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David Copeland (born 15 May 1976) is an English Neo-Nazi militant who became known as the "London Nail Bomber" after a 13-day bombing campaign in April 1999 aimed at London's black, South Asian and gay communities that resulted in three people killed and more than a hundred injured.〔Buncombe, Andrew; Judd, Terri; and Bennett, Jason. ("'Hate-filled' nailbomber is jailed for life" ), ''The Independent'', 30 June 2000.〕 Widely labelled a terrorist,〔 Copeland was a former member of two far-right political groups, the British National Party and then the National Socialist Movement. Over three successive weekends between 17 and 30 April 1999, Copeland placed homemade nail bombs, each containing up to 1,500 four-inch nails, in holdalls that he left in public spaces around London. The first bomb was placed outside the Iceland supermarket in Electric Avenue, Brixton, an area of south London with a large black population. The second was in Brick Lane in the East End of London, which has a large Bangladeshi community. The third was inside the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho's Old Compton Street, the heart of London's gay community. The bombs killed three people, including a pregnant woman, and injured 140, four of whom lost limbs. Copeland was diagnosed by five psychiatrists as having paranoid schizophrenia, while one diagnosed a personality disorder not serious enough to avoid a charge of murder. His plea of guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility was not accepted by the prosecution or jury.〔Hopkins, Nick and Hall, Sarah. ("David Copeland: a quiet introvert, obsessed with Hitler and bombs" ), ''The Guardian'', 30 June 2000.〕 He was convicted of murder on 30 June 2000, and given six concurrent life sentences.〔 In 2007 the High Court ruled that he must serve at least 50 years.〔 He appealed the ruling, which the Court of Appeal upheld in 2011.〔("Nail bomber David Copeland loses sentence appeal" ), ''BBC News'', 28 June 2011.〕 ==Early life== Copeland was born in Isleworth,〔 in the London Borough of Hounslow. His father was an engineer and his mother was a housewife. He lived for most of his childhood with his parents and two brothers in Yateley, Hampshire, attending Yateley School, where he obtained seven GCSEs before leaving in 1992. British journalist Nick Ryan writes that, as a teenager, Copeland feared he was homosexual; when his parents sang along to the ''Flintstones'' theme on television—"we'll have a gay old time"—he reportedly believed they were sending him a message. As an older teenager, he began listening to heavy metal bands and earned himself the nickname "Mr. Angry." Ryan writes that the staff at his school have no recollection of him during this period. It was as if he had become invisible.〔Ryan, Nick. ''Into a World of Hate: A Journey among the Extreme Right''. Routledge, 2004, p. 83.〕 After his arrest in 1999, he told psychiatrists that he had started having sadistic dreams when he was about 12, including dreams or fantasies that he had been reincarnated as an SS officer with access to women as slaves.〔Clarke, Pat and Raif, Shenai. ("Bomber 'dreamt of Nazi sex slaves'" ), ''The Independent'', 16 June 2000.〕 He left school to a series of failed jobs, reportedly blaming immigrants for the difficult job market. He became involved in petty crime, drinking, and drug abuse. His father was eventually able to get him a job as an engineer's assistant on the London Underground.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Copeland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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