Frank Portinari was sentenced to four years for attempted gun-running in 1993.
Ian Stuart Donaldson died in a car crash the same year.
In 1994 Terry Blackham was arrested with a Czech sub-machine gun on his way to Northern Ireland and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.
Ian Anderson tried to wind down the NF and morph it into a new party called the National Democrats, though upon his release, Blackham reignited the Front. Anderson died of a brain haemorrhage in February 2011. His political career had long been finished, and he remained bitter and angry with me till his dying day.
In 1997, C18 tried a bombing campaign in Britain that was thwarted by the work of a mole, later identified to be Charlie Sargent. Sargent received a life sentence in 1999 for murder committed during the ensuing internal dispute.
In 1999 David Copeland carried out a series of nail-bomb attacks in London aimed at the black, Asian and gay communities, killing three people, including a pregnant woman. Searchlight identified Copeland from photographs they had taken as being a former BNP member.
Nick Griffin took control of the BNP with the help of Tony Lecomber and Eddy Butler and expelled both John Tyndall and Richard Edmonds.
Tyndall died in 2005.
In 2009 Richard Edmonds was appointed to the BNP’s Advisory Council, but temporarily decided to challenge Griffin to a leadership election in 2011 when the party fell out with itself.