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SPANISH police arrested 18 people in a raid on a gang suspected of planning to send 400,000 Viagra-style pills to the UK. A WOMAN accused of being a member of a banned far-right group won a beauty contest called Miss Hitler, a court heard yesterday.

Alice Cutter, 22, allegedly styled herself as “Buchenwald Princess” in reference to the German concentration camp which “stood out for its depravity”.

Jurors heard she entered the contest organised by National Action in 2016 to try to recruit more members to the extremist group, which was banned later the same year.

Her fiance Mark Jones, 24, is alleged to have performed a Nazi salute a month earlier in an execution room at the camp where thousands of Jews died.

The couple deny being members of the group alongside Garry Jack, 23, and Connor Scothern, 18.

The court heard they started a relationship after Cutter appeared in the contest one week after MP

Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist.

Cutter called for women to “step up and be lionesses” and “rip apart the hyenas laughing at us”, the court heard.

Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson QC opened the case, saying: “Terror comes

in many different forms. None, perhaps, more chilling than the particular brand of terror the four accused were seeking to spread. The terror of the gun, knife, noose, explosive, of the gas chamber. “The terror of an ideology so warped its continued existence will be shocking to many, if not all... it is, above all, the terror of hate.”

Birmingham crown court heard an image allegedly of Jones at Buchenwald appeared on the National Action website captioned, “Oy vey. Such horrors”. Oy vey is a Jewish term for grief.

Jones and Cutter, of Halifax, West Yorks, Jack, of Birmingham, and Scothern, of Nottingham, deny being members of the group in 2017. The trial continues. BARNABY JAMESON QC PROSECUTOR AT TRIAL

The terror of an ideology so warped, it is, above all, terror of hate