‘Miss Hitler’ was member of extreme Right group
Footage showed her standing with other masked NA members, giving the Nazi salute
A FORMER “Miss Hitler” beauty pageant contestant and her Nazi-admiring ex-partner have been convicted of membership of banned Right-wing extremist group National Action (NA).
Alice Cutter, 23, claimed she had been pestered by others into entering the competition under the name Miss Buchenwald – a reference to the Second World War death camp – during a retrial at Birmingham Crown Court.
She flatly 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 jurors rejected her denials after hearing evidence, including how Cutter exchanged hundreds of messages, many racist and anti-semitic, and was still meeting other members months after the ban.
Prosecutors said Cutter, who joked about gassing synagogues and using a Jew’s head as a football, had been a “central spoke” among the organisation’s hard-core, and entered the pageant to drive recruitment.
She claimed never to have considered herself a member, even before the ban, despite attending meetings with group leaders and posing for a Nazistyle salute on the steps of Leeds Town Hall in 2016. Cutter also attended a demonstration in York the same year.
She initially denied attending until footage emerged showing her standing with other masked NA members, giving the Nazi salute behind a banner that read “Hitler Was Right”.
In one exchange with another National Action member the day after MP Jo Cox was murdered, referencing the politician, she said: “Rot in hell, bitch.”
Her ex-partner 25-year-old Mark Jones, a former member of the British National Party’s youth wing, was also convicted of being a member, after being described by prosecutors as a “leader and strategist”.
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 and Cutter, both of Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, denied any wrongdoing. However, the jury found them unanimously guilty. Two other men – Garry Jack, 24, and Connor Scothern, 19 – were also convicted of the same offence. Sentencing was deferred.