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Five whites jailed for race hate campaign in UK

     London: Publishing a magazine designed to spark racial violence in Britain has landed five white males in jail. According to a report in The Sun, Old Bailey Judge Jeremy Roberts sentenced 38-year-old Mark Atkinson of Egham, Surrey to five years in prison, while the other four -- Jonathon Hill, 33, of Oldham; Nigel Piggins, 39, of Hull; Steven Bostock, 27, of Urmston, Gtr Manchester, and Michael Denis, 30, of Tooting, South London -- received reduced prison terms. All five were charged with using their Racial Volunteer Forces Stormer magazine to provide the general public with a step-by- step guide on making a nailbomb and a petrol bomb, running a racist web site and for distributing a DVD promoted by the racist pop group Skrewdriver. Judge Roberts told the accused that they were not being sentenced for their political beliefs, but for attempting to "encourage readers to resort to violence against people with non-white backgrounds". The five were held in raids across Britain.