Police are seeking information on Huw “Badger” Norfolk, who’s wanted in connection with two serious crimes and thought to be part of an anarchist network linked to several arson attacks.
Police are offering a £10,000 reward for information about Huw "Badger" Norfolk, 27, an anarchist wanted in connection with serious crimes in Bristol and Bath.
Norfolk has long been linked to anarchist groups in the southwest of England that are thought to be responsible for scores of incidents and, according to one estimate, £20 million of damage in the last few years.
Police said he often gives false names such as Geoffry and Howard and has several tattoos, including "anarchy" and "peace" on his left arm. He wasn't described as an immediate danger to the public, but police asked people to contact them if they saw him.
Norfolk is wanted in connection with an arson attack on a phone mast in January 2013 near Bath which police say left 80,000 homes and businesses cut off, and for smashing windows and throwing paint over the Bristol Post's office during the August 2011 riots.
Detective chief inspector Andy Bevan, who is leading Operation Rhone, the force's investigation into these crimes, said:
He may not be in England or the UK and could possibly be in Europe or further afield. He has links to anarchist communities and the areas and surrounding areas of Bristol, Bath, Cheltenham, Pembrokeshire, and London.
We do not believe he is an immediate danger to the public although we would advise anyone spotting him not to approach him but to contact police instead.
Operation Rhone is investigating more than 100 incidents of arson and criminal damage, but Norfolk is wanted in relation to two only.
And of course as the clash continues and escalates with increasing recognition that everything we desire lies beyond the ruin of their rule, the enemy will carry on retaliating against those people with every vile method in their book: propaganda to misrepresent our passions and aims; the loyal "opposition" of political parties and unions presented as the democratically acceptable way we should amend our "extreme" expressions to; the surveillance, infiltration and invasion of our friendship groups and spaces; the arrest, interrogation and imprisonment of our comrades-in-struggle.
In 2012, on Norfolk's birthday, supporters visited the Post office wearing badger masks.
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