Four neo-Nazi 'diehards' are facing jail after being convicted of active membership in the banned terrorist group National Action (NA). Alice Cutter, 23, her former partner Mark Jones, 25, along with Garry Jack and Connor Scothern, appeared at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday for sentencing.
The extreme right-wing group was banned in December 2016 following a series of rallies and incidents, including praise for the murder of MP Jo Cox. Cutter, a former Miss Hitler beauty pageant contestant who entered as 'Miss Buchenwald', was described by prosecutors as an 'active member' who joined the NA's Midlands sub-group out of frustration with a lack of activism in Yorkshire.
Jurors were shown messages in which Cutter joked about gassing synagogues and using a Jew's head as a football. On the day after Cox's murder, she said of the MP: 'Rot in hell, bitch.' She also attempted to recruit a 15-year-old girl, the court heard.
Jones, a former member of the British National Party's youth wing, was described as a 'leader and strategist' who played a 'prominent and active role'. He posed for a photograph giving a Nazi salute while holding an NA flag in the execution room of Buchenwald concentration camp. Even after the ban, he designed propaganda for two splinter groups, NS131 and Scottish Dawn, both later banned.
Jack was described as an active and committed member who attended almost every Midlands meet-up. Scothern was considered 'future leadership material' and had self-funded 1,500 stickers calling for a 'Final Solution', a reference to the Nazis' genocide of Jews. When police searched his address, only 148 stickers were found.
The four were convicted in March of membership of a terrorist group and are due to be sentenced later this week.
