In the interest of balance: BNP councillors

http://www.zen26144.zen.co.uk/articles/crapcouncillors.htm

Sources are contained in the article. I'm well aware this is a biased article but as a link to the BNP's 2005 General Election Manifesto (wtf?) was posted on here I thought this was acceptable.

 

Simon Goodricke - BNP Holyland Milton Ward

http://www.thestar.co.uk/headlines/Criminal-past-of-BNP-man.4020597.jp?articlepage=1

Criminal past of BNP man

Published Date:
25 April 2008
By Gail Robinson

THE BNP today defended a candidate with a criminal record who is standing in Barnsley in the local council elections.
Simon Goodricke, the BNP candidate for the Hoyland Milton ward, was jailed for 18 months for perverting the course of justice 10 years ago.

But Barnsley BNP organiser Ian Sutton today insisted the offences were all in the past and that Goodricke had paid his debt to society.

He said: "That is a spent conviction, Simon has moved on since then and we believe he is a good candidate who has a great deal to offer the local community.

"We are happy with him as our candidate and have given him all our support."

Goodricke declined to comment.

He is standing for election in Thursday's Barnsley Council ballot.

The party contested a number of seats at the last election, but failed to gain any places on the local authority. This years they have a record 21 candidates for seats on the council - almost a representative in every ward.

A spokesman said they were confident that they would win at least one seat.

Goodricke is a former West Midlands detective who was kicked out of the force and jailed for 18 months for perverting the course of justice and conning a pensioner out of £1,000.

Described in court as a 'gambling addict', he borrowed £200,000 from a crooked businessman to try to deal with his massive debts.

He was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court after being found guilty of tipping off two corrupt businessmen, including the one who had loaned him money, that they were the centre of an international police inquiry into a money laundering plot and scam to swindle £100million from Colombian drugs barons.

Goodricke, aged 46, who now lives in Pennine View, Darton, used his position as a CID officer in Solihull to get information from the National Criminal Intelligence Service which he then passed on to a fraudster Graham Alexander.

Charges of plotting to obtain the £100million against Alexander and his accomplice John Butler, both from Solihull, were subsequently dropped. But they were later each jailed for six years after being found guilty of conspiracy to obtain money by deception.

At court Goodricke was found guilty of perverting the course of justice and he admitted dishonestly obtaining £1,000 from an 80-year-old pensioner he had first met when as a police officer he was investigating a broken window at her home. He was said to have duped her with a sob story telling her he owed £3,500 on his mortgage and his house was going to be repossessed.

The court was told he was not in arrears and there had been no threat of repossession. He had used half of the £1,000 to pay of loans and gave his then wife, from whom he subsequently was divorced, the other £500 to pay bills and feed them and their three children.

Goodricke, described as 'an unremarkable detective', was thrown out of West Midlands Police in 1996, two years after being suspended on disciplinary charges.

He is standing for the BNP in the Hoyland Milton ward of Barnsley Council.

 

'Racist, ex-CID copper with a criminal history now representing BNP at local elections.'

Deary me. Doesn't get much worse than that.

 

Balance? On this most worthy of forums?

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It doesn't happen. Not that you'd have had much to go at in mitigation if you actually had attempted it.</p>

 

RE: Balance? On this most worthy of forums?

It just made me laugh, especially the guy who campaigned as being tough on anti-social behaviour who was given an asbo.