The content creator said his previous views were “indefensible”.
He said: “When I was first released from prison in 2018, I was supported by many of the people in my local community who understood that I had made some awful mistakes but was wanting to change my life around.”
Bonehill-Paine made the decision to reform his previous extremist views when he heard about the murder of MP Jo Cox during his prison sentence.
“I felt an enormous sense of emotion – of grief and of anger that this lady had been murdered by a far-right extremist,” he said.
“This was a mother, a wife, who had been viciously murdered in cold blood and I started to question why it was that I was supporting a right-wing ideology.”
He undertook a de-radicalisation programme and now delivers counter-extremism sessions around the UK.
Source:
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