Court told of BNP leader's nightmare vision

Leeds Crown Court was told how Griffin, who faces four race hate charges, informed the meeting on January 19, 2004, that white society had descended into a multi-racial hell hole.

At the same meeting at the Reservoir Tavern pub in West Lane, fellow BNP activist Mark Collett urged supporters to "show these ethnics the door in 2004."

Griffin and Collett were charged after a BBC undercover reporter, Jason Gwynne, posed as a party supporter for six months between November 2003 and May 2004.

Mr Gwynne filmed the pair making a series of speeches in West Yorkshire -- six of which resulted in the charges following the transmission of The Secret Agent programme on July 15, 2004.

Rodney Jameson QC, prosecuting, told the jury of eight men and four women that Griffin's speech in the Reservoir Tavern concentrated on allegations of paedophile drug rape by Asian Muslims in Keighley.

Griffin, who stood as a candidate for the Keighley constituency in last year's general election, claimed that Muslims were drugging and raping young white girls and that the Qur'an gave them permission to do it.

Mr Jameson said that Griffin stated: "Their good book (the Qur'an) tells them that that is acceptable. If you doubt it, go and buy a copy and you will find verse after verse which says you can take any woman as long as they're not Muslim.

"These 18, 19, and 25-year-old Asian Muslims are seducing and raping white girls in this town right now."

He urged the crowd to "vote BNP so we can ensure the British people realise the evil of what these people have done to our country."

In a speech at Morley Town Hall on May 5, 2004, Griffin criticised media coverage of the Stephen Lawrence case and said the murder victim was a drug dealer.

He said: "Everyone knows that he was notorious for taxing the younger kids for their dinner money and he was a drug dealer, and according to the Metropolitan Police, or many people within the Metropolitan Police, he was killed by another black, not a white racist attack at all."

Griffin also predicted Islamic terrorists would set off bombs in major British cities more than a year before the July 7 attacks.

In May 2004, Griffin said: "There is going to be blood all over the streets. Look at this hugely unstable situation they have created in this country of ours, where we all know that sooner or later there's going to be Islamic terrorists letting off bombs in major cities.

"When it happens, it's going to be done by asylum seekers or it's going to be done by second generation Pakistanis living in somewhere like Bradford."

Griffin, 45, of Llanerfyl in Powys, denies four counts of using words or behaviour intended or likely to stir up racial hatred.

Collett, 24, of Rothley in Leicestershire, denies eight similar charges.

Mr Jameson also read excerpts from Collett's speech in the Reservoir Tavern, in which he stated: "People living in Bradford and Keighley are living in hell. Let's show these ethnics the door in 2004."

At the Crossroads pub in Keighley on March 31, 2004, Collett said: "These gangs of Asian lads aren't mugging Asian grannies and they're not going down the Mosque and noncing little Sanjita, they're doing it to white people.

"They're the real racists cos they're the ones that want to wipe out white people."

In another speech at the Falconer's Rest in Morley on April 14, 2004, Collett said the only benefit from multiculturalism was "a few curries."

Mr Jameson said the aim of the speeches was to build fear and resentment of Asian people by "creating a vision of a nightmare - rape, muggings and so on - and then saying that 'they' as a race are entirely responsible for it".

Before the trial began on Monday, hundreds of protestors gathered outside Leeds Crown Court.

Dozens of police had to separate around 600 opponents of the BNP and up to 200 supporters of Griffin and Collett.

The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Norman Jones, warned demonstrators not to try to influence proceedings. The trial was set to resume today.