Luke Smith, former BNP councillor, and one of the most vicious little bastards Burnley has seen has killed himself. Smith was expelled from the BNP after smashing a bottle into the face of BNP Insecurity chief Martin Reynolds, and has rarely been out of bother since. He was jailed for 17 months in March 2006 for violent disorder, and at the time of his suicide was awaiting sentencing for assaulting the landlord of a Burnley pub. Smith chose to take his life next to the Balti King takeaway in Yorkshire Street, Burnley, somewhere which is certain to become a favourite spot for local anti-fascists to hang out.
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Good riddance
21.07.2008 15:18
Antifascist
Ha ha ha
21.07.2008 15:46
Drupal
He's still a human being
21.07.2008 15:53
Not really funny
To Not Really Funny
21.07.2008 16:03
No loss at all.
Clasher
The only good fascist is a dead one
21.07.2008 16:06
This is not what deters people from becoming involved with "afa" (an organisation which has not actually existed for some years now. Some people can always think of excuses to do nothing. The world is a better place without Luke Smith, and it would be an even better place without every other one.
Auntie
Luke Smith - Balti King
21.07.2008 16:07
Jo
Blimey
21.07.2008 16:17
Martha
You Vermin.
21.07.2008 16:19
Karma will see to you.
Adolf Hitler
what a shame
21.07.2008 16:38
dead fash
Adolf
21.07.2008 16:45
NaziHunter
to AH
21.07.2008 16:47
no vanguards
Good riddance
21.07.2008 17:30
Rot in piss
luke smith
21.07.2008 17:48
an ex work colleague
A close family?
21.07.2008 18:12
Antifascist
We need more fascists who think like him.
21.07.2008 18:36
As tribute to Lukes magnificent final decision, i suggest that senior members of the BNP use this years Red, White and Blue festival to publicly put his clear and bold ideas into practice. Luke showed us all what should become the way forward for fascism.
L. Parsons
Smith & co
21.07.2008 18:47
All fascists are scum
L.Parsons
21.07.2008 18:49
LMFWAO
A bad un
21.07.2008 19:00
Stan Lee
Funny...
21.07.2008 19:31
Asquith
SAD ALL ROUND
21.07.2008 19:51
A message to all who have put their sick messages on here. YOU WOULD MAKE VERY GOOD NAZIS, AS YOU SEEM DEVOID OF HUMAN FEELING. Remember what you have written here when someone close to you dies.
Bloater
A Sad Loss
21.07.2008 19:55
I will regret the loss of another junkie lover.
Kate Dermody
luke smith
21.07.2008 20:48
ex colleague
Urgent Appeal
21.07.2008 20:59
Luke would have been a great comrade of the other junkie Tony White.
Kate Dermody
Trolls
21.07.2008 22:03
Funny how many of Luke Smith's supposed 'ex work collegues', who are also unpolitical, have managed to find their way to this thread and to another on the Lancaster Unity site so quickly. Fascist trolls are never hard to spot.
Re & Black
HA HA Good job
21.07.2008 22:44
Martin Reynolds
Iago
21.07.2008 23:39
Harlequinade
Seven Stitches?
21.07.2008 23:42
A Dildo
Scumbag trolls
22.07.2008 01:42
If I ever find out who you are mate...
How very selectively edited
22.07.2008 01:43
...
editing
22.07.2008 06:33
an ex colleague
So sick
22.07.2008 08:09
I did not write the earlier comments on the post, nor would I ever contribute to the "debates" you unwashed hippies have on here.
Kate Dermody
reality check
22.07.2008 08:17
BE
huh?
22.07.2008 08:40
Phoebe
Good old Indymedia
22.07.2008 10:58
(Sticks fingers down throat)
Unbelievable
22.07.2008 11:03
Your an absolute disgrace. Getting a kick out of someones death.
No matter what anyone says about Luke, sober he was one of the nicest people you will ever meet. He had demons. Drugs, drink and mental health issues are not funny. This just goes to prove that the 'anti nazis' are the biggest hypocrites around.
I really am flabbergasted at these disgusting comments.
The man has died, yet scum like you and the press still cant wait to bring up his bnp PAST.
You are horrible nasty people, far from the squeeky clean toffs you profess to be.
I would rather know a million Lukes than one cretin like you.
RIP To a true mate, true claret and a nice guy.
MACCA
JAMES MCDONOUGH
Reality Check needs a reality check
22.07.2008 11:06
I suppose the great Gary O'Shea was never in/running Red Action then?
Bring on the Eaton Rifles.
Biera
family
22.07.2008 11:28
jhon doe
Unbelievable?!
22.07.2008 11:45
Joe Attic
lowlifes
22.07.2008 11:45
how many of you knew or met luke ?
none of you.
you have just gone off what you read in papers.
the lad had been through a lot, he wasnt mentally well !!
you lot need to get lifes. your fucking idiots the lot of you.
sitting behind a computer screen and trying to have a laugh about a young man who has just killed himself ?
your fucking scum. be a different matter if it was 1 of your daft do-gooder friends or children wouldnt it ??!!
how about you grow some balls and come say this stuff infront of lukes friends in the pubs he drank at ? see how funny it is then.
your all losers.
RIP Luke Smith
burnley
BSS
22.07.2008 11:49
Curry lover
Get off you trolls
22.07.2008 11:54
Go back to Stormfront scum
RIP LUKE
22.07.2008 12:06
Lauren McDonough
e-mail: lauren_inpink@Hotmail.co.uk
RIP LUKE
22.07.2008 12:13
Lauren McDonough
e-mail: lauren_inpink@Hotmail.co.uk
notice how...
22.07.2008 12:23
big men you lot arent you
burnley
News just in
22.07.2008 12:26
So, no. Unlike Nutzis, we don't care much for this dead scum.
Plant Pot
hypocrites
22.07.2008 12:54
to be honest anyone who mocks a dead man is scum and coward
if he was really as bad as u cunts mek out he would have been locked up for a long time and he wasnt because his offences were only minor
before u go criticizing other ppl lives tek a look at your own and maybe change it so u have better things to do other than talk shit about someone u dint even know.
ste
R.I.P
22.07.2008 13:39
AND FUCK ALL YOU PRICKS WHO FOR SOME REASON FIND THIS FUNNY.
NONE OF YOU KNEW HIM, OR KNEW WHAT PROBLEMS HE WAS GOING THROUGH.
WHAT A COMPLETE LACK OF RESPECT YOUR SHOWING FOR HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO ARE STILL GRIEVING.
YOUR THE REAL SCUM NOT LUKE.
LIAM BOYLE
At least his 'problems' are over now
22.07.2008 13:59
Concerned of halton Moor
RIP Luke
22.07.2008 14:23
RIP Luke, such a tragedy xxx
lauren mcdonough
Wot a Shame
22.07.2008 15:00
Martin Reynolds
"Luke Smith Had Martin Reynolds From Behind"
22.07.2008 15:46
A Dildo
Whine somewhere else
22.07.2008 15:58
22.07.2008 13:23
none of you give your real names
big men you lot arent you
burnley"
So your name's burnley is it? Doh!
"to be honest anyone who mocks a dead man is scum and coward"
How about the scum like Luke Smith who mock 6 Million dead? Besides we mocked the wanker while he was alive.
"if he was really as bad as u cunts mek out he would have been locked up for a long time"
Wasn't he about to be sent down for a long time (second strike for a serious violent assault?) He obviously couldn't do the bird.
"WHAT A COMPLETE LACK OF RESPECT YOUR SHOWING FOR HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY"
I have absolutely no respect whatsoever for Luke Smith, his toerag friends, or his Nazi family. Whine all you want, but how about doing it to your fellow neo-nazis, they might actually give a toss about the demise of this worthless BNP thug?
Arthur Bamford
Luke Smith's 'poor grieving family'
22.07.2008 16:26
Antifascist
Just Hanging Around
22.07.2008 16:42
Do you think they might name a dish in Balti King after him? Or maybe they could put some hanging baskets out to remember him HA! HA!
GOOD RIDDANCE now lets hope the rest of them line to do the same
NO PASARAN!
HA HA HA HA HA
idiots
22.07.2008 17:00
gas man
Luke Smith
22.07.2008 17:07
Tuesday, March 28 2006 @ 11:36 AM GMT-1
FIVE football hooligans from Burnley have been caged after going on the rampage in Manchester at a World Cup qualifying match. The group, including former BNP councillor Luke Smith, were among 24 people sentenced at the culmination of Operation Lucas, which was launched to investigate trouble in Manchester city centre following the match between England and Wales in October 2004.FIVE football hooligans from Burnley have been caged after going on the rampage in Manchester at a World Cup qualifying match. The group, including former BNP councillor Luke Smith, were among 24 people sentenced at the culmination of Operation Lucas, which was launched to investigate trouble in Manchester city centre following the match between England and Wales in October 2004.All of the offenders have been given football banning orders, stopping them from attending football matches for up to 10 years. Two others from East Lancashire were given community punishments. All will miss the World Cup in Germany.Smith was jailed for 11 months for violent disorder, and a further six for an incident in Blackpool; Tempest for ten months for the Manchester violence and six for the Blackpool incident and Jonathan Kearney eight months for Manchester and four for Blackpool.The Manchester violence happened during four main incidents, one on Deansgate, one at the Mitre Bar on Cathedral Gates, one on Market Street and one at Dry Bar on Oldham Street the last involving the Burnley fans.At 5pm, around 24 men were on Oldham Street in Manchester when they started to attack another group of men at Dry Bar.The terrifying attack went on for a number of minutes and involved the offenders throwing items including chairs into the bar where women and children were sitting.In the Blackpool violence, gas engineer and ex-British National Party man Luke Smith, 24, was among a group who travelled to the seaside resort on May 22 last year.Preston Crown Court heard last year a fight broke out at Finn's Bar between Smith's friends and other drinkers.Smith, Daniel Tempest, 22, and Jonathan Kearney, 20, were arrested after being captured on CCTV.Smith, Kearney and Tempest all pleaded guilty to affray at the bar and Tempest to another charge of affray at the Railway pub, Preston, on the same day but were not sentenced until after the completion of the Manchester case.A prosecution team of GMP officers, CPS lawyers and case workers spent six months reviewing CCTV from Manchester city centre.Football intelligence officers from seven other forces, including Lancashire, helped to identify the people who were involved in the disorder.A spokesman for Lancashire police, whose Fixture team was set up to combat hooliganism and investigate the Blackpool incident, said: "Hopefully these sentences will send out a strong message to anyone thinking of getting involved in football-related disorder that it will not be tolerated."This group have been a thorn in our side for some time and have been continually causing disorder in the town centre on match days and we will not stand for it."Greater Manchester Police's Assistant Chief Constable, Stephen Thomas, added: "There are only a small number of individuals who are responsible for spoiling the reputation of our English football fans and by taking action against them we hope to reassure the vast majority of real football supporters that it is safe to attend matches."The majority of these individuals have been issued with football banning orders, preventing them from attending football matches for several years.Banning orders can have a huge impact on these individuals, making sure they are closely monitored by police, which can have a knock-on effect on their friends and those in their social circle."None of these individuals will be allowed to travel to Germany for the World Cup and all will have to surrender their passports to police before the tournament starts."Sentenced at Manchester Crown Court were: l Nicholas Whittle, 44, Brandwood Road, Bacup. Ten months in prison for violent disorder and a further four for an incident in Burnley on November 9 2004. Six-year football banning order.l Daniel Tempest, 22, Cog Lane, Burnley. Ten months in prison for violent disorder. Further six months consecutive for incidents in Blackpool and Preston on May 22 2004. Six-year football banning order.l Jonathan Michael Kearney, 20, Hart Street, Burnley. Eight months at young offenders institute for violent disorder. Further four months consecutive for affray in Blackpool in May 2004. Six-year football banning order.l Paul McNeil, 25, Ainsty Road, Ainsty, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, but a Burnley fan. Ten months in prison for violent disorder. Six-year football banning order.l Luke Smith, 24, Ridge Avenue, Burnley. 11 months in prison for violent disorder. Further six months for incidents in Blackpool and Burnley. Six -year football banning order.l Graeme Brennan, 22, Holcolme Drive, Burnley. 200 hour community punishment order, £1,500 compensation. Three-year football banning order.l Thomas Andrew Carlin, 23, Glen View Road, Burnley. 200 hour community punishment order, £1,500 compensation. Three-year football banning order.
Observer
gas man
22.07.2008 17:16
Go gas yourself
RIP Luke,
22.07.2008 17:21
Lauren
The Oldest Swinger In Town
22.07.2008 18:09
Paul Heaton
LONG LIVE LUKE SMITH FKN LEGEND
22.07.2008 19:44
LONG LIVE LUKE SMITH...RIP MATE
LONG LIVE THE BNP
AND TO THE REST OV U SICK MOTHERE FUCKERS GO FK YA SEL'S PAKI LOVIN CUNTS!
STEPHEN BNP TAYLOR
e-mail: STEPHEN.TAYLOR07@BTINTERNET.COM
What do you call one dead fascist?
22.07.2008 21:05
Clint
Bad Korma
22.07.2008 22:33
Karma will see to you.
Adolf Hitler "
Luke Smith certainly had his share of bad korma.
Singh
Shame on you all!
23.07.2008 00:11
Human Being
FAO Whining Troll
23.07.2008 08:18
Unmoved
Swinging outside the King Balti
23.07.2008 14:38
Def 2 all BNP activists
Spoken like a true BNP sympathiser
23.07.2008 14:46
jhon doe
Spoken and SPELT like a true BNP sympathiser, JHON!
JOHN Doe
Fascist beliefs
23.07.2008 16:05
Charlie
luke smith r.i.p
23.07.2008 20:34
thank you
mez bfc
Burnley
23.07.2008 20:40
Salty
e-mail: bfcsuicidebabies@hotmail.com
I knew Luke
24.07.2008 08:08
Maureen
BPP Scumbags
24.07.2008 09:30
That reminds me, any news of Sheppard, Whittle, White and Watmough?
jenny
GOOD RIDDANCE!
24.07.2008 09:37
thank you"
What friends??????
Max Mosley
newspapers
24.07.2008 09:39
Someone calls him a "true burnley lad".
http://www.burnleyexpress.net/burnleynews/ExBNP-councillor-402641-found-hanged.4310477.jp
If Luke was indeed a "true burnley lad", the town is damned!!!
newshound
I knew Luke Smith
24.07.2008 17:06
John M
BURNLEY LEGEND TOP LAD
25.07.2008 11:42
athers
e-mail: mickathers@hotmail.co.uk
dispicable
25.07.2008 17:43
Jenna heyes
e-mail: jenna_heyes@hotmail.co.uk
sad unpleasant soft arseholes
26.07.2008 06:39
warren tate..tat
e-mail: sab@hotmail.co.uk
Burnley
27.07.2008 08:53
blackburn lad
'Top lad'??!!!
27.07.2008 12:08
J.Simms
Whooppeeee the wicked prick is dead lol
28.07.2008 01:39
Their messages just show them up for the illiterate, threatening, sad little excuses for people they really are.
Ill certainly say it to your face you little slapper - anytime !
Rest of you do us all a favour and swing !!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
Thankfuckimnotaburnleyer !
wankers the lot of u
28.07.2008 18:45
gas chap
RE:
29.07.2008 01:55
28.07.2008 19:45
print my comments u hipocritical set o twats,like i said antifascists and fascists are all twats but u are all too stuck up your own phaphs to admit it,grow up stop arse licking and fuck the lot o u nasty wankers.
gas chap
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CASE AND POINT I THINK ? !
HOW THICK IS HE ? - RELATED TO LUKE WERE YA !
Thankfuckimnotaburnleyer
God Bless Luke - Rest in Peace
29.07.2008 18:12
I have read through the comments regarding Luke Smith and feel ashamed and disgusted. Just imagine how his grieving parents and family feel reading your vicious rubbish. Just what gives you the right to make such evil comments about a person you didn't even know?
Luke was a warm, funny, loyal and sensitive person who will be sadly missed and never forgotten by all who knew him.
He was neither a racist not a fascist - just a person who loved his country.
Your vicious comments cannot hurt him any more. You probably regard yourselves as being good people but in fact - maybe you are the bullies that made him react in the way that he did.
God Bless Luke
Georgia Hartley
georgia hartley
horrible cunts
29.07.2008 21:58
john doe
e-mail: jezbba@hotmail.com
disrespectful bastards
29.07.2008 23:43
friend of luke
Like I said........
30.07.2008 09:16
friend of luke
Spoken in the same mentality and illiterate waffle as Luke and other BNP sympathisers! Makes me laugh that you lot are so thick you really haven’t a clue what twats you are making of yourself – but carry on…………….we’re all having a bloody good laugh at you!
Like I said..........
GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE!
Derek Beackon-Sandwich
e-mail: arsehole@twatnetwork.com
Well rid
30.07.2008 14:28
JJ
Come on IMC
30.07.2008 19:52
29.07.2008 19:12
I have read through the comments regarding Luke Smith and feel ashamed and disgusted. Just imagine how his grieving parents and family feel reading your vicious rubbish. Just what gives you the right to make such evil comments about a person you didn't even know?
Luke was a warm, funny, loyal and sensitive person who will be sadly missed and never forgotten by all who knew him.
He was neither a racist not a fascist - just a person who loved his country.
Your vicious comments cannot hurt him any more. You probably regard yourselves as being good people but in fact - maybe you are the bullies that made him react in the way that he did.
God Bless Luke
Georgia Hartley
georgia hartley
Stop pandering to fascist trolls ffs. Luke Smith certainly WAS a racist, and an active fascist thug.
Fuck Luke Smith & the horse he rode in on.
Luke Smith - A thug mouned by more thugs
31.07.2008 16:51
Police were called after reports that mourners were hurling objects off a Burnley bridge following the funeral of a former BNP councillor.
Officers arrived at the Yorkshire Street bridge at 9pm on Tuesday after being told around 40 youths were causing a disturbance. The mourners had attended the funeral of Luke Smith, 26, of Brunshaw Road, who was found dead last week, police said. The convicted football hooligan, who was forced to resign as a councillor after continued allegations of violence, was said to have been suffering from psychological problems when he appeared in court earlier this month charged with assault.
Sgt Phil Carter, of Burnley police, said: “Police dispersed the group on Tuesday soon after arriving and no arrests were made.”
It is believed the mourners had been drinking in the Lounge pub, in nearby Higgin Street, following Mr Smith’s funeral. Yesterday a large banner was hung from a bridge in Yorkshire Street with the message “Luke Smith lives forever”.
Speaking last week, Mr Smith’s uncle, Steve Smith, who was the BNP leader in Burnley when his nephew was elected, and is now leader of the far-right England First party, said: “He was a lovely, lovely lad who, like a lot of people, was just too sensitive to exist in what is effectively an extremely cruel world. Things had gone downhill for him.”
Mr Smith was 21 when he was elected as councillor for Lanehead ward, in May 2003. But he was suspended from the BNP less than three months later, after it emerged previous football-related violence had earned him a lifetime ban from Turf Moor, and he was alleged to have been fighting at the party’s Red, White and Blue festival in Sawley in July that year.
In September 2004, after a full investigation by the Standards Board for England, he was banned for three years from becoming a member of any council across the UK.
Earlier in 2004, the former gas engineer had been given a two-and-a-half year football banning order, and he was jailed for 11 months in March 2006, after breaching the order and being involved in football-related violence in Manchester, Blackpool and Burnley. His football banning order was extended to six years.
In his latest court appearance, on July 14, he was charged with assault after an attack on the landlord of the Princess Royal – the pub near where he was found dead.
Lancashire Telegraph
Antifascist
kama,s coming for u
31.07.2008 21:48
none
LEAST WE FORGET NO SURRENDER
01.08.2008 05:01
graham from scotland
you cant comment on people u dont know discrace!!!
10.08.2008 17:22
hamer
Throw another Nazi on the fire
14.08.2008 19:34
A criminal stole meat worth more than £200 for a barbecue following the funeral of a former British National Party councillor.
Burnley magistrates heard how Norman "Knuckles" Jones took the £216 haul, including steaks, from the town's Tesco, for a wake after the death of 27-year-old Luke Smith, who was found hanged in Yorkshire Street on July 20th.
Jones (58), who has a long criminal record, admitted theft.
The defendant, of Williams Road, Burnley, was given a three-month curfew between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., but it was lifted on Saturday, so the convicted soccer thug could take his children to the Sheffield Wednesday match. He must also pay £75 costs.
A district judge told Jones if he had wanted to give Mr Smith a good send-off, items from the shelves at Tesco had to be paid for.
Mr Richard Taylor (defending) said Jones had recently been diagnosed with angina. He had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity and the property was recovered. The solicitor added: "He is getting too old for this kind of thing and he knows it."
JJ
RIP luke
17.12.2008 18:43
he just wanted to make a point and a right point at that all you lot are letting the f,ing asians take over this town. the quicker gone the better
toby
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