From The Telegraph
A Muslim man has been jailed for eight years after stabbing to death a BNP activist neighbour who had racially abused him.
Habib Khan, 50, was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter after a jury heard he had been tormented for years by his neighbour over a planning dispute.
Stafford Crown Court heard that Khan, described as a "mild and calm-mannered family man", had intended to use the knife to threaten Mr Brown, who had hold of one of his sons.
Judge Simon Tonking said Khan had acted "in the honest belief that he needed to protect his son" but in doing so had killed his next door neighbour Mr Brown.  He added: "It is beyond question that, by acting in the way that he did, Mr Khan killed Mr Brown unlawfully and, whatever their differences, the fact is that Mr Brown lost his life. "That is a consequence for which Mr Khan must be punished with a significant custodial sentence."
The court heard that the families' feud began when Khan put in a planning application to build a new house on his land a few years prior to the incident.  Mr Brown objected and when permission was granted and building work began, he "took steps to obstruct it". The situation escalated over the years, with one incident leaving Khan in hospital.
Judge Tonking ordered that Khan serve consecutively six-and-a-half years for manslaughter and 18 months for wounding Mr Brown's son.
Mr Brown and his son had been leafleting for the BNP a year earlier, the court heard, and the party's leader, Nick Griffin, had attended Mr Brown's funeral. Speaking outside the court, Stoke-on-Trent BNP members slammed the sentence, which they said did not reflect the severity of the crime.
BNP Councillor Michael Coleman said the court case was an example of "liberal politics going on".  He criticised Staffordshire Police for "going softly on ethnic minorities" and being hard with "the indigenous population of this island."
A very unpleasant affair.