A FAR-RIGHT nationalist movement is mobilising its ranks for a protest outside Chelmsford Magistrates' Court tomorrow (January 5) when its leader appears on trial.
Britain First says it will crowd outside the New Street court from 9am on Monday as Paul Golding enters the dock.
The 32-year-old, of Sprucedale Road in Swanley, Kent, is charged with harassing Munazza Munawar at her home in Hepburn Close in Chafford Hundred on April 3.
He is also charged with "wearing uniform signifying association with a political organisation, namely his Britain First uniform".
Yet Golding claims he only visited Ms Munawar's address to expose a man he believed was an Al Qaeda terrorist. He denied the two charges at a preliminary Basildon Magistrates' Court hearing in September.
In a 1,300-word message on the group's website, deputy leader Jayda Fransen condemns the Crown Prosecution Service's case and asks members to donate to Golding's legal fees.
"Will you stand with Paul considering all the grief, aggravation and danger he has endured for our sake?," writes Ms Fransen.
"This is perhaps one of the most serious e-mails we have ever sent out and Paul is depending on good solid patriots like you helping him beat this ridiculous attempt to silence him or worst still, lock him up so he cannot cause them any more embarrassment."
Britain First, an offshoot of the British National Party formed in 2011, has marched and campaigned against mass immigration and what it believes is the "Islamisation" of the UK.
The group has more than 600,000 "likes" on social media site Facebook.
Dover politicians Charlie Elphicke MP, a Conserviative, and Clair Hawkins, Labour, condemned the group as "racist thugs" and troublemakers when Britain First marched through the Kent town in September.
Police oversaw a 50-strong march by the English Defence League, also a far-right nationalist party, from the Wheatsheaf pub, beside the magistrates' court in Chelmsford, in August 2012, when residents condemned their actions too.
