The founder of a famous neo-Nazi group who infiltrated the police and army has been sentenced to Old Bailey to eight and a half years in prison.
Former philosophy student Alex Davies was convicted of terrorism on May 17.
He was described by the prosecution as the “extremist extremist” who had a unique place in history as an individual who founded two different far-right groups banned by terrorist law.
He is the latest of 25 members of the neo-Nazi group National Action to be jailed after being convicted of keeping the organization running after a ban on inciting the killing of MPs.
Prosecutors described him as an “innocuous-looking, educated and intelligent” student at the University of Warwick when he founded the group, which was intended to recruit students and youth for the neo-Nazi cause.
In addition to an eight-and-a-half-year sentence, Judge Mark Dennis QC also ordered Davies to spend another year on an extended license.
In handing down the sentence, the judge said the accused “played an active and prominent role in concert with his trusted partners in trying to disguise the continuity of the organization by defying the ban.”
Addressing the accused in the dock, he added: “You are an intelligent and cultured young man but you have maintained, for many years, distorted and shocking prejudices.”
Davies founded National Action in 2013 while in college.
Group aimed at women deputies
The group was said to have paramilitary aspirations with an emphasis on boxing, martial arts and knife fighting.
Members collected knives, daggers, machetes, high-speed crossbows, rifles, bomb-action shotguns, pushbuttons, CS spray, baseball bats and a long bow.
National Action was described as a “white jihadist” group and a “retreat in the 1930s, dedicated to total racial warfare,” Barnaby Jameson QC, a prosecutor, said during the trial.
“He defended the same Nazi goals and ideals: the ethnic cleansing of anyone who did not fit the Nazi mold of the Aryans: Jews, Muslims, people of color, people of Asian descent, people of gay orientation, and anyone remotely liberal. “Jameson said. dit.
The court was told the group was targeting women MPs who considered themselves pro-immigration and openly celebrated the death of Jo Cox in June 2016.
Image: Alex Davies was the founder of the neo-Nazi group National Action
Members included Jack Renshaw, who was jailed for conspiring to kill Deputy Rosie Cooper with a sword, Mikko Vehvilainen, a soldier on duty who stored weapons, and Ben Hannam, who joined the Metropolitan Police.
Jack Coulson built a bomb and posted an image on social media on the Bradford skyline, threatening to eradicate Muslims from the city.
Among other recruits was Alice Cutter, who took part in a “Miss Hitler” beauty pageant, posing as the Princess of Buchenwald.