English Defence League joins the neo-Nazis of the National Front in Newcastle on 4 JuneA thug has admitted throwing a firecracker during fierce clashes after English Defence League supporters stormed an anti-Jubilee rally.

Anthony Crawford hurled a firecracker into a group of demonstrators at Greys Monument in Newcastle on June 4, 2012. The 22-year-old, of Elmway, Chester-le-Street, Durham, pleaded guilty to the offences at Newcastle Magistrates Court on Thursday, June 28.

An 18-year-old man was taken to Newcastle Freeman Hospital for treatment to burns suffered when the explosive hit his face and landed in his hood.

He was with friends at a "Stuff The Jubilee Party" which was organised on Facebook and due to start at midday. Members of the EDL carrying banners arrived shortly beforehand. A line of around 25 officers separated the two groups.

A 45-year-old-man from South Tyneside was also arrested on suspicion of affray and was bailed pending further enquiries.

Crawford will be sentenced on July 4.

Newcastle Chronicle, 28 June 2012

See also "EDL supporter admits throwing firecracker at anti-Jubilee protester in Newcastle", Sky Tyne and Wear, 28 June 2012

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The EDL have delightedly posted a link to a Sky news report of their members attacking a "Stuff the Jubilee party" in Newcastle earlier today. This despite a clear statement in the report that "Nazi salutes and chants" were directed against the anti-Jubilee protestors by the EDL.

There is also video footage of an EDL supporter throwing a firework, which apparently hit one of the anti-Jubilee crowd, burning his hair, much to the pleasure of his attackers, who admitted in gloating Facebook comments to throwing bottles as well.

The EDL's football hooligan division, Casuals United, has posted a short report too, making no attempt to hide the fact that the EDL organised the demonstration in co-operation with the Infidels breakaway group, with whom the EDL had supposedly severed links due to the Infidels' neo-Nazi sympathies.

Hope Not Hate reports that the EDL and Infidels met up at a Newcastle pub before going on to join a contingent from the National Front led by "veteran far right bonehead Simon Biggs". HNH's reporter also spotted another notorious Nazi, Kevin Watmough of Redwatch, on the demonstration.

HNH notes that Mark Walls of the Infidels "appeared very friendly with the rival EDL leader Alan Spence, who has only recently been released from prison". Spence, you may remember, is a former BNP parliamentary candidate who received a seven months' sentence for his part in a 2010 attack by the EDL on the Tyneside Irish Centre, where the Socialist Workers Party was due to hold a meeting.

Based on Facebook comments, one of the Infidels' supporters involved in the Newcastle confrontation was an individual who goes by the pseudonym of Sir-Northeast Markio. His real name is Mark Turnbull, and he is a former BNP member from Gateshead who was in court back in 2010 following violence at an EDL demonstration in Leicester.

Another participant from the neo-Nazi milieu was a National Front member from Sunderland named Paul Birleson, who stood as an NF candidate in last month's council elections. Birleson says that it was the NF who led the attack on the anti-Jubilee protestors, with back-up from the EDL and Infidels:

The EDL's claim that they are not part of the far right, but are merely a non-violent human rights movement whose aim is limited to peacefully protesting against Muslim extremists, is so laughable that you wonder why they insist on holding themselves up to ridicule by continuing to repeat these lies.

Not part of the far right? Fascist thug accompanying EDL banner throws a Nazi salute

Not part of the far right? EDL and NF members demonstrate side by side

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