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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Danny Lockwood, born 15 December 1958, is the publisher of the Rugby League newspaper League Weekly, former amateur Rugby league player, and a convicted violent criminal. He is also the owner and publisher of The Press, a weekly local newspaper based in Batley, West Yorkshire.As an amateur Rugby league player Lockwood was once selected to represent Great Britain (BARLA). His main clubs were Dewsbury Celtic and Bradford Dudley Hill. Lockwood never played professionally.As a journalist Lockwood has worked on the Yorkshire Post, West Australian and Yorkshire Evening Post among other titles. In 1993 he became editor of the (now) Johnston Press weekly local Dewsbury Reporter and, later, their Lancaster Guardian title.Lockwood launched The Press in 2002 and continued as editor and columnist through several apparent ownership changes. In 2011 Lockwood claimed that he "saved" the publication after serious financial problems.In 2007 Lockwood was the subject of a high profile libel trial initiated by the then Dewbury MP Shahid Malik, which ended in a hung jury after a two-week trial at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. During the trial Mr Lockwood when confronted with unequivocal evidence had to admit that he had told lies in legal correspondence with Bindman's solicitors. The case was subsequently dropped after Lockwood published a written apology to the claimant.In 2010 Lockwood caused a large-scale protest outside Dewsbury police station when he wrote about the recent Cumbrian mass murderer Derrick Bird saying “If Derrick Bird had been carrying a Koran he would have been celebrated as a hero by tens of thousands, possibly more of so called “British” Muslims”.In December 2011 Lockwood self-published a book called The Islamic Republic of Dewsbury. It is descried as "the story of a cultural revolution and social decay in the once-proud Yorkshire mill town of Dewsbury" and "a chronicle of more than 20 years of failed multi-culturalism." Critics have described the book as "a vanity-publishing exercise in anti-Muslim scaremongering".In 2012, Lockwood admitted in his Ed Lines column to attending a far-right meeting held in Bradford. The “Nationalist Unity" meeting was hosted by members of The National Front, The British Movement and The British People's Party, along with Yorkshire MEP Andrew Brons of the far-right British National Party.In 2014, Lockwood was found guilty at Kirklees Magistrates Court of assault by beating. In April 2013 Lockwood violently attacked, headbutted and punched a man who had accused his newspaper, The Press, of being "racist" and "discriminatory". The court heard how Lockwood headbutted and repeatedly punched the victim in the face and arms, causing his face to be covered in blood and rendering him blinded in his left eye. The man was taken by ambulance to Dewsbury and District Hospital where he received five stitches. The victim claimed to have been trying to apologise and shake Lockwood's hand at the time. Ten months later, in court, the victim claimed his vision was still affected by the attack.. }

• Danny_Lockwood abstract "Danny Lockwood, born 15 December 1958, is the publisher of the Rugby League newspaper League Weekly, former amateur Rugby league player, and a convicted violent criminal. He is also the owner and publisher of The Press, a weekly local newspaper based in Batley, West Yorkshire.As an amateur Rugby league player Lockwood was once selected to represent Great Britain (BARLA). His main clubs were Dewsbury Celtic and Bradford Dudley Hill. Lockwood never played professionally.As a journalist Lockwood has worked on the Yorkshire Post, West Australian and Yorkshire Evening Post among other titles. In 1993 he became editor of the (now) Johnston Press weekly local Dewsbury Reporter and, later, their Lancaster Guardian title.Lockwood launched The Press in 2002 and continued as editor and columnist through several apparent ownership changes. In 2011 Lockwood claimed that he "saved" the publication after serious financial problems.In 2007 Lockwood was the subject of a high profile libel trial initiated by the then Dewbury MP Shahid Malik, which ended in a hung jury after a two-week trial at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. During the trial Mr Lockwood when confronted with unequivocal evidence had to admit that he had told lies in legal correspondence with Bindman's solicitors. The case was subsequently dropped after Lockwood published a written apology to the claimant.In 2010 Lockwood caused a large-scale protest outside Dewsbury police station when he wrote about the recent Cumbrian mass murderer Derrick Bird saying “If Derrick Bird had been carrying a Koran he would have been celebrated as a hero by tens of thousands, possibly more of so called “British” Muslims”.In December 2011 Lockwood self-published a book called The Islamic Republic of Dewsbury. It is descried as "the story of a cultural revolution and social decay in the once-proud Yorkshire mill town of Dewsbury" and "a chronicle of more than 20 years of failed multi-culturalism." Critics have described the book as "a vanity-publishing exercise in anti-Muslim scaremongering".In 2012, Lockwood admitted in his Ed Lines column to attending a far-right meeting held in Bradford. The “Nationalist Unity" meeting was hosted by members of The National Front, The British Movement and The British People's Party, along with Yorkshire MEP Andrew Brons of the far-right British National Party.In 2014, Lockwood was found guilty at Kirklees Magistrates Court of assault by beating. In April 2013 Lockwood violently attacked, headbutted and punched a man who had accused his newspaper, The Press, of being "racist" and "discriminatory". The court heard how Lockwood headbutted and repeatedly punched the victim in the face and arms, causing his face to be covered in blood and rendering him blinded in his left eye. The man was taken by ambulance to Dewsbury and District Hospital where he received five stitches. The victim claimed to have been trying to apologise and shake Lockwood's hand at the time. Ten months later, in court, the victim claimed his vision was still affected by the attack.".