Miss Hitler beauty pageant contestant and her ex-partner guilty of being members of National Action

Miss Hitler beauty pageant entrant Alice Cutter and her ex-fiance Mark Jones have been convicted of being members of far-Right banned terror group National Action.  

Vegan neo-Nazi supporter Cutter, 23, denied being a part of the group, which was labelled a ‘racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation’ by then Home Secretary Amber Rudd when it was banned in December 2016. 

But evidence proved she had exchanged hundreds of messages – many racist – and attended various meetings with other members after the proscription.  

Prosecutors accused Cutter, who joked about gassing synagogues and using a Jew’s head as a football, of being a ‘central spoke’ among the organisation’s hard-core, and had entered the beauty pageant to drive recruitment.

She claimed never to have considered herself a member, despite attending meetings with group leaders and posing for a Nazi-style salute on the steps of Leeds Town Hall in 2016. Cutter also attended a demo in York in May 2016.

Alice Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones have been convicted at Birmingham Crown Court 

Alice Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones have been convicted at Birmingham Crown Court

Cutter initially denied attending the gatherings until footage emerged which showed her standing with other masked National Action members.

All gave the Nazi salute behind banner that read ‘Hitler Was Right’.  

In one exchange with another National Action member on the day after MP Jo Cox was murdered, referencing the politician, she said: ‘Rot in hell, b***h.’ 

Cutter met Jones after posing for an online Miss Hitler competition run by the proscribed far-Right group – under the name The Buchenwald Princess.

She admitted in court to holding racist views, and signed up to join the violent terror group after professing her faith in National Socialism.  

Jones, 25, an ex-member of the British National Party’s youth wing and London regional organiser for National Action, was also convicted of membership.

He posted messages on Telegram as ‘GrandaddyTerror’, and was National Action’s London regional organiser and a key designer of the group’s propaganda artwork. 

During his evidence, he told jurors of his ‘feelings of admiration’ for Hitler, while the court heard he had a special wedding edition of Mein Kampf. 

Jones, who told jurors he carried out his death-camp salute as a ‘controversial statement’, also took a selfie inside the room holding the concentration camp’s ovens, where the remains of thousands of murdered Jews were incinerated.

He and Cutter, both of Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, Yorkshire, described themselves in court as avowed National Socialists, but denied any wrongdoing.

The jury at Birmingham Crown Court found both unanimously guilty following a retrial, lasting 10 weeks, after less than nine hours of deliberations. 

Cutter and Jones moved in together in the Pennine town of Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, with Cutter becoming a key figure in the group.  

Having split up during the course of the trial proceedings, the pair embraced in the dock before they were taken down to the cells.  

Cutter had exchanged hundreds of messages - many racist and anti-Semitic - and attended various meetings with other members after the proscription

Cutter had exchanged hundreds of messages – many racist and anti-Semitic – and attended various meetings with other members after the proscription

Alice Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones have been convicted at Birmingham Crown Court

Alice Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones have been convicted at Birmingham Crown Court

Alice Cutter, December 2019

NA member Mark Jones

Vegan neo-Nazi supporter Cutter (left) met Jones (right) after posing for an online Miss Hitler competition run by the proscribed far-Right group National Action

Jones told jurors of his 'feelings of admiration' for Hitler, while the court heard he had a special wedding edition of Mein Kampf (Nazi-themed illustrations above)

Jones told jurors of his ‘feelings of admiration’ for Hitler, while the court heard he had a special wedding edition of Mein Kampf (Nazi-themed illustrations above)

Pictured, a selection of Nazi-themed blades. Cutter and Jones were convicted at Birmingham Crown Court for being members of proscribed organisation National Action

Pictured, a selection of Nazi-themed blades. Cutter and Jones were convicted at Birmingham Crown Court for being members of proscribed organisation National Action 

Jones was pictured in Buchenwald concentration camp posing as a Nazi for photographs

Jones was pictured in Buchenwald concentration camp posing as a Nazi for photographs

Cutter admitted in court to holding racist views, and signed up to join the violent terror group after professing her faith in National Socialism

Cutter admitted in court to holding racist views, and signed up to join the violent terror group after professing her faith in National Socialism

Jones’ long association with violent politics began when he joined the BNP youth wing 

Cutter and Jones, both of Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, Yorkshire, described themselves in court as avowed National Socialists, but denied any wrongdoing

Cutter and Jones, both of Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, Yorkshire, described themselves in court as avowed National Socialists, but denied any wrongdoing

Jones – nicknamed Mr Angry – began his association with violent politics as a teenager, joining the youth wing of the BNP with Jack Renshaw. 

Renshaw was convicted of preparing to kill MP Rosie Cooper in 2019. 

Two other men were convicted for membership of National Action.

Garry Jack, 24, joined National Action six months before the ban. He had denied taking a photograph found on his phone of graffiti reading ‘gas the Jews’. 

However, Jack repeatedly used anti-Semitic slurs in message chats.  

The self-confessed Nazi, who said he was against ‘cultural Marxism’, told jurors he considered himself a non-violent ‘liberal’ in the pre-ban group.

Jack told jurors he was not a racist, claiming that his remark ‘Handsworth – first area in Birmingham that needs ethnic cleansing’ had been ‘tongue in cheek’.

In a message to his then girlfriend, littered with racist language, he talked of threatening to have ‘kerb-stomped’ a black person.

On another occasions, he called an Asian male a ‘f***ing rat’.

Jack had been given a one-year suspended jail sentence for plastering Birmingham’s Aston University campus with racially-aggravating National Action stickers in July 2016, some of which read ‘Britain is ours, the rest must go’.

He planted the stickers with Alexander Deakin and Daniel Bogunovic, also since convicted of being group members, and Chad Williams-Allen.

Connor Scothern, 19, was a one-time practising Muslim, and an Antifa – anti-fascist activist – before eventually joining National Action.

He did not give evidence at trial. But in messages he sent following the ban in August 2017, he talked of setting up ‘a clear and openly fascist youth movement’. 

Addressing the four convicts, Judge Paul Farrer said: ‘You have all been convicted of a serious terrorist offence. You cannot be sentenced today.’ 

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