David Copeland

David Copeland, also known as the "London nailbomber," perpetrated a number of neo-Nazi terrorist bombings in 1999 in London aimed at ethnic minorities and homosexuals. The bomb attacks in Brixton, Brick Lane and the Admiral Duncan pub (in Old Compton Street) killed three people, and injured and maimed over a hundred more men, women and children, many of whom were pierced by the nails inserted in the bombs by Copeland.

Copeland was a member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement and a former member of the British National Party, which he left claiming they were "too democratic".

He was tracked down by the Anti-Terrorist Branch of the Metropolitan Police Service who performed exhaustive analysis of CCTV footage of the areas around the bombings as part of their investigation.

Copeland was sentenced to six life sentences in 2000.