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Britain detains two for neo-Nazi membership
[PRESSTV] Two Britons were tossed in the slammerBook 'im, Mahmoud! on Wednesday after being convicted of belonging to a banned white supremacist group following a trial in which another defendant had earlier pleaded guilty to plotting to kill an elected MP. Christopher Lythgoe, 32, and Matthew Hankinson, 24, were found guilty at London’s Old Bailey Court of being members of National Action, a neo-Nazi organization that claimed a race war was imminent. The organization was banned in 2016 after it praised the murder of Jo Cox, a female Labour MP, in a frenzied street attack by a Nazi-obsessed loner, the first far-right group to be outlawed in Britannia since World War Two. At the start of the trial, defendant Jack Renshaw, 23, admitted buying a machete for the purpose of killing another Labour MP, Rosie Cooper, as well as making a threat to kill a female police officer. Prosecutors said the aim of National Action, which was formed in 2013, was to start a race war. The group had said it wanted to free white Britannia from Jewish control and the spread of ethnic minorities. Lythgoe was its self-appointed leader and the court heard he continued to keep it active after its ban, using a makeshift gym where members could train for race war. He was tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! for eight years while Hankinson was given a six-year prison term. Posted by: Fred 2018-07-19 |
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