The last time we heard of John Broomfield, he was face down in the streets of Bournemouth with a police officer’s gun pointing in his face in 2010.
He was with a car load of English Defence League (EDL) activists and others arrested at various addresses on suspicion of conspiracy to cause an explosion at a Bournemouth mosque.
They were taken to Poole and Southampton police stations for questioning before being release.
Mr Broomfield, a former soldier, told the Daily Mail how “There was an unmarked police car in a lay-by and within seconds of me stopping police appeared from it, ran up the road and shot at my tyres and smashed the window in.
“It was extremely scary. I was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause an explosion at a Bournemouth mosque.”
He then vanished. Well, it turns out he went to prison for downloading child pornography. Broomfield, who gave his address at the time as Bell Street, Swanage, admitted 20 counts of making indecent images of children.
After his computers were forensically examined, 236 indecent images were found, depicting children and babies.
Broomfield told the court at the time that he downloaded the images to “stitch up” his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend, but they never made their way to the boyfriend’s computer,and Broomfield was “disgusted” with himself.
The court was told that he was “anti” child pornography and had been “disgusted” by the images he had made.
Sentencing Broomfield, Judge Samuel Wiggs told him: “I regard your potential use of these images as being particularly serious.” As well as being jailed, Broomfield was stuck on the sex offenders’ register for seven years.
Whatever the truth, this vermin has resurfaced in the moral crusaders of Britain First as a “Regional Commanding Officer”.
Over to you Paul Golding to explain away this one. It’s probably the fault of some Muslim, somewhere. The EDL disgusted by his return. And that says something….
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