English village invaded by 800 Nazi skinheads

Beer-swilling skinheads draped in swastika flag

The Sun | Sep 25, 2008

By JOHN COLES

A VILLAGE expecting a scooter festival found itself invaded by more than 800 Nazi yobs instead.

Racist skinheads from across Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe arrived draped in swastika flags.

Wearing leather jackets and army boots, they stomped through the streets chanting: “Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil.”

Horrified locals watched as the beer and whisky-swilling thugs urinated over cars and threatened anyone who dared intervene.

Terror

Mum-of-two Sarah Gooding — who filmed the mob — told how her family fled their cottage in terror. Sarah, 39, said: “It was like a miniature Nuremberg rally.

“I ran inside, burst into tears and said to my husband, ‘We’ve got to go, I don’t feel safe’. Our daughters were really, really frightened. They were in tears as we were packing our bag to flee.”

Debbie Johnson, another resident in Redhill, Somerset, said she left her home as drunks took over her garden. She added: “It was disgraceful behaviour. I was very upset that anyone can hold those views after what’s happened in the past. I found it incredibly distressing and so did my family.”

The Bungalow Inn had provided a two-acre field with a marquee for the weekend-long “scooter and music festival” after being contacted by record company ISD.

Bosses were unaware that ISD bills itself as the world’s “oldest and most dependable White Nationalist Movement CD label” — or that the event marked the 15th anniversary of the death of a cult skinhead band’s frontman.

Pub manager Ian Saunders said: “If I knew that this would happen I would never have allowed it.”

North Somerset Council unwittingly granted a “temporary events notice” allowing live music and the sale of alcohol.

Police received dozens of complaints, but no arrests were made.

Last night police inspector Steve Date said: “We are conducting a thorough investigation into a complaint about racist chanting.”

ISD records were unavailable for comment.