{"id":164267,"date":"2022-09-24T18:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T18:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=164267"},"modified":"2022-09-24T18:37:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T18:37:24","slug":"ex-neo-nazi-mole-thwarted-mp-murder-plot-and-is-now-subject-of-bbc-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/ex-neo-nazi-mole-thwarted-mp-murder-plot-and-is-now-subject-of-bbc-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-neo Nazi mole thwarted MP murder plot and is now subject of BBC drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reformed neo-Nazi whose experiences inspired Stephen Graham\u2019s new TV drama risked his life to stop fascists \u2013 and says it was worth it.<\/p>\n

Former National Front and BNP boot-boy Matthew Collins turned whistleblower to help root out dangerous right-wing radicals, but says more need to be done. Police have warned him he faces being shot and he has been battered on the street for informing on the groups.<\/p>\n

But his work exposed Jack Renshaw\u2019s bid to hack Labour MP Rosie Cooper to death with a 19in \u2018Gladiator machete\u2019. And he said: \u201cAt the end of the day, people always ask if it was worth it. I think yes. I hope some way I\u2019ve helped make this country a safer and better place to live.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Matthew\u2019s story has been made into a five-part drama The Walk In, airing on ITV from Monday, October 3. Renshaw\u2019s murderous plot to slaughter the Lancashire MP was foiled by Matt, now 50, during his work for anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate.<\/p>\n

Renshaw, 27, of Skelmersdale, Lancashire, was a convicted child sex offender, terrorist and former spokesperson for the banned far-right group National Action. He was handed a life sentence for a minimum of 20 years in May 2019 for preparing to kill his local MP Ms Cooper and threatening to kill a police officer who was investigating him for grooming young boys.<\/p>\n

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The Walk In centres on Robbie Mullen \u2013 an informant for the antifascism campaign group Hope Not hate – and how the organisation infiltrated NA and prevented the attack.<\/p>\n

Matthew told us: \u201cWe run 22 informants in the far-right now. Wherever they have a meeting or wherever they go, we have someone telling us about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are mostly idiots, but they are still dangerous as they are taking lessons in bomb making from the likes of manuals like The Anarchist\u2019s Cookbook, and making devices that are still effective.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the police are totally misunderstanding where the far-right is coming from now. Yes, there is the football hooligan element, but a lot of them are anti-royalist and anti-loyalist.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese sad, angry young men see it as part of an establishment. They will go overseas and learn how to shoot guns like AK47s, which isn\u2019t much use back in leafy England.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they can still make crude guns which are effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matthew was forced to flee Britain and go into hiding in the 1990s when he became a mole from within the BNP, but now lives back in the UK battling British-based fascists.<\/p>\n

He joined the NF while growing up in a tough, deprived part of south London with high unemployment, and fell for their recruitment drive of disillusioned young men.<\/p>\n