A Bradford man who helped expose the Far-Right British National Party's violent and racist agenda is making a donation to a Holocaust memorial after a harrowing visit to a Nazi death camp.

Andy Sykes shot to national attention after featuring on the BBC documentary Secret Agent which exposed the activities of the BNP in Bradford.

He joined the BNP in 2001 but was shocked by its racist and hate-filled agenda. He contacted the TUC after the Bradford riots and spent three years working undercover.

After appearing on the programme he was subjected to a series of death threats. He was awarded £100 compensation against Jeremy Oakley who was convicted of sending messages threatening Mr Sykes' life.

Now Mr Sykes, a 36-year-old father, from Eccleshill, has decided to donate the compensation to the Bradford TUC's Holocaust Memorial after seeing the horrors left at Auschwitz.

He was there at the invitation of the Sefton Project run by Unison in Liverpool, which educates teenagers about the Holocaust. During the trip the party saw the sites of the mass graves and met a Holocaust survivor.

Mr Sykes said: "There were some of the worst things I have ever seen in my life. It beggars belief that the Nazis could do such awful things.

"The youngsters were devastated by it and it really changes your outlook on life. I will never moan about being tired, cold or hungry ever again."

Now Mr Sykes is hoping to pay a return visit to the death camp with teenagers from the Bradford area with the help of the TUC.

He said: "When I saw a number of members of the BNP 'seig heiling' it turned my stomach. To think of the dads, grandads and brothers who fought in the war to protect our land from Nazis to then see them emerging behind a political party.

"That is disturbing and we must not let it happen."

The Bradford TUC Holocaust memorial is held every April at Bradford cenotaph to remember the millions who died in Nazi death camps.