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Marcello Mega

BNP candidate 'carved women-hating insults into his wife's flesh with a knife'

A wife has told how her BNP candidate husband carved woman-hating insults into her flesh with a knife.

Brave Claire Burgoyne, 40, has told of the years she spent married to right-wing thug Michael Coyle, who tried to get elected to Westminster in 2010 and Holyrood in 2011 as a National Front and BNP candidate.

Coyle, a former soldier, is awaiting sentence after being found guilty of raping Claire during years of abuse and the attempted rape of another victim.

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