get every day Mr Hill? I've forgotten. Have you reached the dizzy heights of 20 yet?
But - but - but - I thought the story was that members were really PROUD to be named on that list, and that it was a roll of honour inscribed in gold and all that.
I'm all discombobulated now.
Worra laff!
Chris Hill
(Lancaster)
Who the hell are you? Some washed-up fifty-odd year old student who could never make up his mind whether to go with the party or the rebels.
"But - but - but - I thought the story was that members were really PROUD to be named on that list, and that it was a roll of honour inscribed in gold and all that."
Good point. Makes you wonder what all the fuss is about.
The man mentioned in these reports is 27. Matt Single is 36 according to an older report I read.
Anyone know who it is yet? Collett?
They never DID have 10000 members, let alone 13000. As a matter of fact, I'd say it's a safe wager that annual paid-up membership never exceeded 2600 at any point in the last decade.
Griffin has become somewhat of a master at making the B.N.P. look much larger than it really is, and when this list was leaked he exploited it for all it was worth. This was no 'membership list' at all, although many current members from back then were certainly listed on it.
The trouble is that so too were many lapsed members, stretching back at least 9 years. The number of people who have joined, or expressed a vague interest in the B.N.P., easily exceed the numbers of 'paid-up members'. I have it on good authority that anyone who requested more information on the B.N.P. via the website or a city center stall would likely be listed amongst the 13000 on this list.
Not only that, the list appeared to include people who had only purchased items from B.N.P. affiliated websites, and even those who had signed B.N.P. or Nationalist-oriented/Hang 'em and flog 'em type digital petitions on various websites.
This list appears to be little more than a list of 'hopefulls' who were contacted through email or snail mail at regular intervals by the B.N.P. with requests for donations.
So when all things are considered, this list looks like it all boils down to the good old pounds, shillings and pence -- and nobody here or in ex-nationalist circles should be surprised about that!!
"How many readers does your blog get every day Mr Hill? I've forgotten. Have you reached the dizzy heights of 20 yet?"
That's a good question. How many readers has THIS blog had today?
'That's a good question. How many readers has THIS blog had today?'
Last Hour 251
Today 1,493 so far
This Week 14,089 so far
'Anyone know who it is yet? Collett?'
Now THAT would be funny.
More protesters last weekend than those they were protesting against, I like it a lot!
This is the beginning of a very painful end for the nazi BNP, I think. Members had better start looking at defecting to the English Democrats or Casuals United I think, though UAF will be ready to take them on as we so dedicatedly do with all other racist organisations within the UK
And Griffin - a hermit's life in Croatia beckons!!!
The clue is the location of the Crown Court handling the case - Nottingham. If Collett was involved it would be either Leicester or Leeds.
Nottingham gives it away, it's Sadie and Matt.
"This case is now sub-Judice. I will report any attempt to prejudice the outcome to the police.
From
Chris Hill
(Lancaster)"
Well that's us told. Fanny Hill sorts Lancaster Unity single-handed. Dozy bastard.
"Still surprised no one named on it has taken legal action against the BNP who are responsible I assume for members details safe keeping."
It's a very valid point butthere's no point in anyone taking such an action - the BNP's more or less bankrupt.
Griffinite Double-Agent Mr Hill joined the webels just so he could spy on them, and gather such evidence for a court case.
Guess which washed-up fifty year old nobody helped to gather the evidence to get Sadie arrested??????
That's why he's so keen to seek a conviction. If the trial fails, Cyclops will flush him down the toilet like the piece of useless crap he is, lol...
There's no loyalty for double-agents and fakes, so the case is Chris Hill's nemasis. No wander the loser felt compelled to post his piss-weak warning on this blog.
I love the BNP. It's so entertaining.
It's a very valid point butthere's no point in anyone taking such an action - the BNP's more or less bankrupt.
Another begging letter went out the other day.
"Last Hour 251
Today 1,493 so far
This Week 14,089 so far"
Wow. Good numbers.
Is this Mark Collett?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6pvJd9WVO4
I see Clive Jefferson has posted about this on his crappy Cumbrian Patriots blog. Will Chris Hill post on there with the same warning? Fucking idiot.
Seems strange why the BNP is almost about to be wound-up while Gri££in is feasting on champers, oysters and fine wine and Cuban cigars.
Yes, Cuban cigars!
Up the Gri££inite Swindling Revolution!
Funny how this hasn't appeared on any other "anti-fascist" site including Hope Not Hate. i think Lancaster uaf is just trying to stir the shit.
So Chris Hill put the case together on behalf of NG.
I was wandering what he was up to, besides signing on the dole.
I believe that...
Cyclops would indeed get rid of Mr Hill if the trial fails to get Sadie convicted.
That's the way his brain works, so be careful all your eggs aren't in the same basket, Mr Hill.
Nasty Nick will be charging a fortune for press interviews about the case, once it's over, if he wins.
More DOSH for the fat cat and still his dumb little loyal BNP sheeple refuse to see the wood for the trees. Griffo is their demigod and since the stolen laptop business failed, this was the revenge he sought against the rebels.
There again, win or lose, everything is a lucrative money-spinning publicity stunt where Griffo is involved.
When will the dimwitted BNP faithful vote with their feet and tell Griffo to get knotted?
Gri££in has a long stading friendship with Dyfed-Powys Police, as a state agent acting in the will of the political establishment.
Word has it, he has a hotline to the local cops station to keep up with Special Branch.
Gri33in is most defo a nark!
Wander what dirt-digging frolics that the rebs can stike back with?
Seeing as it was Griffo himself who leaked the data, the charges, like Sadie's "stolen computer" is all a bastard set-up, and yes, yet another stupid publicity stunt.
Twatface Troll posted recently with the aid of his dick: "i think Lancaster uaf is just trying to stir the shit".
Actually, it's Cyclops who is trying to stir the shit.
He beat the rebels into submission. What more does this greedy, stinking pig farmer want?
Blood from stones.
'Funny how this hasn't appeared on any other "anti-fascist" site including Hope Not Hate.'
No doubt they'll post it when they have the time. That's their business.
'i think Lancaster uaf is just trying to stir the shit.'
What, like Lancaster Unity made it up? Yeah, sure. Bozo.
"M'lord clearly this whole thing is a uaf Cameron backed charade funded by the nuliebour politically correct brigade to try and stop the BNP from getting into power. Miss Graham has clearly had eye surgery and the liberal elite snouts in the trough MPs have paid for it She is M15 state a spy a red and every other cliche that I think makes me sound intelligent."
I like irishtony's courtroom drama. It's shickingly true to life. Lee Barnes really is a pompous conspiracy buff.
I still want to know who has been arrested with Sadie. Kenny Smith anyone?
Fuck the BNP Said:
"I see Clive Jefferson has posted about this on his crappy Cumbrian Patriots blog. Will Chris Hill post on there with the same warning? Fucking idiot."
I say:
No I'm banned from Cumbria blog in the same way as I'm banned from this blog. Both don't like hearing the truth.
From
Chris Hill
(Lancaster)
PS
I'm a student and do not receive any dole or other government assistance.
Comment on the Register
"Charged? They should be rewarded!"
Too true. By the way, will Chris Hill be keeping an eye on the Register too just in case of transgressions?
"No I'm banned from Cumbria blog in the same way as I'm banned from this blog."
Banned from this blog? You fucking moron. You've got two posts in this comment list alone. How does that mean your banned.
It's no wonder you lot came last in Blackpool yesterday. You're so thick.
"Gri33in is most defo a nark!"
hardly, just counts as being 'vunerable'.
Or should I say paranoid :-) He's a legend in his own, and the ?ankers that support him's lunchtime.
He's probably got a button to press but getting to where he lives requires some determinaiton and I've never seen anybody up there as I've passed through.
I think we give him too much credance - he was referred to me a couple of days ago as 'a politician' he's NOT. Just an opportunist harvesting on the fears of others.
The BNP is close to history, forget the state, non state that's illuminate nonsense.
Let's just help it/him along the way!!!!!
I still want to know who has been arrested with Sadie. Kenny Smith anyone?
I don't reckon. Joey Smith/Barber is my gues (just kidding). It's Matt Single(ton). They've just got his age wrong.
"Funny how this hasn't appeared on any other "anti-fascist" site including Hope Not Hate."
Its on Kirklees site, idiot.
No I'm banned from Cumbria blog in the same way as I'm banned from this blog. Both don't like hearing the truth
The far right can bicker amongst themselves blindfolded with one hand tied behind the back and the other adorned with a boxing glove. That's the truth!!!
"I still want to know who has been arrested with Sadie. Kenny Smith anyone?"
Thisisderbyshire now states its Sade Graham-Single and her husband Matt, 27.
"Banned from this blog? You fucking moron. You've got two posts in this comment list alone. How does that mean your banned.
It's no wonder you lot came last in Blackpool yesterday. You're so thick."
And this goop is at Lancaster Uni? Oh dear.
Banned from this blog? You fucking moron. You've got two posts in this comment list alone. How does that mean your banned.
Exactly. Compulsive liars the BNP.
Named here
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews/charged-BNP-membership-leak/article-1274899-detail/article.html
Blimey. What a lot of comments.
It would be bloody funny if they were cleared.
Who really cares! It is just one bunch of nazi scum consuming the other bunch - they are all actually the same and are like a bunch of rabid dogs fighting over an old bone or in this case the financial scraps or the dubious honour of being the leader of the pack of deadbeats.
I hope they all self implode and take all those in their circles up in flames with them.
Disappearing up their own arses is the phrase that comes to mind!!!
I'm puzzled. If there's a Data Protection prosecution justified surely it's against the BNP for maintaining (insecurely) a list which includes non-members, and details of people which go beyond the "need to know"?
If I join a political party I will probably accept their right to hold my details on file (name, address, possibly age, etc.).
I'm very unlikely to allow them details of my occupation or character - yet the BNP seems to have accumulated such data.
Any legal experts care to comment?
And, no, I don't mean Barnes !!
Iliacus has a point. The BNP was gathering a LOT of information about people and lost it - how it was lost doesn't really matter. Surely there's someone in the party who has sympathy with the rebels who is prepared to take this further or are they all gutless?
According to the Times
"Sadie Graham, 30, previously a councillor and organiser, and her husband Matt Single, 27, the BNP’s former security chief, who were expelled from the party, could face a maximum £5,000 fine if convicted."
I wonder how many of their former comrades and friends will have a whip-round for them.
Funny, Chris Hill has just posted on North West Nationalist and hasn't warned them. Idiot.
If anybody has a copy of the Trafalgar list I promise you I will keep it safe and secure and not upload it onto a blog or anything like that.
"Funny how this hasn't appeared on any other "anti-fascist" site including Hope Not Hate.
No doubt they'll post it when they have the time. That's their business."
Yes, we were very much occupied with the successful campaign to ban the English Defence League march in Luton and are busy producing the next issue of Searchlight, but the story is up now.
It has been suggested here that Graham and Single have been remanded in custody. If that had been so, their first appearance in the Magistrates' Court, where they could make a bail application, would be much sooner than 1 September.
Breaking DPA is an arrestable offence?
It'll be interesting if someone asks Griffin under oath how many members the BNP actually does have. It is NOT going to be anywhere near 10,000.
With regards the leaked list case, under Section 55, any person who knowingly or recklessly, without the consent of the data controller, (i.e. the person in lawful control of the database) obtains or discloses personal data or the information contained within such data, is guilty of an offence. Such a conviction carries with it a possible custodial sentence of up to two years.
Was Chris Hill always a pompous prick, or was it only a recent development?
'Was Chris Hill always a pompous prick, or was it only a recent development?'
I think he's a natural.
Anonymous said...
It'll be interesting if someone asks Griffin under oath how many members the BNP actually does have. It is NOT going to be anywhere near 10,000.
I really don't think they know. In one set of accounts a couple of years ago they had two different numbers around the 5500-6000 mark.
People on stormfront are claiming they are above 15000 and pushing 20000 but they would.
The party as a whole spent so much on the Euro elections and raided every cookie jar to get money for that campaign that they are pretty much destitute. £5000 quid deposit and they lost a few and now they can barely fight in local council campaigns, even where they have active groups.
There were four local by-elections on Thursday around the country and they stood in one and came last in Blackpool.
Every by-election they have stood in since June their vote has fallen in comparison to previous results and the ones without comparable data have not been good.
They were lucky to get two MEPs elected, there were not that many votes involved and this is a time where you would expect them to be thriving.
Their accounts are late yet again, their massive party to showcase their breakthrough into mainstream politics had 600 people there including kids and day tickets over a weekend and hopefully the Decemberists or poor Matt&Sadie are going to come out fighting and turn it into a prolonged shitty war between the two sides.
I'm going to sit in a deckchair and offer the popcorn around and hopefully watch something destructive to both sides.
Anonymous said...
Who really cares! It is just one bunch of nazi scum consuming the other bunch - they are all actually the same and are like a bunch of rabid dogs fighting over an old bone or in this case the financial scraps or the dubious honour of being the leader of the pack of deadbeats.
I hope they all self implode and take all those in their circles up in flames with them.
Drink of your choice should we ever meet
Why can't Watmough be arrested over data act breaches on Redwatch?
Won't Special Branch arrest one of their own?
"With regards the leaked list case, under Section 55, any person who knowingly or recklessly, without the consent of the data controller, (i.e. the person in lawful control of the database) obtains or discloses personal data or the information contained within such data, is guilty of an offence. Such a conviction carries with it a possible custodial sentence of up to two years."
Bullshit Darby. The maximum punishment is a FINE only and you know it.
I've always thought of this Chris Hill creep as a bit of a funny character. Still a member of the BNP and hence a shit but really nothing worse than a pompous idiot. Following a post of his on a nationalist site yesterday though, I've changed my mind. He did the same thing he did here, issued a warning about the case being sub judice but ended his warning with this bollocks
"If Matt and Sadie are guilty then Ali is my lord and master, and I'll let the Prophet Mohamed (all curses to his paedophilic carcass) have his evil way with me."
Scum.
If Chris (Fanny) Hill wants to be abused by real peadophiles, he ought to bend down and spread his legs in a bedroom at the New Kimberley.
He wines on like a little girl at times so the likes of Collett and Hannam could always fantasise he is one, lol
http://lancaster-bnp-freespeech.blogspot.com/
I've just noticed, Fanny Hill's picture is of himself as a little child. Kind of goes well with the child abuse fantasies thing, lol.
Collett's paedophilic carcus would quite happily give him one!
The fact that his profile photo is of himself as a little boy says a lot about Chris Hill's sordid fantasies, lol
Not to be forgotten also is the matter of the High Court injunction the Party managed to secure with regards publication of members details. After they released the members lists, so i have been informed that the crown prosection will take this to crown court! And they could get several years in JAIL. lol
If the BNP secure a conviction, does that mean that every member will be able to use the same argument against the BNP for losing their data to claim their £5k?
2 Will go into 1 ask Matt and Sadie
I know my maths Chris Hill .
It will also be interesting if Cyclops or one of his chums is asked, under oath, if the membership details are accurate ?
1/. If yes then a few plods, DWP
staff and service personel will be jobless !
2/. If not perhaps the data registrar will be looking at the BNP Data Registration !
Old Sailor
PS Graham and chums are not heros. Thay wanted to improve the organisation Of Thr British Nonces Party.
The best result would be for them to go down, and the Nutzies fail to recover costs, and fail to pay thier brief and solicitors.
Old Sailor
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