A former Miss Hitler beauty pageant contestant who called herself ‘The Buchenwald Princess’ has been jailed for three years for being a member of the banned far-right terror group National Action.
Alice Cutter, 23, was convicted of membership of a terrorist group alongside her ex-fiance Mark Jones and neo-Nazi ‘diehards’ Garry Jack and Connor Scothern following a trial in March.
Jones was sentenced to five-and-a-half years at Birmingham Crown Court today for playing ‘a significant role in the continuation of the organisation’, after its ban in December 2016, Judge Paul Farrer QC said.
Cutter, who had denied being a part of the group, was told although she had never ‘held an organisational or leadership role’, she was a ‘trusted confidante’ of one the group’s leaders, as well as being in a ‘committed relationship’ with Jones.
Alice Cutter (pictured) was sentenced alongside her ex-fiance Mark Jones for being members of the far-right terrorist group National Action at Birmingham Crown Court today
Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones (above) were convicted at Birmingham Crown Court in March
Cutter (left) met Jones (right) after posing for an online Miss Hitler competition run by the proscribed far-Right group – under the name The Buchenwald Princess
Extreme right-wing group National Action (NA), labelled ‘racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic’ by the then-home secretary Amber Rudd, was banned in December 2016 after a series of rallies and incidents, including praise of the murder of MP Jo Cox.
Cutter who entered the Miss Hitler beauty contest as ‘Miss Buchenwald’ – a reference to the Second World War death camp – had denied ever being a member, despite attending the group’s rallies, in which banners reading ‘Hitler was right’ were raised.
In one exchange with another National Action member on the day after MP Jo Cox was murdered, referencing the politician, she said: ‘Rot in hell, b***h.’
The vegan neo-Nazi supporter met Jones after posing for an online Miss Hitler competition run by the proscribed far-Right group – under the name The Buchenwald Princess.
Cutter had exchanged hundreds of messages – many racist and anti-Semitic – and attended various meetings with other members after the proscription
Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones have been convicted at Birmingham Crown Court
Vegan neo-Nazi supporter Cutter (left) met Jones (right) after posing for an online Miss Hitler competition run by the proscribed far-Right group National Action
Jones told jurors of his ‘feelings of admiration’ for Hitler, while the court heard he had a special wedding edition of Mein Kampf (above, Jones’ Nazi-themed illustrations)
She admitted in court to holding racist views, and signed up to join the violent terror group after professing her faith in National Socialism.
Jurors were also shown messages in which the waitress joked about gassing synagogues, using a Jew’s head as a football, and exclaiming ‘Rot in hell, bitch’, after hearing of Ms Cox’s murder.
Jones, a former member of the British National Party’s youth wing and a rail engineer, was described at trial as a ‘leader and strategist’ who played a ‘prominent and active role’.
The 25-year-old, originally the group’s London regional organiser, acknowledged posing for a photograph while delivering a Nazi-style salute and holding an NA flag in Buchenwald’s execution room during a trip to Germany in 2016.
Prosecutors described Cutter and Jones, both of Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, West Yorkshire, as well as Jack and Scothern as ‘active’ group members, even after the ban.
Pictured, a selection of Nazi-themed blades. Cutter and Jones were convicted at Birmingham Crown Court for being members of proscribed organisation National Action
Jones in Buchenwald concentration camp posing as a Nazi for photographs, 2016
Cutter and Jones, both of Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, Yorkshire, described themselves in court as avowed National Socialists, but denied any wrongdoing
Garry Jack (left), 24, joined National Action six months before the ban. He had denied taking a photograph found on his phone of graffiti reading ‘gas the Jews’. Connor Scothern (right), 19, was a one-time practising Muslim before eventually joining National Action
Jack, 24, of Heathland Avenue, Shard End, Birmingham, had attended almost every meeting of NA’s Midlands sub-group.
He also had a previous conviction, from before the group was banned for plastering Birmingham’s Aston University campus with NA’s racially charged stickers, some reading ‘Britain is ours, the rest must go.’
Scothern, 19, of Bagnall Avenue, Nottingham, was ‘considered future leadership material’ and had distributed almost 1,500 stickers calling for a ‘final solution’ – in reference to the Nazis’ genocide against Jews.
Cutter was jailed for three years, while Jones received a five-and-a-half-year prison term.
Jack was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison, and Scothern was handed a sentence of detention for 18 months.
Speaking ahead of sentencing, the director of public prosecutions Max Hill QC described NA members as ‘diehards’ who ‘hark back to the days of not just anti-Semitism, but the Holocaust, the Third Reich in Germany’.