![]() The "new" C18 has promised further bloodletting against the faction remaining loyal to Sargent (now called the National Socialist Movement). In its magazine Strikeforce, it proclaims itself to be "revolutionary" and promises an international terrorist campaign, a threat that Special Branch is taking seriously. ![]() This second, even more extreme faction - led by Charlie Sargent's former right-hand man (who cannot be named for legal reasons) - is now in the ascendancy, and has seized the Combat 18 name. The bombs were sent to enemies on the far right, as well as to swimming star Sharron Davies, who has a black husband. The faction opposed to Sargent made headlines last year when they initiated a letter-bombing campaign with help from Danish neo- Nazis. Both Sargent and Cross had previous convictions for violence and other offences: Sargent had two drug-related convictions, in addition to one for possession of a gun Cross was sentenced to two years imprisonment in 1992 after unlawfully wounding a man with an axe.Ĭastle's murder followed months of infighting over control of a lucrative and illegal neo-Nazi music business, and arguments about C18's strategy and direction. Police described the stabbing as "an execution". The court heard that immediately after the attack, Cross had referred to Castle as "a casualty of war". The pathologist Dr Michael Heath noted how the 22cm wound which penetrated Castle's lungs and heart was caused by a 20cm knife. Acting as a go-between for two rival C18 factions, he had come to exchange Sargent's plastering tools for membership lists and pounds 1,000 in cash. There, Castle was ambushed and stabbed in the back. ![]() Together with his close friend Martin Cross, Sargent had lured Christopher "Catford Chris" Castle, aged 28, to a mobile home in Harlow, Essex, on 10 February last year.
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