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January 9, 2014updated 10 Jan 2014 2:18pm

Express & Star exposes Ku Klux Klan racist after ‘important press freedom’ battle

By Darren Boyle

The Express & Star in Wolverhampton has succeeded in overturning a Section 11 order banning the publication of the address of a man convicted of posting videos of himself dressed in a Ku Klux Klan uniform.

Christopher Philips, 24 from Wednesfield, Wolverhampton pleaded guilty to stirring up racial hatred by uploading a video on Youtube of him dressed in his KKK outfit lynching a life-sized golliwog doll.

Philips used Facebook and Youtube to express his extremist views as well as supporting Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik.

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