Jay Lee was a British National Party (BNP) member, who fought a legal battle after being expelled from a trade union.
Lee, a driver for Virgin CrossCountry, stood as a BNP candidate in the 2002 local elections in Bexley and was subsequently expelled from the train drivers' union ASLEF for BNP membership.
[3] Lee also sued for libel after he was described as a racist, seeking aggravated damages from two senior trade unionists and two journalists.
[4] ASLEF subsequently took the UK Government to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming that UK law was in breach of Article 11 (freedom of assembly and association) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
[6] Lee left the BNP in 2010 due to disagreements with the Nick Griffin leadership.