September 02, 2009

BNP candidate banned from driving after refusing breath test

A senior British National Party member was disqualified from driving today after being found guilty of refusing to take a police breathalyser test.

Robert Bailey, 43, of Chadwell Heath, Essex, said he refused to cooperate with officers because he believed they were part of a politically inspired conspiracy acting upon "a higher order".

Havering Magistrates Court, in Romford, Essex, heard Bailey was arrested after being spotted by officers driving along London Road in the town without his lights on at around 11.15pm on May 28. He twice failed to give a proper breath sample at the roadside and then when taken back to Romford Police Station he refused to make another attempt, the court was told. Traffic officers reported smelling drink on his breath and CCTV footage from the station was shown to the court.

Bailey, who was a BNP candidate for London in this year's European elections, refused to speak when asked if he had had a drink. He was warned that refusing to take the breath test could lead to prosecution and was seen on the footage replying: "I'm not going to do that."

The former Royal Marine, originally from Scunthorpe, told the court he believed he was being set up because of his political beliefs. He said: "Well, I spent 14 years in the Marines and spent a good part of this working with the security forces and I know how the system operates."

He added that he believed he was under surveillance because of his political activities and that his phone and house had been bugged. He said: "It adds to my belief it is a conspiracy against me, my party and the indigenous people of this country."

Prosecutor Adebayor Kareem accused him of refusing to take a breath test because it would have shown up that he was drunk behind the wheel. Bailey told the court he had only had one drink earlier in the day but was tired from his election work and had been taking tablets to help him sleep. He said he normally drove a Volvo whose lights come on automatically and he had not realised he was driving without lights. He said: "I dispute strongly that my speech was slurred, that I was drunk and I was unsteady on my feet."

Chris Sweetman, defending Bailey, said his client had a possible personality disorder which made him suspicious of the police and refuse to cooperate with them. He added that Bailey had suffered from depression in the past as well, which may have made him paranoid.

District Judge John Wollard said: "I have heard nothing which establishes in my view that this defendant had a reasonable excuse on medical grounds."

He found him guilty of failing to provide a specimen and fined him £275, ordered him to pay costs of £200, a victim's surcharge of £15 and disqualified him from driving for 18 months.

The Independent

Note: According to those in the know it was the court-appointed doctor who stated that Bailey was suffering from paranoid delusions and possibly a personality disorder and not, as the Independent states, Bailey's defence team.

27 comments:

iliacus said...

Prosecutor Adebayor Kareem ....

Bet that annoyed him!!!

iliacus said...

So, he (probably) (according to himself) wasn't drunk.

But he was "tired" and had been "taking tablets".

So, driving whilst tired and after taking tablets ....

Meanwhile his DEFENCE counsel says he has a "possible personality disorder ... depression in the past ... and may be paranoid".

With friends like that ....

Typical BNP loser ...

Anonymous said...

"It adds to my belief it is a conspiracy against me, my party and the indigenous people of this country."

Nothing to do then with him driving pissed hence the slurred speech!

The BNP now have a get-out-clause for any criminal behaviour - it's all a conspiracy!!!

This is what reading "The Protocols of Zion" does to you.

vitamin said...

Drink driving is added to a long list of serious criminal convictions of BNP members for the "party of law and order".

Fuckin' ironic!!!

Jay said...

How law abiding the BNP are, lol

John P said...

I've been asked to add this to the post:-

According to those in the know it was the Court Appointed Doctor who stated that Bailey was suffering from Paranoid Delusions and possibly a Personality Disorder and not as The Independent state Baileys defence team.

Pete Green said...

He said: "It adds to my belief it is a conspiracy against me, my party and the indigenous people of this country."

No, you moron. You were done because you were driving while pissed. Serves you right.

Brummie said...

If you're a member of the British National Party, two plus two always makes five. And the sea isn't wet either.

They think they are above the law of the land. Reminds me of one of them recently stating that someone isn't guilty of a crime just because the state says they are.

As for Bailey, his voters must be reminded of this when this sleaze-ridden hate-filled ageing yobbo is up for election.

Anonymous said...

But at least he wasn't showing off any cleavage or wearing a short skirt, cos those really would be terrible offences wouldn't they?

Anonymous said...

thank you JP

tulip

catboyslim said...

Why is it the London BNP are full of paranoid mentally ill alcoholics who are not fit for public office?

Is it par for the course?

One thing's for sure, loonies won't be popular with the public, lol

marky the sparky said...

Why are so many demented egotists, freaks, perverts, nonces, druggies, nutters, anti-social thugs, wife-beaters, arseholes, thugs, drop-outs, losers, Walter-Mitty types, fanatics, fantasists, and pissed psychos in the BNP?

Can former members of the BNP answer this rather difficult question, lol

writer mik said...

Comedians everywhere can kill off the British Nazi Party by mercillously taking the piss from all angles, not just the racism and the Hitler worshipping. Make them so uncool and trendy, no-one would touch them with a bargepole.

Or make TV characters BNP members. When the Mitchell Brothers joined the NF, this put the nail in the coffin.

A much similar thing needs to be done with having one of the most unpopular soap opera characters joining the BNP. Maybe (fittingly) an alcholic wife-beating egotistical thick-as-pig-shite arsehole (unlike Alf Garnet, with no popular working class appeal).

A character universally loathed, like Nasty Nick in the original Big Brother.

Hope some telly writers are reading this blog, lol.

And before the BNP shout "persecution", the Tories put up with "Tory Boy".

It's fair game to have the piss taken out of you in politics (IF YOU CAN CALL THE BNP THAT), so let's have a "BNP Barry", please!" LOL

Pinku Da PenQuinn said...

Bailey was stumbling around like a legless turkey not because he was drunk, but because the shoes he was wearing at the time were made with inferior non-Aryan sweatshop labour!

jennydelight said...

It's about time the BBC started to report on humiliating cases regarding the BNP. They are all too keen on giving them a mouthpiece, but they didn't even mention the "shannigans" at the RWB, let alone Robert Cottage's chemical weapons terror plot.

Me thinks the BBC love the BNP.

Don't know why, though, when so many journos are on Redwatch. Hope they are not scared of Watmough's mouth.

Bart Simpson said...

Fuckwits like BumBailey make the BNP a stupid laughing stock, and we all know Gri££in will never fire him until he's saved up a little kitty of funds which Cyclops has feasted his greedy eyes upon.

DOH!!!

joe said...

Stand up comics could do a BNP fanaticist also, making a complete arse of himself. Just remember to leave the character with no redeeming features, learning the lessons from Alf Garnett and the Pub Landlord.

bald eagle said...

Yes, are the pathetic BBC news department scared of the BNP?

Find it impossible that they would ever allow any character on East Enders to join the BNP, the script editors shit-scared of the likes of Lee Barnes ringing them in the night rambling incomprehensively.

Of course they might now have a genine reason - with alcoholics like Bailey and Dicky Bumbrook behind the wheel, they could be mown down by a runaway lunatic BNP drunk driver seeking vengeance by sheer coincidence.

Anonymous said...

"Why are so many demented egotists, freaks, perverts, nonces, druggies, nutters, anti-social thugs, wife-beaters, arseholes, thugs, drop-outs, losers, Walter-Mitty types, fanatics, fantasists, and pissed psychos in the BNP?"


Can't speak for the BNP, but I used to be in the National Front and at the time I reckon I could have ticked ten-and-a-half of those sixteen boxes. And I sat at the top table. Scary, isn't it?

Anonymous said...

"But at least he wasn't showing off any cleavage or wearing a short skirt..."


Do you know this or are you just making a sweeping assumption?

Anonymous said...

Maybe a silly question, but will Bailey resign or the BNP withdraw the whip?

Karen said...

"Chris Sweetman, defending Bailey"

Where was Barnes?

"possible personality disorder"

Does not seem like a Possible but rather a confirmed personality disorder.

"may have made him paranoid."

You don't say! Nothing "may" about it!

Anonymous said...

It's funny how these Master Race types play the mental health card when they're in trouble. The Reich would've had them all sent to the gas chambers, either for being mentally weak or for cowardice.

Silly post-modern nazis, just as post-modernism is dying on its arse.

Mr Fister said...

I think it's fair to say that Bob knows that we know that he knows that the Jews did it.

Jamie The Antifascist said...

He's always been a stubborn little twat, lol

Anonymous said...

"Me thinks the BBC love the BNP"

Errrr, No.

John P said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Me thinks the BBC love the BNP"

Errrr, No.

1:53 AM, September 03, 2009

Errrr, yes,
When the News of the fucking World are more willing to pick up on anti BNP stories than the BBC in the run up to an election you really do have to wonder don't you.
Go and watch the Marr interview with Griffin.