Behind the growing phenomenon of far-right street patrols

A mysterious hooded figure, silhouetted by street lights on a moody city street on a foggy night (Image: Archive)

IT’S a dank evening in Peterhead and someone is walking the streets of the north-east town filming people. The man, seemingly drunk, is live-streaming himself on Facebook and announces he’s on night patrol to protect the community.

He makes lewd and ­homophobic ­remarks and says: “I’m looking for fucking paedo illegals [sic]”, ­referring to asylum seekers. As the man ­continues his “patrol”, he shouts abuse at police and ­apparently ­urinates in the street. At one point, he films a young blonde woman dressed in black, walking alone. “She’s ­gorgeous,” he says, ­recording her from behind. He also makes ­sexualised jokes after conversing with young people in a car and says: “I’ll hae a wank to you.”