One court has heard that a father and his two children who were found guilty of racial hatred crimes after performing new-Nazi songs in a gig.
59 -year -old Robert Taland held a gig on 21 September 2019 at the Corpus Christie Club in Leeds, with his son Stephen, 36 and his daughter Rosie, 33, performed songs that encouraged racial hatred.
Taland managed his children’s bands, Ambars of a Empire, and was a prominent person of the “Blood and Honor” Nav-Nazi Network, who promoted his ideology through music festivals and said the sale of goods for the “White Power” rock band, the counter terrorism police.
He also ran a record label, rampage productions, which distributed CDs by Nav-Nazi groups.
Prosecutor Thomas Williams pronounced a sentence in the Woolwich Crown Court, albums with lyrics that called people for “Late the Blood Flow” and “Smash Heads In” encouraged right -wing terrorism with songs for calling for “joining the fight against race mixers”.
In the 2019 Gig, the members of the audience were captured by the Nazi salute -making songs on CCTV, stating that “hope you are ready to die”, “until the final is a floor hit a hit”, and “We will send them back to a box”.
Defending Robert, Mark Gadsden said: “The song was a metaphor and it was not literally taken.
“It is a matter that no one has worked on that music and has worked on acts of violence.”
Taland and their children were convicted of conspiracy to incite racial hatred after a nine -week trial in the same court earlier this year.
Additionally, Rosie and Stephen were convicted of provoking racial hatred.
Robert was also found guilty of two more counting of a crime and spread of terrorist publications of racially inflammatory content.
Robert, Stephen and Rosie Taland were arrested on 1 October 2020 after a one -year prolonged investigation by the counter terrorism policing North East officials.
In a discovery of Taland’s house, it was found that hundreds of CDs were distributed under his record label, as well as blood honor merchandise and banners “involved in Nav-Nazi Imagery”, the force said.
Blood and Honor was founded in 1987 by the late Ian Stuart Donaldson, who was the frontman of the White Power Band Skrewdriver.
The group promotes racist, antisementary, anti-commercial and LGBT anti-LGBT violence, and was hit on a suspected terrorist link with UK asset-freed order in January this year.
Judge Andrew Leis postponed the sentence until 11 September.
