Family guilty of using Neo-Nazi music to incite racial hatred
The court heard 56 year old Robert Talland organised a gig in Leeds in 2019 - where a band performed songs promoting racist violence.
A father and his two adult children have been found guilty of creating and distributing neo-Nazi music which promoted terrorism and incited racial hatred.
Robert Talland, 56, his son Stephen, 36, and daughter Rosie, 34, all from Essex, were convicted following a nine-week trial at Woolwich Crown Court.
All three were found guilty of stirring up racial hatred while Robert was also convicted of two offences of encouraging terrorism.
He was described as a leading figure in the "Blood & Honour" network - a far-right extremist movement which organised gigs and sold merchandise for white power bands.
Robert also ran a record label, Rampage Productions, which distributed CDs by groups promoting neo-Nazi ideology.
His children Stephen and Rosie played in one of those bands, Embers Of An Empire, which he managed.
The trio were arrested in October 2020 following a year-long investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing North East.
During the trial, jurors were told that Robert Talland organised a gig at the Corpus Christi Club in Leeds in September 2019, where Embers Of An Empire performed songs promoting racist violence.
CCTV captured audience members making Nazi salutes.
Police searching his home found hundreds of CDs containing white supremacist lyrics, along with neo-Nazi banners and Blood & Honour memorabilia.
Some lyrics were found to encourage extreme right-wing terrorism.
Detective Chief Superintendent James Dunkerley, head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, said: "Robert, Stephen and Rosie Talland were part of a network of hatred which had encouraged violence and extreme right-wing terrorism across Europe for decades.
"Robert Talland dismissed the group as an 'old man's drinking club', but through the gigs and events they organised, they promoted music which glorified acts of murder to audiences which included young children.
"In doing so, they encouraged attitudes of hatred, intolerance and violence which have no place in our society."
He added: "We need the public's help to do our work. If you hear or see anything that doesn't feel right, trust your instincts and report it in confidence at gov.uk/ACT."
The family are due to be sentenced on August 28.
Blood & Honour was founded in 1987 by the late Ian Stuart Donaldson, frontman of the white power band Skrewdriver.
The group promotes racist, anti-semitic, anti-Communist and anti-LGBT violence and was hit with a UK asset-freezing order in January over suspected terror links.