A notorious far-right extremist who made sick jokes about Jewish people being exterminated during the "Holohoax" faces a jail term after being convicted of trying to trick girls into a bizarre sex experiment.
Simon Sheppard and his extremist racist views have caused serious upset and controversy in the past. Sheppard, who has recently been residing in Bridlington, turned his attention to sexual exploitation of vulnerable children, Hull Live writes.
The 65-year-old went on trial at Hull Crown Court accused of two offences involving attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child on August 12.
He gave four teenagers a card inviting them to take part in a "sexperiment" which would have involved having sex with them. They did not accept Sheppard's invitations, however, and reported the incidents to their parents, who alerted the police.He was convicted by a jury after a trial and was remanded in custody for pre-sentence reports.Sheppard was warned that he faces a prison sentence for the offences.He had been jailed for nine months at York Crown Court in June 2018 after being convicted by a jury of using racially aggravated words to a Sky engineer.He had "barracked" the man while he was working on a satellite dish at a neighbour's flat in June 2017.Sheppard, then living in Selby, was also given a five-year criminal behaviour order.He had told the court that he was not happy that a black man had been given a flat in his block of flats and denied intending the neighbour to overhear racist abuse.It had been claimed that Sheppard regularly used a racist word when he saw the neighbour.In 2008, Sheppard claimed asylum in the United States under freedom of speech laws after failing to turn up at court towards the end of a
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