BBC recruiting for the BNP again

Compare 2 versions of a story about years of racist torment and provocation. First this one by the BBC's Phil Mackie:

Politics Fragments Stoke

As an Asian man from Stoke-on-Trent begins a jail term for killing his British National Party activist neighbour, what impact has the case had on the city?...Mr Brown's death and the subsequent trial have become an important part of British National Party (BNP) campaigning.

The party believes that had the roles in the fatal fight been reversed, Mr Brown would be serving life for murder. Its bloggers rail against a judicial system they say is hamstrung by political correctness and dominated by a middle-class liberal elite.


We've always known that the BBC has a tendency to distort stories of this ilk, but this takes the piss.

BNP leader, Nick Griffin, even attended Mr Brown's funeral.

Mr Griffin told mourners that Mr Brown's family was subjected to a reign of terror by racist neighbours and their gang friends. (emphasis my own)

...to this one:

Racists made life hell by Dominic Kennedy from the unlikely Times paper

Years of misery endured by a Pakistani family living next door to British National Party activists were outlined yesterday in the murder trial of a Muslim man accused of stabbing his far-right neighbour to death in the street...

...The accused man's son, Azir Habib Saddique, 24, told police that they had endured a nightmare since buying the property. According to Mr Saddique's statement, which was read to a jury at Stafford Crown Court, the Khans were called “Pakis” and their windows were smashed nearly every other day. There were threats to stab the whole family, Mr Saddique told detectives.

We've always known that the Beeb are partial to a bit of story twisting but this takes the piss.

Lets hope the ballot tomorrow takes these sorts of issues into account (see below)