Stephen Mullins also punched a man who intervened and then bit a police officer’s fingers

A man with a “big problem with foreigners” launched a verbal attack on a family in a North Wales park before brandishing a knife. He also assaulted a Good Samaritan who stepped in, and bit a police officer’s fingers.

During the incident at the Shotton playground, Stephen Mullins said “Tommy Robinson would be ashamed” when discussing immigration into the UK. The 33 year old, of Salisbury Street, Shotton, was sentenced to a total of two years and three months for affray, assault and from a suspended sentence.

The court was told by his solicitor that Mullins had been missing his own family while behind bars on remand, and had complained about the lack of pillows to sleep on in prison.

Prosecutor Amy Edwards told Mold Crown Court that at around 6pm on August 21, a man was enjoying time with his friend and their children in the park.

Mullins approached them and asked: “Where are you from? Poland?.”, reports North Wales Live.

The group confirmed they were, the court heard. Mullins responded: “Take your children and f*** off to your own country.”

Ms Edwards stated that Mullins stumbled and fell over. He then pulled out a knife from the right pocket of his shorts and began shouting: “I’m going to kill you.”

Nearby residents started to record the incident. Bystander Robert Taylor – whom the judge praised as a “Good Samaritan” – repeatedly told Mullins to put down the knife.

Eventually, Mullins attempted to shake hands with people but they declined. Mullins became aggressive and said “Tommy Robinson would be ashamed”, in reference to immigration.

He then lunged at Mr Taylor and punched him on the right temple. Police arrived but Mullins resisted.

As he was being handcuffed, the defendant bit an officer’s fingers and during a police interview, he expressed “entrenched” views.

He stated: “Polish people are foreigners (and) he has a big problem with them and other foreigners.”

He also claimed: “Nobody is doing anything about it” and he “has to do something defend this country”.

Defending, Oliver King explained that on the morning of the incident, Mullins had received news of his uncle’s death, who he was close to, while his father was terminally ill with end stage liver failure.

Mr King said: “This sent him over the edge. He decided not to go to work and to take alcohol in a way to numb the pain and hurt he was feeling.”

Having abstained from alcohol, its effects were “rapid”, leaving him “drunk and angry”, the court was told. Mr King described the incident as “nasty and spiteful” and offered the defendant’s apologies.

Mullins has been struggling on remand at HMP Berwyn, missing his family and complaining about the lack of pillows for sleeping, the court was told.

Judge Nicola Jones noted the offences committed in the presence of children had caused serious fear among onlookers. Regarding the assault on the officer, she added: “Members of the police have a difficult enough job without facing violence and abuse when they are protecting the public as part of their public service.”

She sentenced him to two years for affray and two months for assaulting the officer. The offences were committed in breach of a previous sentence, so one month of that suspended sentence was also activated.

The judge also handed down a concurrent 16-month prison sentence for carrying a knife in public.

Liverpool Echo

Family members with a “long-standing allegiance” to neo-Nazism who created music calling for racial violence have been jailed.

Robert Talland organised a gig in Leeds in 2019 where his children Stephen, 36, and Rosie, 33, performed their songs to an audience who responded with Nazi salutes, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

The 59-year-old, from Essex, managed the band and was a leading figure of a neo-Nazi music network known as Blood & Honour, a jury was told.

On Thursday, Robert Talland was jailed for four years for terror offences and multiple counts of stirring up racial hatred. His son was jailed for two years and his daughter for 18 months on multiple counts relating to inciting racial hatred.

Sentencing the trio, Judge Andrew Lees said: “At the time of your offending, I am satisfied that each of you had a long-standing allegiance to the neo-Nazi cause.

“That is most clearly evidenced by the racist and anti-semitic messages, videos, memes and other materials you posted via social media.”

Judge Lees said the family’s concerts provided a forum encouraging racial hatred and neo-Nazi ideology with “extreme right-wing” symbols like Nazi flags and banners on display.

The court had heard that Robert Talland, of Waltham Abbey, also ran a record label, Rampage Productions, which distributed CDs by neo-Nazi groups.

According to Counter Terrorism Policing North East (CTPNE), a search of his home found hundreds of CDs distributed under the label, Blood & Honour merchandise and banners “covered in neo-Nazi imagery”.

The albums encouraged racial violence, the trial jury heard.

Members of the audience at the gig at the Corpus Christi Club in Leeds in 2019 were captured on CCTV making Nazi salutes to lyrics which threatened, and called for the death of, individuals belonging to certain groups, the trial was told.

The gig was also a memorial for Ian Stuart Donaldson, frontman of the white power band Skrewdriver and founder of Blood & Honour, who died in September 1993.

Blood & Honour, which promotes white power ideology through music, was hit with a UK asset-freezing order in January over its suspected terror links.

The trial heard that Robert, Stephen and Rosie Talland were all arrested on 1 October 2020, after a year-long investigation by CTPNE.

Following a nine-week trial, all three defendants were convicted of conspiracy to incite racial hatred.

Rosie Talland and Stephen Talland, both of Harlow, were also each convicted of inciting racial hatred.

Meanwhile, Robert Talland was also found guilty of possessing racially inflammatory material and two further counts of disseminating terrorist publications.

After sentencing, Det Ch Supt James Dunkerley, head of CTPNE, said the family had been part of a network encouraging “violence and extreme right-wing terrorism across Europe for decades”.

“Robert Talland dismissed the group as an ‘old man’s drinking club’, but through the gigs and events they organised, they promoted music which glorified acts of murder to audiences which included young children,” he added.

“In doing so, they encouraged attitudes of hatred, intolerance and violence which have no place in our society.”

Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said: “Although people have the right to robustly communicate and exchange views, even when they may cause offence, the encouragement of terrorist acts and racist abuse are criminal offences.

“The members of this family created hateful lyrics and music as an attempt to incite racial hatred, encourage white supremacism and promote the use of serious violence.

“These were not idle fantasies but designed to encourage real world violence. Each of these defendants have received prison sentences for their hateful actions.”

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The YouTuber Anthony Styles is a child sex offender who was sentenced to four and half years in jail after indecently assaulting a schoolgirl

An anti-migrant YouTuber who claims to promote the “protection of women and children” by filming protests outside asylum hotels is a convicted paedophile.

Anthony Styles, whose channel AJ Audits amassed thousands of subscribers, became a fixture of far-right activism by livestreaming demonstrations against grooming gangs and immigration.

Styles, 59, recently recorded gatherings outside hotels in London and Epping during which protesters described asylum seekers as sexual predators who made local girls unsafe.

Many parents brought their young children along to the rallies, which were organised after a small boat migrant from Ethiopia sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in Epping, Essex, in July.

However, Styles has now been unmasked as a child sex offender who was sentenced to four and a half years in jail after being convicted of indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 14.

In 2017, he was put on the sex offenders register for life and handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Five years earlier, the YouTuber also admitted to sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl and possessing hundreds of indecent images of children, for which he received a three-year community order.

His criminal record was uncovered by activists from the group Stand Up To Racism, who spotted his name printed on a fake press pass he made for himself at a protest last month.

The Times confirmed his convictions with the police this week. The most serious offence took place at a flat in Blackpool in 1993, where Styles sexually abused a girl as she sat on his knee after school. He was sentenced at Preston crown court more than 20 years later, in 2017.

His victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was known to him through his partner’s family and frequently visited the flat after school. In a personal statement, she said she had been psychologically affected by the assault.

He was separately found guilty of possessing 307 indecent images of children among a collection of “naturist” images and sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl.

Styles, who uses a wheelchair because of a degenerative illness similar to multiple sclerosis, was jailed by Judge Robert Altham.

The judge said: “The victim was in the habit of coming back to the flats after school. It is on one of those occasions, when she was in the defendant’s sole company in her school uniform, sitting on his knee, as the defendant watched TV.

“He only ceased from this conduct when his partner was coming in, at which stage he got up.

“Nothing was said at the time, but she subsequently raised it with her, and he made an admission of sorts. At the time, he passed it off as accidental touching.

“But in his trial, Styles denied the events ever took place. She has described that this incident has had a significant effect on her.

“There is, properly stated, an abuse of trust in this case. This is a case where the family trusted the care of this little girl to the defendant. He was trusted to be alone with her.”

The judge added that the more recent incident conviction, for assaulting the 17-year-old girl and possessing indecent images, meant he could not be regarded as a man of good character. It is understood this conviction is now spent.

Styles, from Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, kept his convictions hidden from other protesters when he joined a series of anti-immigrant protests outside asylum hotels.

Video from his channel, which he has now deleted, shows him attending demonstrations, which increased this summer after outrage over the Epping incident. He often recorded interviews with demonstrators and could be seen weaving between police and protesters in his wheelchair.

Styles was part of various private groups on social media where the demonstrations were organised, including one called For The Children. He has since been kicked out of the groups after being ostracised from the anti-migrant protest movement as information about his convictions spread online.

In a video uploaded last month, Styles recorded himself following a coach full of Asian men on the M25, claiming in a livestream that it was moving illegal migrants to another hotel.

“They are not welcome. They are illegal migrants,” he can be heard saying as he filmed the back of the coach from a car. His livestream of the pursuit led to the manager of the coach company receiving a flood of abuse, forcing him to stop the vehicle.

In the video, the manager gets off the coach and approaches Styles, begging him to stop spreading misinformation and explaining that no one on board was an illegal migrant and they were all legal agricultural workers.

“People have been threatening my family” because of the footage, he told Styles, who then apologised, saying: “We thought they were illegal migrants.”

Lewis Nielsen, a Stand Up to Racism anti-fascist officer, said: “These revelations show the far right have never cared about women’s rights, they’ve been harbouring convicted offenders in their midst. The hypocrisy is off the charts. This man has claimed to be protecting women and girls while hiding his own convictions. Refugees aren’t the threat to women, the real threat are far far-right fanboys of Elon Musk.”

The Times