The leader of a little-known right wing political party appeared in court on Wednesday to deny a charge of racially aggravated public disorder.
Kevin Quinn, of the Britain First Party, was answering charges relating to an incident in South Oxhey on Saturday, December 1, last year.
Watford Magistrates' Court heard Mr Quinn deny using racially offensive, abusive and upsetting language during an impromptu political address at the St Andrews Road shopping precinct.
Flanked in Court One by four party loyalists, Quinn, of Ouseland Road, Bedford, pleaded not guilty to an offence under Section 4A of the Public Order Act and was committed for trial by Crown Court at a date to be confirmed.
It is alleged that after setting up a small, Union Flag covered table, a megaphone wielding Mr Quinn subjected passers by to a stream of racially offensive comments, during which he branded all Muslims as terrorists and urged other minority groups to return to "their own countries".
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