A young woman who allegedly won a Miss Hitler beauty contest went to two National Action meetings after the neo-Nazi group was banned following MP Jo Cox’s murder, a court heard today.
Alice Cutter, 22, was present at a meeting in Birmingham on January 8, 2017, and another in Manchester on August 5, 2017, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
Liam Walker, defending Cutter, pointed out there were 11 other group meetings which she did not attend.
Alice Cutter, 22, (seen posing with a gun in an online photo) was present at a meeting in Birmingham on January 8, 2017, and another in Manchester on August 5, 2017, Birmingham Crown Court heard
Liam Walker, defending Cutter, (pictured in front of a Nazi flag) pointed out there were 11 other group meetings which she did not attend
Cutter is accused of being a member of the terror group, which was banned in December 2016, alongside her partner Mark Jones, 24, Connor Scothern, 18, and Gary Jack, 23. All deny the charges.
Mr Walker read out messages sent by Cutter to Jones after she arrived at Manchester Victoria station for one of the meetings.
She asks why Jones was not there to meet her and tells him she is having a ‘f***ing anxiety attack’.
Cutter is said to have written: ‘I am going to be sick I’m so scared. Why aren’t you picking up? I’m having a f*****g anxiety attack by myself in Manchester. What is wrong with you?’
She is then said to have repeatedly texted the name ‘Mark?’.
The defendants are alleged to have been posting in an online chat group entitled Triple K Mafia, which the prosecution claim was National Action under a new name.
Mr Walker said Cutter had left the Triple K Mafia chat group several times in 2017, but was added back in by administrators.
Cutter is pictured here holding a gun. She is on trial at Birmingham Crown Court accused of being a member of the banned far-right group National Action with three other defendants
On April 5, 2017, Cutter posted: ‘I want to leave all the time because I feel like I’m in some weird chatroom against my will.
‘I BASICALLY AM. YOU BULLY ME BACK IN EVERY TIME I TRY TO RUN OFF.’
The jury were also shown a clip of Scothern’s police interview from September last year.
He is seen breaking down in tears after he is asked by an officer about posts he allegedly made on not advocating equality.
Discussing Cutter in his police interview, Scothern said: ‘She was another person I was friends with quite a bit. She was never involved in activism.
‘The view in the group was that women shouldn’t get involved. She had her beliefs but she never really posted about them.’
Earlier today, Jack claimed the views held by National Action were shared by Donald Trump in a bid to suggest they were not unique to the terror group.
Jack used the US President’s description of African countries as ‘s***holes’ and Mexicans as ‘rapists’ to further his argument.
He also asked police if accusations of antisemitism against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn made them terrorists.
Jack, centre, told police the right-wing views of National Action ‘were the same as Donald Trump’s and Jeremy Corbyn’s’. He is pictured in Dudley doing the Nazi salute with (from left) Daniel Ward, Connor Scothern, Alex Deakin and Adam Thomas doing a Nazi salute in Dudley. Scothern is on trial alongside Jack
Birmingham Crown Court he made the comparisons with Mr Trump and Mr Corbyn in a police interview after being arrested in September 2018.
Naomi Parsons, prosecuting, read out the statements made by Jack, in which he told police: ‘A lot of the ideas expressed in the chats were not unique to National Action.
‘For example, the National Front, British National Party and even Donald Trump share the views National Action had, such as on race, immigration, barriers and separatism.
‘Donald Trump has referred to third world countries as s***holes and has called all Mexicans rapists.
‘Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party has been accused of antisemitism. Does that make him a member of National Action?
Garry Jack, 23, pictured performing a Nazi salute in 2016, is on trial accused of being part of banned group National Action
‘Fascism and national socialism are ideas which have been around for hundreds of years and are not exclusive to National Action. Conversations after the ban may be distasteful but I don’t think they’re illegal.’
Jack claimed he continued to communicate with other alleged members of the group after it was banned because he ‘didn’t have many friends.’
He told officers: ‘The purpose was to keep in touch with friends. In my view National Action was dead.
‘Any contact with people post-proscription were not for any illegal purpose such as continuation of National Action. National Action died in December 2016.
‘I don’t think meeting up with people post-proscription qualifies as membership of National Action.
‘National Action did not invent any of its policies.
‘I don’t go out, I don’t have many friends. I have autism and severe anxiety. These guys are my only friends.
‘I had no idea these guys were continuing National Action.
‘I have a mixed race niece who I dearly love and the last thing I would want is a race war.’
When he was asked about his mixed-race niece and non-white step brother, he answered: ‘I don’t resent anybody from my family and my love for my family is unconditional.’
The jury were also shown crude images stored by the other members accused of being part of National Action.
Scothern’s Motorola mobile phone was seized by police after his arrest in September last year.
Jack said he sent messages to Cutter, left, and Scothern, right, because he wanted to stay in touch with them as friends and claimed he thought ‘National Action was dead’
It was found to have an offensive image of a black toddler in some kind of glass tank, with text referring to her as a ‘pet’ and comparing the child to an iguana.
Jurors heard police also found a number of distressing memes on Jones’ Samsung mobile in September 2017.
One shows a Nazi death squad, labelled ‘the boys’, executing Jews, who are labelled as ‘cold ones’.
Another shows an emaciated person, who may be a concentration camp inmate, with the text: ‘Jew – why u no eat food?’
The jury were also shown a bow measuring more than 1.5 yards in length, which was found at Scothern’s address.
The court previously heard Scothern claimed in police interview that the bow belonged to convicted National Action member Nathan Pryke.
Cutter and Jones, of Halifax, West Yorkshire, deny the charges alongside Scothern, of Nottingham, and Jack, of Birmingham.
The trial continues.