Far right activist Scott Delaney jailed in UK for drugs haul after years on the run

Sunday World

06-05-2025

Delaney has become one of Ireland's most prominent far right influencers and has amassed thousands of followers on social media.
Scott Delaney, also known as Scott Knight is an outspoken far-right supporter
The convicted drug dealer and son of gangland killer 'Cotton Eye' Joe Delaney has been jailed for drug offences in the UK.
Scott Delaney (50), who is also known as Scott Knight, was jailed for five years at Mold Crown Court in March after he was arrested in Holyhead while on his way back to Dublin.
Delaney had been wanted on drug charges for more than 10 years after being found to have been producing cannabis at his then-address on Worsley Road North, Manchester in March and October of 2015.
He had previously admitted two counts of producing cannabis, and possession of MDMA and cannabis but was only arrested in March of this year at the Port of Holyhead while returning home to Dublin from Manchester.
In recent years, Delaney has been based in Dublin where he has become one of Ireland's most prominent far right influencers and has amassed thousands of followers on social media.
Delaney (50), who claimed he was once the biggest ecstasy dealer in Dublin, has previously called on 'everyone who belongs to the Irish underworld' to join the far-right National Party in Ireland
He played a leading role in the protest at the former Crown Paints warehouse on the Malahide Road claiming he doesn't want protection applicants being 'dumped around Irish women and children'.
However, despite his concerns about immigrants causing crime in Ireland – a UK court heard in March how Delaney had himself been the target of an international policing operation.
Scott Delaney (son of Cotten Eye Joe Delaney)
It was revealed in court how Knight was stopped in France as he was approaching the Channel Tunnel border on March 15, 2015, and two assault rifles were found.
While he was still in custody in France, the National Crime Agency executed a warrant at his address in Manchester on March 17.
There they found 33 mature and 36 immature cannabis plants, as well as 48 seedlings, and evidence of a previously harvested crop.
Described it as 'reasonably professional grow', with a potential yield of 5.6kg and a street value of up to £56,000, Knight told police he had been allowing a friend to grow cannabis there.
Police also recovered a small amount of MDMA, in powder form, from his kitchen.
Scott Delaney, also known as Scott Knight is an outspoken far-right supporter
Delaney was initially remanded in custody in France before being bailed.
Alerted to his release, officers searched his property again on October 7, 2015 where they found another cannabis grow, of 80 plants, with a potential yield of 2.5kg and a street value up to £25,000.
Though Delaney was charged, he failed to attend court in December 2015 and remained on the run until being arrested.
The North Wales Chronicle reports that Knight, who had five previous convictions for as many offences, was represented in court by Simon Mintz who said his client who has a career as a boxing trainer had been 'out of trouble' for the last 10 years.
Mr Mintz said that in that time he had led a 'normal, productive life' with his family in Dublin, but Judge Rhys Rowlands told Delaney he had produced cannabis 'on a significant scale'.
'You've basically avoided the consequences of your behaviour for a period of some 10 years,' the judge told, him.
Delaney, has been an outspoken supporter of the far-right movement and had previously ranted about how Ireland had been 'destroyed with heroin and crack cocaine — the genocide powder.'
He has also already served time in prison for his part in the murder of Mark Dwyer, who was killed in 1996 over a stash of ecstasy.
Dwyer was tied to a chair and beaten with iron bars for several hours after 40,000 ecstasy tablets had been stolen.
Scott's father, Joe Delaney, had decided Dwyer was behind the theft and ordered that he be kidnapped and brought to him.
Scott was later convicted of murder, but this was quashed on appeal, and he was sentenced to five years on a new charge of accessory to murder.
His father, a notorious criminal figure in Dublin, was jailed for life for Dwyer's murder.
In a 2022 interview on YouTube, Delaney described how he was one of the main ecstasy dealers in 1990s Dublin at the age of 22.
In February last year, we published photos of Delaney, a strident supporter of the far-right movement which links immigrants to crime, taking a 'hit' from a pipe as innocent passers-by walked past him in Dublin's north inner city.
In 2007, Delaney was also exposed as a fully paid-up member of the anti-Irish British National Party (BNP) after their membership details were leaked to the press
Last year, Delaney appealed to Irish people to join the far-right National Party, claiming: 'The National Party is really the best choice we have for saving our country and our people. If everyone was to give support to the National Party, Ireland would be in a far, far better place.
Scott Knight - also known as Scott Delaney
'No homelessness. No country destroyed with heroin and crack cocaine — the genocide powder.'
He has also used social media to claim he had set up a 'firing squad' to 'take out' paedophiles in Ireland.
He posted the bizarre warning on TikTok, which he has previously been banned from, in a video in January where he claims paedophiles fleeing harsh new laws in the US will be 'landing in Ireland'.
The previous September, Delaney called for people to join a protest outside Mountjoy Prison in support of jailed Enoch Burke and to protect children from 'paedophilia.'
This was not the first time that he had publicly supported Burke having previously urged followers to do 'the decent thing' and write a Christmas card to Burke who was spending the festive season in Mountjoy Prison.
He also backed the racist anti-immigrant protest in Belfast in August that descended into violent chaos.
And he posted a video the day after the murders of three young girls in Southport which sparked rioting across the UK blaming it on 'a radical Muslim'.
In March, he urged people to join in the protest at the former Crown Paints warehouse on the Malahide Road saying he doesn't want international protection applicants being 'dumped around Irish women and children'.