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Miss Hitler & neo-Nazi fanatics locked up

Racists wore swastika knitwear

- BY ADAM ASPINALL adam.aspinall@mirror.co.uk @MirrorAsp

A MISS HITLER beauty pageant contestant and her Nazi-obsessed ex have been jailed for belonging to a banned terrorist group.

Alice Cutter, 23, and former partner Mark Jones, 25, were found guilty of being members of the far right neo-Nazi organisati­on National Action.

A court heard how Cutter exchanged racist messages with Jones, who was nicknamed “Grand Daddy Terror”.

Cutter entered the Miss Hitler competitio­n in June 2016 under the name Miss Buchenwald – a reference to the infamous Second World War camp. She joked about gassing synagogues and using a Jew’s head as a football.

The couple also sported “his and hers swastika knitwear” while Cutter was pictured holding a semi automatic rifle and blades with Nazi symbols. Jones was pictured making a Nazi salute in a Buchenwald execution chamber.

They intended to wage a “holy war” against black people, Jews, Asians and homosexual­s and were sentenced with Garry Jack, 24, and Connor Scothern, 19, at Birmingham crown court yesterday after being found guilty in March.

Sentencing, Judge Paul Farrer said: “National Action was formed in 2013 and was the most extreme neo-Nazi organisati­on to appear in the UK for many decades. Its aims included the creation of a white state in the UK which would be ethnically cleansed.”

Cutter and Jones, of Halifax, West Yorks, had denied being part of a proscribed organisati­on alongside Jack, of Shard End, Birmingham, and Scothern, of Nottingham.

Waitress Cutter was jailed for three years while qualified railway engineer Jones was caged for fiveand-a-half years.

Scothern was sentenced to 18 months’ detention and Jack was handed a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence.

After the hearing, West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit Head, Det Chief Supt Kenny Bell, said: “Terrorists and extremists use this kind of ideology to create discord, distrust and fear among communitie­s. We strive to counter this.”

It is the most extreme neo-Nazi group to appear here for decades

JUDGE PAUL FARRER WHILE SENTENCING

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Garry Jack 3 YEARS Alice Cutter
Connor Scothern Garry Jack 3 YEARS Alice Cutter
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