Nazi hood
Ku Klux Klan fan visits Ulster to stir up race hate

By Ciaran McGuigan
 

THIS is the neo-nazi mouthpiece drafted by right-wing extremists to stir up race hate in Ulster.

Lager-swilling Mark Cotterill is a career nazi who rubs shoulders with the Ku Klux Klan.

He has been forced to leave the hardline BNP because his views were too extreme even for it!

Cotterill, snapped at a loyalist band parade in Bushmills, was one of the speakers at a White Nationalist Party rally in Co Antrim, last month.

Only about 40 people turned up to hear Cotterill and other speakers spread their racist bile, despite claims by the WNP in Ulster that they have hundreds of members.

Their meeting came on the back of accusations that their race-hate literature provoked a string of violent attacks on families in Craigavon and south Belfast.

At least four Muslim families were forced to flee their homes after being targeted by racist thugs.

Cotterill sprung to prominence as the chairman of American Friends of BNP.

He spent several years in the US fundraising for the BNP and building up a network of far right supporters, before quitting his position and returning to England.

During his time in the States, Coterill's associates read like a who's who of extremism.

They included the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke and neo-nazi William Pierce, author of the notorious Turner Diaries - the book that inspired Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Cotterill also had links with Don Black, the owner of the racist Stormfront website.

He returned to England and represented the BNP in the Blackburn area before leaving the party claiming that they were not hardline enough.

"They are not a racist party any more, and they are not a loyalist party any more," he told Sunday Life.