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Four jailed for neo-Nazi group membership

A ‘Miss Hitler’ beauty pageant entrant and her ex-partner are among four to have been jailed for being members of the banned far-right terrorist group National Action.

National Action, founded in 2013, was outlawed in 2016 after it celebrated the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.

23-year-old Alice Cutter and her partner Mark Jones (25-years-old) were convicted of membership of the terrorist group in March, alongside co-accused Garry Jack and Connor Scothern. Cutter was jailed for three years and Jones for five and a half years.

Birmingham Crown Court has also seen Jack, 24-years-old, sentenced to four and a half years in prison and Scothern, 19-years-old, detained for 18 months.

Detective Chief Superintendent Kenny Bell, head of West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, said: “We have seen a significant increase of right-wing referrals to our Prevent programme and we will investigate the threat as robustly as we would any other terrorist group, as well as training our officers on the signs to look out for and working with communities to increase awareness. Terrorists and extremists use this kind of ideology to create discord, distrust and fear among our communities and we strive to counter this. I would encourage people to report hate crime to us and it will be taken seriously."

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