NEWS.com.au | ANM leader and deputies deny charge of racist arson plot (January 12, 2005)

WHITE supremacist leader Jack Van Tongeren and two of his deputies in the neo-nazi Australian Nationalist Movement denied yesterday they were plotting to reprise the group's racist firebombing campaign against Perth's Asian community. Van Tongeren, 57, John Anthony Van Blitterswyk, 53, and Matthew Peter Billing, 33, all appeared in the WA District Court to plead not guilty to a charge of conspiring to commit arson. Appearing in the dock in shackles, Van Tongeren spoke only to plead to the charge that he and his co-accused conspired to firebomb four Chinese restaurants in the Perth suburbs of Willeton, Karawara and Ferndale between June 1 and July 16 last year.