Hateland

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Only a month after his arrest for planting bombs which killed three & mutilated scores in London in 1999, Nazi nailbomber David Copeland began a passionate correspondence with a delightful young English rose called Patsy. As he awaited trial, Copeland bombarded Patsy with letters detailing his disturbed background, crackpot beliefs & most intimate feelings. Through letters alone, he fell madly in love with his tender-hearted penfriend. But Copeland wasn't writing to the petite 20-year-old blonde of his imagination. His 'sweetheart' was in fact a burly 40-year-old nightclub bouncer called Bernard O' Mahoney, who in the past had used the same means to coax confessions from two child-killers. O' Mahoney's earlier hoaxes helped secure life sentences for these murderers & so too did his correspondence with Copeland when the letters surfaced at the nailbomber's Old Bailey trial. But the extraordinary tale of how O' Mahoney snared Copeland is only a small part of Hateland's larger, more remarkable story. For the book is primarily the narrative of O' Mahoney's own gradual transition from Nazi thug to Nazi opponent. It marks his public renunciation of the hate-filled world he left behind & of the racist misfit he once was. In Hatel&, O' Mahoney writes with unblinking honesty about the violence he inflicted upon others, & that which he was subjected to, during his time as a foot soldier of fascism. His frank analysis of his background, motivation & actions produces a disturbing self-portrait that offers a chilling but often darkly comic insight into many of the strange individuals who constitute Britain's fascist movement. Gradually disillusioned & ashamed
- partly as a result of his unexpected friendships with blacks & Asians
- O' Mahoney's decisive break with his Nazi past comes when he infiltrates.........