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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Family’s neo-Nazi music band ‘didn’t mean for racist lyrics to be taken literally’, court told

The trial took place at Woolwich Crown Court - (Nick Ansell/PA)

A father and his two children who were found guilty of racial hatred offences after performing neo-Nazi songs at a gig “did not mean for their lyrics to be taken literally”, a court has heard.

Robert Talland, 59, organised a gig at the Corpus Christi Club in Leeds on September 21 2019 at which his son Stephen, 36, and his daughter Rosie, 33, performed songs that incited racial hatred.

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