The arrest warrant didn’t take long to bite. Kent anti-migrant activist ‘Fash’ Harry Hilden, who as we reported, failed to appear in court last week to face charges, found himself spending a couple of days in a cell and back before the bench rather sooner than he might have liked.
Hilden then took to Facebook to offer his version of events.
The charges, he assured his followers, were “absolute bullshit”, relating, he claimed, to an incident at a march last year in which anti-fascist protesters were in his path and his group “walked through” them.
“No-one got injured at all,” he insisted. “Just brushed past shoulders.”
The rest of the video was a fairly standard tour of his now familiar grievance repertoire: police harassment, national pride, the “influx of undocumented men from uncivilised cultures,” councils placing migrants in communities, and the reassuring conclusion that “nationalism is not a crime.”
No, but failing to turn up in court is a different matter…
It may be, of course, that he was just so busy posting stuff like this on Facebook that his court appearance completely slipped his mind:
This charming offering was, incidentally, ‘liked’ by Jodie Scott, aka Missus Kent, the far right’s favourite caterwauler.