Soldier was ‘ready to die for his race’

Thomas poses with crossbow Ku Klux Klan Christmas card Biscuit cutter A pair of swastika cushions A DECORATED British Army soldier acted as a recruiter for National Action and wrote a diary about being “prepared to fight and die for your race in a possible last stand for our survival”.

Corporal Mikko Vehvilainen, 34, believed there was a “race war” coming to the UK. He was obsessed with the collapse of society and in a private messaging app he said: “Every part of me wants war. There is no other way.”

Vehvilainen, who is half-Finnish, wanted to establish an all-white community in a Welsh village and recruit fellow soldiers to his cause.

And he tried to get civilians into the Army to help his cause, saying: “If we get enough of us into the Army, we’ll be in the right place when things start to collapse.”

The former Royal Anglian Regiment soldier and married father of three was jailed for eight years in March for being a National Action member. But his conviction was shrouded in secrecy until the end of yesterday’s trial in Birmingham.

His actions working inside the Army as a “recruiter” for the neo-Nazis can now be reported.

When Vehvilainen was caught, police found far-right mass killer Anders Breivik’s manifesto and stockpiled weaponry.

The Afghanistan veteran also kept swastika bunting and an SS ceremonial dagger at his home in Powys, mid-Wales.

Vehvilainen was connected to three other soldiers, one of whom was thrown out of the Army and two others who were disciplined.

He followed a white supremacist religion, called Christian Identity.

His trial heard him described as an “outstanding soldier” – but he was photographed making a Nazi salute next to a war memorial.

The racist yob sobbed in the dock when he was jailed in March. ARMOURY Guns and knives at his home Vehvilainen by grave, and inset IDOL Anders Breivik