Simon Sheppard (activist)

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Simon Sheppard

Simon Sheppard is a neo-nazi activist and an ex-member of the British National Party. Sheppard presents himself as a psychologist, but there is no evidence that he holds any qualifications in this field. He claims to have applied game theory and evolutionary psychology to the analysis of competition between the sexes and between different races and runs a website, heretical.com, devoted to publicizing his theories of Procedural Analysis and his interests. His website expresses hatred of Jews and women, with black people and others as its secondary targets. One section contains photographs of Jews in Nazi death camps, with mocking, insulting captions.

On June 8, 1999 Sheppard and David Hannam were arrested in Hull for distributing racist election literature on behalf of the British National Party (BNP). On June 18 the BNP expelled Sheppard (though not, it seems, Hannam) from the party, and on June 14, 2000 Sheppard was convicted at Hull Crown Court of publishing or distributing racially inflammatory material. The leaflet and Sheppard's own account of his trial can be seen on his website.

Sheppard was one of the far-right activists who set up the Redwatch web-page, an explicitly neo-Nazi site that openly promotes violence against left-wing opponents of Sheppard's political views. [1] Many people have received death threats after their details appeared on the site, including Members of Parliament and their families. [2]

Sheppard continues to be involved with hate-site Redwatch. In 2005 his house was raided by police in connection with death threats made by others towards various figures, including left-wing comedian Mark Thomas. [3]

Sheppard is also the official owner of skrewdriver.net.