The leader of the far-Right British National Party attacked Tony Blair and his "toadies in the BBC" today after being acquitted on two charges of stirring up racial hatred.

Addressing supporters outside Leeds Crown Court, Nick Griffin also demanded the resignation of Colin Cramphorn, the Chief Constable of the West Yorkshire police, for wasting police time and money pursuing the case while the 7/7 bombers were preparing their atrocities on his patch.

The not-guilty verdict in the retrial of Mr Griffin, 46, and the BNP publicity manager Mark Collett, 26, sent their supporters into a frenzy of cheering outside the court, where BNP members started chanting "freedom, freedom" as they waited for Mr Griffin to emerge.

After leaving the court, Mr Griffin took up a megaphone to attack the Government, the Crown Prosecution Service and the BBC, whose undercover report on a meeting in a Yorkshire pub two years had prompted the charges.

Mr Griffin, of Llanerfyl, Powys, Wales, was found not guilty on a charge of using words or behaviour intended to stir up racial hatred and an alternative charge of using words or behaviour likely to stir up racial hatred. Mr Collett was found not guilty on four similar charges.

"Something's just happened to show Tony Blair and the government toadies in the BBC that they can take our taxes, but they cannot take our hearts, they cannot take our tongues and they cannot take our freedom," Mr Griffin declared.

Mr Collett, a former Leeds University student and head of the BNP youth wing, said that the score after the retrial was "BNP 2 - BBC nil".

He added: "I was hauled over the coals for describing Asian criminals as Asians and their white victims as white. That is not a crime - that is the truth.

"The BBC have abused their position. They are a politically correct, politically biased organisation which has wasted taxpayers’ money to bring two people in a legal democratic peaceful political party to court over speaking nothing more than the truth.

"And even if we had gone to jail, I wouldn’t have minded going to the jail over truth."

During the retrial, the jury of five men and seven women heard extracts from a speech Mr Griffin made in the Reservoir Tavern, Keighley, on January 19, 2004, in which he described Islam as "this wicked, vicious faith" and said that Muslims were turning Britain into a "multi-racial hell hole" and described .

The court heard that Mr Collett addressed the gathering on the same evening, saying: "Let’s show these ethnics the door in 2004."

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