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Setbacks for Blood and Honour

01 March 1993

Brothers, Roy and Kevin Johnson, who ran Screwdriver Services, an outlet for the fascist Blood and Honour music outfit, have been jailed for six months for incitement to racial hatred. The brothers, who are also both members of the Ku Klux Klan, were arrested in 1990 following a raid on their home, in Essex, after police intercepted quantities of racist material from the United States at Stansted Airport.

While Blood and Honour have made some headway in organising in the north of England they have had little success in London since their abortive attempt to organise a concert in May 1989. More recently they attempted a revival by putting on an international gig in the capital September 1992 which resulted in the "Battle of Waterloo" when anti-fascists forced them to flee under police protection. In the past year they have attempted to capitalise on the growth of Nazi violence in Germany.

In Germany a court is seeking the extradition of three members of the Blood and Honour band, Screwdriver, after they failed to appear on charges of causing grievous bodily harm. The charges followed the arrest of members of the band for the stabbing of a young German in Cottbus in September 1991, when the group had planned to play at a concert for nazis from across Europe (see Statewatch 5).

At Bruehl, near Cologne, an international distribution firm for neo-nazi and skinhead music, Rock-O-Rama, was raided by police as part of a crackdown on musicians who incite racial hatred. A French record label, Rebelles Europeens, has recently opened a British outlet.

CARF March/April 1993; Guardian 31.3.93; Independent 4.2.93