{"id":421,"date":"2006-10-07T17:24:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T07:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2006-10-07T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T07:24:16","slug":"uk-abusive-racist-internet-user-goes-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"UK : abusive racist Internet user goes to jail&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/merseyside\/5412558.stm\">&#8216;Walker race hate messager jailed&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>BBC<\/strong><br \/>\nOctober 6, 2006<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who posted racist messages on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonywalker.org.uk\/\">website<\/a> set up in memory of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/merseyside\/4441218.stm\">murdered<\/a> black teenager <em>Anthony Walker<\/em> [21.2.87 &#8212; 30.7.05] has been jailed for two years and eight months.<\/p>\n<p><em>Neil Martin<\/em>, 30, of Maghull, posted the offensive remarks just days after the 18-year-old student was killed with an ice axe in Huyton, Merseyside.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to publishing material intended or likely to stir up racial hatred.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager was murdered in McGoldrick Park in Huyton on 29 July 2005&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The two men convicted of Anthony&#8217;s murder, Paul Taylor and Michael Barton, &#8220;had ambushed Anthony after shouting racist abuse at him as he waited for a bus with his girlfriend and cousin&#8221;. Both received life sentences.<\/p>\n<p>[BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/help\/3681938.stm\">video<\/a>]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During police interviews, Martin admitted posting the messages but insisted he was not racist.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Lloyd, defending, said Martin had no history of racist behaviour and that he felt &#8220;deeply ashamed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She said: <strong>&#8220;He was isolated and living in a fantasy world, spending hours on his computer in his room where his persona could be as he made it, good or bad.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=94\">Scumfront Down Under<\/a><\/strong> | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=352\">Be careful what you wish for&#8230;<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=410\">FDB! Press Release on Blood &#038; Honour Australia, the Southern Cross Hammerskins and The Birmingham Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Doffing of yarmulke : Dr. Sexenheimer]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Walker race hate messager jailed&#8217; BBC October 6, 2006 A man who posted racist messages on a website set up in memory of murdered black teenager Anthony Walker [21.2.87 &#8212; 30.7.05] has been jailed for two years and eight months. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=421\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism","category-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-6N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}