Anthony "Tony" Mark Lecomber (born 1961)is a former Group Development Director for the British National Party.
Lecomber has been active in far-right politics since the early 1980s. His role is mainly behind the scenes in planning BNP election campaigns, but his history of convictions for violence have given him prominence in anti-BNP publicity and led to his removal from the party.
He joined the National Front in the early 1980s, but allied with ...
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Anthony "Tony" Mark Lecomber (born 1961)is a former Group Development Director for the British National Party.
Lecomber has been active in far-right politics since the early 1980s. His role is mainly behind the scenes in planning BNP election campaigns, but his history of convictions for violence have given him prominence in anti-BNP publicity and led to his removal from the party.
He joined the National Front in the early 1980s, but allied with John Tyndall who was being blamed for the NF's poor performance at the 1979 general election. When Tyndall split to form the New National Front and later the British National Party, Lecomber followed him. He was editor of Young Nationalist, which the BBC describes as a racist and antisemitic magazine.
Lecomber was convicted for criminal damage in 1982, offences under the Explosives Act in 1985, and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in 1991 for an attack on a Jewish teacher.
On 31 October 1986, he was injured by a nailbomb that he was...
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