University student sought to stir up race war, court told
A UNIVERSITY student promoted a neo-nazi group that called for a race war and described homosexuality as a disease, a court has heard.
Andrew Dymock, 23, is accused of joining the extremist groups Sonnenkrieg Division and System Resistance Network (SRN) between 2017 and 2018.
The Old Bailey heard that Mr Dymock used a website and a Twitter account to promote the groups that “preached zero-tolerance” to non-whites, Jewish and Muslim communities.
The defendant, from Bath in Somerset, is on trial on 15 charges, including 12 terrorism-related alleged offences.
Jocelyn Ledward, prosecuting, said the case centred on a period in 2017 and 2018 when Mr Dymock was studying politics at Aberystwyth University in Wales.
He used online platforms to promote and raise money for SRN, which wanted to stir up a race war and described homosexuality as a “disease”, jurors were told.
Ms Ledward said: “Its clarion call was for the expulsion of all minorities and a white revolution.
“Its online campaign, comprising virulently racist, anti-semitic and homophobic propaganda, sought to stir up a race war against ethnic minorities and others that it perceived as ‘race traitors’.”
SRN was one of a small number of organisations which filled a “dubious gap” after the far-right group, National Action, was banned. SRN was itself outlawed in 2020.
Jurors also heard how Mr Dymock was expelled from SRN in late February 2018. An examination of his computer allegedly revealed extremist views dating back to when he was aged 17. In addition, he had books, flags, clothes and badges with links to the extreme Right in his bedroom, jurors were told.
He denies five charges of encouraging terrorism, two of funding terrorism, stirring up racial hatred and hatred based on sexual orientation, four counts of disseminating terrorist publications, possessing a terrorist document and possessing racially inflammatory material.
The trial continues.