The man who interrupted West Country MP Jacob Rees-Mogg’s speech at a conference this week to warn about the rise of fascism is the father of a Bristol woman who was killed in Syria fighting Islamic State.
Dirk Campbell took over the microphone from the North East Somerset MP at the exclusive 'National Conservatism' conference, where a number of ministers and MPs spoke this week. The 72-year-old was one of several people who infiltrated the conference and disrupted it.
In 2018, Mr Campbell’s daughter Anna, a plumber from Easton in Bristol, was killed by a Turkish Air Force air strike in the Rojava conflict between Kurds and Islamic State, during the Syrian Civil War.
