Miss Hitler beauty pageant entry Alice Cutter among four neo-Nazi 'diehards' jailed for being members of National Action terror group

Alice Cutter is accused of entering a "Miss Hitler" competition in June 2016
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Ewan Somerville9 June 2020
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A former Miss Hitler beauty pageant contestant is among four “diehard” neo-Nazis jailed for being members of banned terror group National Action.

Alice Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones were jailed for a total of eight years after being convicted of membership of a proscribed terrorist group.

Sentencing at Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday, Judge Paul Farrer QC told Jones he had played “a significant role in the continuation of the organisation”, after its ban in December 2016.

Turning to Cutter, he said: “You never held an organisational or leadership role”, but added she was a “trusted confidante” of one the group’s leaders, as well as being in a “committed relationship” with Jones.

Former Miss Hitler entrant Alice Cutter was among the four jailed
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A trial heard that Cutter, 23, who entered the Miss Hitler beauty contest as Miss Buchenwald – a reference to the Second World War death camp – had denied ever being a National Action member.

This was despite her attending the group’s rallies, in which banners reading “Hitler was right” were raised.

Jurors were also shown messages in which the waitress joked about gassing synagogues, using a Jew’s head as a football, and exclaiming “Rot in hell, bitch” after hearing of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.

Neo-Nazi group National Action (NA), labelled “racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic” by the then-home secretary Amber Rudd, was banned in December 2016 after a series of rallies and incidents, including praising the murder of MP Jo Cox by saying “only 649 MPs to go”.

Cutter's ex-partner Mark Jones was also jailed for being a member of banned National Action
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Jones, a former member of the British National Party’s youth wing and a rail engineer, was described at trial as a “leader and strategist” who played a “prominent and active role”.

The 25-year-old, originally the group’s London regional organiser, acknowledged posing for a photograph while delivering a Nazi-style salute and holding an NA flag in Buchenwald’s execution room during a trip to Germany in 2016.

Garry Jack, 24, of Heathland Avenue, Shard End, Birmingham, and Connor Scothern, 19, of Bagnall Avenue, Nottingham, were also jailed.

Connor Scothern, 19, was among the four 'diehard' neo-Nazis jailed
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Prosecutors described the four accused of being “active” group members, even after the ban.

Speaking ahead of sentencing, the director of public prosecutions Max Hill QC described NA members as “diehards” who “hark back to the days of not just anti-Semitism, but the Holocaust, the Third Reich in Germany”.

Jack also had a previous conviction, from before the group was banned for plastering Birmingham’s Aston University campus with NA’s racially charged stickers, some reading “Britain is ours, the rest must go.”

Garry Jack, 23, was also jailed
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Scothern was “considered future leadership material” and had distributed almost 1,500 stickers calling for a “final solution” – in reference to the Nazis’ genocide against Jews.

Cutter was jailed for three years, while Jones received a five-and-a-half-year prison term.

Jack was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison, and Scothern was handed a sentence of detention for 18 months.

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