Tony Lecomber

Anthony "Tony" Mark Lecomber (born 1961)^[1]is a British criminal and former Group Development Director for the British National Party^[2]

Background

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.^[3]

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.^[3]

Convictions

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.^[3]

On 31 October 1986, he was injured by a nailbomb that he was carrying to the offices of the Workers Revolutionary Party in Clapham. Police found 10 grenades, seven petrol bombs and two detonators at his home. For this offence, he received a three-year prison sentence at his trial on 28 November that year.^[4]

In 1991, when he was Propaganda Director of the BNP,^[5] Lecomber saw a Jewish teacher removing a BNP sticker at a London Underground station and attacked him. Lecomber was released from his three-year sentence in time to play a key part in the BNP's by-election win in Millwall ward of Tower Hamlets in September 1993.

Later in the 1990s, Lecomber became closer to Nick Griffin and supported Griffin when he successfully challenged John Tyndall's leadership of the BNP in 1999. In 2006 Lecomber was sacked from his position as Group Development Officer. This followed allegations made by former Merseyside BNP organiser that Lecomber had tried to recruit him to assassinate prominent politicians and members of the British establishment. Lecomber admitted that a conversation had taken place but stated that he hadn't meant the comments to be taken literally.^[6]

References

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↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20050320030649/http://www.bnp.org.uk/organisation/structure.htm
1 2 3 BNP: Under the Skin, BBC News.
↑ Nick Cohen, "Hold On a Minute ... Will It Be Boots and Broadcasts at the BNP?", The Observer, 5 January 1997.
↑ "On the seamier side: the shadow of racist politics", The Economist, 7 December 1991
↑ Sunday Herald, 28 May 2006

Far-right politics in the United Kingdom

Pre-1945 groups	British Brothers League British Fascists British People's Party British Union of Fascists The Britons Britons Publishing Society English National Association Imperial Fascist League The Link Militant Christian Patriots National Fascisti National Party National Socialist League Nordic League Right Club

Defunct post-1945 groups	British Democratic Party British Empire Party British Freedom Party British People's Party British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women British League of Rights British National Party Column 88 Conservative Democratic Alliance Constitutional Movement England First Party Flag Group Freedom Party Greater Britain Movement League of Empire Loyalists National Democratic Party National Democrats National Fellowship National Independence Party National Labour Party National Party National Socialist Action Party National Socialist Movement National Socialist Movement New Britain Party New Nationalist Party Northern League November 9th Society Official National Front Patriotic Party Racial Preservation Society Revolutionary Conservative Caucus Spearhead Union Movement United Country Party White Defence League White Nationalist Party Western Goals Institute

Active groups	Blood & Honour Britain First British Democratic Party British Movement British National Party (Resistance (YBNP)) Candour Casuals United Christian Council of Britain Combat 18 English Defence League English Democrats International Third Position League of Saint George Liberty GB National Action National Front National Liberal Party Nationalist Alliance Racial Volunteer Force Redwatch Stop Islamisation of Europe

Pre-1945 people	Mary Sophia Allen John Amery Henry Hamilton Beamish John Beckett Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford R. B. D. Blakeney A. K. Chesterton John Henry Clarke Thomas Haller Cooper Barry Domvile Henry Drummond Wolff Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll William Evans-Gordon Robert Forgan Rolf Gardiner Patrick Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow Harold Elsdale Goad Reginald Goodall Robert Gordon-Canning Louis Greig Neil Francis Hawkins J. F. C. Fuller William Joyce Arnold Leese Rotha Lintorn-Orman Frank McLardy Diana Mitford Unity Mitford Cynthia Mosley Oswald Mosley Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth Archibald Maule Ramsay David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale Alliott Verdon Roe Edward Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford Alexander Raven Thomson Graham Seton Hutchison Nesta H. Webster Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington Henry Williamson Ormonde Winter Francis Yeats-Brown

Post-1945 people	Tim Ablitt Ian Anderson Richard Barnbrook A. F. X. Baron James Larratt Battersby Derek Beackon John Bean Jane, Lady Birdwood Jonathan Bowden Andrew Brons Kevin Bryan Eddy Butler A. K. Chesterton Mark Collett David Copeland Mark Cotterill Nicky Crane Simon Darby Sharon Ebanks Richard Edmonds Andrew Fountaine Nick Griffin Jeffrey Hamm Anthony Hancock Patrick Harrington Ray Hill Derek Holland Tom Holmes Colin Jordan Arthur Kemp John Kingsley Read Alan Lake Richard Lawson Tony Lecomber Michael McLaughlin Eddy Morrison John Morse David Myatt John O'Brien Roy Painter Denis Pirie Kevin Quinn Anthony Reed Herbert Robert Relf Jack Renshaw Tommy Robinson Robert Row Simon Sheppard Ian Stuart Donaldson Keith Thompson John Tyndall Richard Verrall Adam Walker Martin Webster Robert West Graham Williamson Martin Wingfield John Graeme Wood

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British National Party

Leadership

Leaders	John Tyndall (1982–1999) Nick Griffin (1999–2014) Adam Walker (2014–present)

Deputy Leaders	Richard Edmonds (1982–1999) Sharron Edwards (1999–2000) Tony Lecomber (2000–2002) Scott McClean (2002–2007) Simon Darby (2007–2010) vacant (2010–2014) Adam Walker (2014)

History of the British National Party

National Front British National Party election results Question Time appearance British National Party leadership election, 1999 British National Party leadership election, 2011 British National Party leadership election, 2015

Organisation

Resistance (YBNP) Student BNP Christian Council of Britain American Friends of the British National Party

European alliance

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