Met Police busted over BNP badge maker

AN ELITE British police ‘counter-terrorism’ unit has been found guilty of getting its unofficial badges made by a far-Right activist with links to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik.

The London Metropolitan Police SO20 chemical, nuclear and biological search team’s offence was uncovered when Martin Roberts couldn’t resist bragging on his Facebook page about the Saxon warrior emblem he’d devised for them. Roberts – a former organiser for the imploding British National Party – told his Facebook followers: “Another happy customer. The Met Police. Thank you.”

Roberts has previously sold badges bearing the names of the neo-Nazi paramilitary Combat 18 and white racist music network Blood & Honour.

Anti-fascist campaign group Hope Not Hate said that Roberts was one of a thousand people sent “a warped manifesto” by Anders Breivik an hour before his bomb and gun massacres in July last year that left 77 dead.

Hope Not Hate reported that the police officer responsible for the badge order did not know that Roberts owned the company, Calder Designs. Nevertheless, it said, the incident will infuriate police chiefs as the London force faces a growing race storm as 20 officers are under investigation over alleged racist incidents.

• Breivik’s trial begins next Monday, 16 April.