Email received at 17.40 hrs this evening:

PRESS RELEASE

Media hate attack on BNP as black ops fake leaflet drops through doors

Within the last hour we have just heard the alarming news that someone has posted inappropriate, but yet unseen or specified leaflets, to the neighbours of murdered MP Jo Cox.

The media and MPs are openly attributing these leaflets to the BNP claiming that we delivered them.

The British National Party did NOT produce or deliver any such leaflet.

The BNP have notified the police insisting on a serious investigation using fingerprint and DNA technology to identify the perpetrators of this vicious act.

Although I understand that this incident has and is understandably causing alarm, anger and distress it is also vital for the facts to be known before this unacceptable act is wrongly blamed on the British National Party.

Since first hearing about this we have given statements to ITV and been refused access to the author of the original erroneous article in the Yorkshire Post.

The reporter is still, over an hour later, “in a meeting” as media outlet after media outlet copy the incorrect article and publish it over the internet.

We will be lodging a serious protest with the media regulatory body as we think the way this has been handled without giving us our right to comment on the allegations is in itself shocking.

Let me be clear, we have already stated that the murder of Jo Cox was outrageous and we find violence of any sort abhorrent, we also find this new affront disgraceful and we categorically deny any involvement in the production and distribution of this leaflet.

As things stand now, the British National Party has also become a victim of this vicious act.

MPs, the police and the media all have a duty to report such incidents in a factual manner and not to stoke hatred and potential threats to the BNP and our many members and officials who could themselves become victim’s of hate crimes as a result of us being wrongly blamed in this incident.

Again, our thoughts and prayers go out to Jo Cox’s family as this recent outrage must be adding significantly to the already terrible pain.

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