Four British neo-Nazis, including an ex-candidate in a competition called "Miss Hitler", were sentenced to terms of up to five and a half years in prison by the courts. They belonged to a far right group banned in the UK.
They were all four convicted in March, by the Birmingham court, of belonging to the "National Action" movement, banned in 2016 under British anti-terrorism legislation. Called "racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic" by the government, this group notably welcomed the murder by a neo-Nazi sympathizer of Labor MP Jo Cox that year, shortly before the Brexit referendum in June 2016.
A Nazi flag in Buchenwald
Judge Paul Farrer sentenced five and a half years in prison to 25-year-old railway engineer Mark Jones for playing "an important role in the continuation of the movement", which he was responsible for in London , after its ban
He acknowledged in particular having saluted the Nazis and raised a "National Action" flag on a photo taken in 2016 in Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp where tens of thousands of people died. His ex-partner Alice Cutter, 23, who had competed as "Miss Buchenwald" for the title of "Miss Hitler", was sentenced to three years in prison for being "the confidant" of one of the group's leaders .
Jurors were able to see messages from this waitress, who also participated in movement rallies, in which she suggested gassing synagogues, using the head of a Jew as a soccer ball, or calling her Jo Cox to "rot in hell" after his death. Two other defendants, Garry Jack (24), described as an active member of "National Action", and Connor Scothern (19), who had distributed 1,500 stickers calling for a "final solution", were sentenced to four years respectively and a half and 18 months in prison.
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