Race hate charges (From Warrington Guardian)

Race hate charges

A CREWE man, alleged to have been distributing material intending to incite racial hatred, has been remanded in custody.

Steven William Dempsey, aged 45, of Davenport Avenue, appeared at South Cheshire Magistrates in Crewe yesterday.

He faces charges of inciting racial hatred on June 28, threatening behaviour between July 16 and 17 and of attempting to incite racial hatred on August 2.

White-skinned Dempsey is accused of penning letters calling for violence against white pregnant women, signing them The Brothers of Islam.

He was arrested this week in WH Smiths in Crewe after allegedly gluing a message inside a TV listings magazine.

Roger Badman, representing Dempsey, made no application for bail and the defendant was remanded into police cells until Saturday.

Superintendent Richard Strachan, of Cheshire Police, said: "The investigation is not connected to recent events in London or elsewhere and at this stage we have no reason to believe the man arrested has any connection to any organisation or group."