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Far right mob Britain First launch ‘migrant patrol’ ship off Dover
Refugee rights organisations raise concerns over Priti Patel's plans to use Royal Navy to make the Channel ‘unviable’ for migrants
Britain First leader Paul Golding during a march through London in 2017

FAR-RIGHT mob Britain First launched a sailing ship at the weekend to carry out “migrant patrols” in the Channel.

The hate group, whose leader Paul Golding was convicted of an offence under the Terrorism Act earlier this year and was jailed in 2018 for anti-Muslim hate crimes, said the ship, Alfred the Great, spent the day patrolling the waters around Dover searching for “illegal migrants.”

In a video filmed on board and posted on the bigoted group’s website, the ship’s “captain,” Royal Navy veteran Samuel Cochrane, claimed the group would assist any migrants they found in the sea.

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