Immigration protesters shoulder to shoulder with loyalist killer
Posted by Jim on July 27, 2025
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Immigration protesters shoulder to shoulder with loyalist killer
Far-right activists accompanied Glen Kane to court hours before demonstration in Newtownabbey.
Glen Kane and his friends after his court appearance
John Toner
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Far-right activists took part in an anti-immigration protest outside a Co Antrim hotel just hours after accompanying loyalist killer Glen Kane to court.
Among those involved in the demonstration at the Chimney Corner hotel in Newtownabbey was convicted armed robber Mark Sinclair, who goes by ‘Freedom Dad’ online, and conspiracy theorist Stephen Baker.
Kane, who was jailed for nine years for being part of a mob which kicked to death Catholic man Kieran Abram in 1992, posed for pictures with the group outside Laganside court complex in Belfast ahead of the protest.
Speaking in a short video circulated on social media, standing alongside masked men, he said: “That’s me up in court again today. There are ongoing enquiries into me and I’m back up on the 14th of August.”
Later that evening, Baker and Sinclair were prominent during the protest outside the Chimney Corner hotel in which several dozen people blocked the Antrim Road while waving placards and holding an anti-immigration banner.
Ex-UVF thug Mark Sinclair is the cousin of William Moore, a notorious murderer and member of the Shankill Butchers.
His pal Stephen Baker was a prominent anti-vaxxer and anti-lockdown protester during the Covid-19 pandemic and was convicted of breaching coronavirus regulations in 2021.
Baker, who is a gardener by trade, has now switched his attention to anti-immigration agitation.
Posting a video on a Facebook account called The Great Province-Wide Protest NI, he said: “Now folks I am calling for a protest at Chimney Corner, if yous want to keep them off your streets yous need to stand in front of their houses to stop them leaving.
“This is how we do it folks, we are quite within our right to go to this habitation of these dangerous men and petition against them being here. We want them gone and we want redress for our grievances.”
Earlier on Thursday, Glen Kane’s lawyer was warned that an argument to dismiss a charge of inciting racial hatred was “not likely to succeed”.
Kane, from Riga Street in Belfast, is on bail facing a charge of possessing material with intent to stir up racial hatred on August 10 last year.
With the case set to be heard in September, his defence team lodged an application for the case to be thrown out, citing an abuse of process.
However, District Judge Francis Rafferty told Kane’s solicitor: “For what it’s worth, from what information I have, (the abuse of process motion) is not likely to succeed.”
Kane’s lawyer Keith Gamble said the author of the written material had been interviewed by police and was likely to be prosecuted as well, adding: “It might seem strange.. we might want the author of the tract to come to court.”
Judge Rafferty adjourned the matter until September, saying: “It’s not for me to direct how the defence approach the case, but you may take your chance.”
The court previously heard police searched Kane’s home last August under a warrant and seized several items.
These included UVF badges, a Britain First key-tag, UVF and LVF flags, a UVF picture, a British National Party DVD, two Britain First hats, a UFF snood and about 100 copies of a publication.
The publication allegedly referenced the UK’s “immigration crisis”, but further details of its contents have not yet been aired in court.
Kane said during a recent YouTube interview: “I’m not far right, I’m not a racist.”
Some of the same far-right protesters involved in the Chimney Corner hotel demonstration also picketed a Coptic Christian church on Belfast’s Shankill Road last weekend.
Racist, anti-Islamic graffiti was daubed on the Berlin Street premises by thugs unaware Coptic Christians are not Muslims.