Former Miss Hitler beauty pageant entrant and ex-partner from Calderdale jailed for being part of far right group

Two people from Calderdale, including a woman who entered a Miss Hitler beauty pageant, have been jailed for being members of a far right group.
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Alice Cutter and her ex partner Mark Jones, both from Sowerby Bridge have been jailed for being members of the banned extreme right wing neo-Nazi group National Action.

Cutter, 22 and her ex-partner Jones, 24, have been jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for three years and five-and-a-half years respectively.

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The other members who were jailed are Garry Jack, aged 24 from Heathland Avenue, Shard End, Birmingham who was jailed for four and a half years and Connor Scothern, aged 19 from Bagnall Avenue, Arnold, Nottingham, received an 18 month jail term.

Alice Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones from Sowerby Bridge have been jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for three years and five-and-a-half years respectivelyAlice Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones from Sowerby Bridge have been jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for three years and five-and-a-half years respectively
Alice Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones from Sowerby Bridge have been jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for three years and five-and-a-half years respectively

They were told they will have to serve at least two thirds of their sentence before they can apply for parole.

National Action was formed in 2013 and in December 2016 became the first organisation to be banned by the government since World War II.

Alice Cutter, aged 22, and her partner 24-year-old Mark Jones, both from Wharf Street, , were arrested on September 5 2017 and charged with being members of National Action contrary to section 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

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During a nine week trial the jury heard how the pair became members of National Action pre-proscription and regularly met with other members to share their extreme ideology and attend demonstrations.

However when the group was banned, the defendants continued to communicate covertly using encrypted messaging platforms.

They held secret meetings to discuss their ambitions for a race war whilst recruiting other young people to the group, sharing intensely shocking images mocking the holocaust and glorifying Hitler.

Central to the group, Cutter and Jones, amassed an arsenal of weapons and were obsessed with ‘violent ethnic cleansing’.

They had met after Cutter entered a Miss Hitler beauty contest as ‘Buchenwald Princess’, named after the German prison camp where thousands of Jews were killed during WWII.