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Aston University is a public research university situated in the city centre of Birmingham, England. Aston began as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School in 1895, evolving into the UK's first College of Advanced Technology in 1956.

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National action: Four imprisoned neo-Nazi group membership

Feb 16,2020 3:15 am

Alice Schneider and Mark Jones were in prison at Birmingham Crown Court

A "Miss Hitler" beauty contest participants, and your ex-partner were arrested, as members of the banned extreme right-wing terrorist group National action.

Alice Schneider, 23, and Mark Jones , 25, were convicted of membership in a terrorist group in March, in addition to the co-defendants Garry Jack and Connor Scothern.

the National action, founded in the year 2013, was outlawed, and in 2016

the cutter to be celebrated was in prison for three years and Jones for five and a half years.

In Birmingham Crown Court , Jack, 24, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and Scothern, 19, detained for 18 Months .

judge Paul Farrer QC told Jones he "played a significant role in the continuation of the organization" after his ban in December 2016.

The Judge said Cutter it "was never an organizational or leadership role", but said she was a "trusted confidant" of one of The Group leaders, as well as being in a "committed relationship" with Jones.

cutter and Jones, both of Sowerby Bridge , were convicted in the vicinity of Halifax in West Yorkshire , along with Jack and Scothern at a court hearing in March.

The Court heard that Cutter was in the Miss Hitler beauty pageant under the name Miss Buchenwald - a reference to The World war II, the extermination camp.

they denied that a member of the National action, in spite of the participation in The Group rallies, where banners read "Hitler was right" are collected.

the jury were also shown messages, in which Cutter, joked synagogues on gasification, and with a Jew's head as a Football .

Jones and Schneider described and as important members of the National action

Jones, The Group of the London regional organiser, and later to Yorkshire, recognised as posing for a photo delivers a Nazi-style salute, and in possession of a National action flag in Buchenwald executed rooms, during A Trip to Germany in the year 2016.

He also organized the members of physical training.

Cutter was described in the judgment as "an Active Member " of the National action, the prosecution of a barrister Barnaby Jameson.

He Said frustration with a lack of activism in her native Yorkshire led them to strengthen their Midlands sub-group, whose membership was "determined to defy the ban".

Jack, of Heath Avenue in Shard End , Birmingham, appeared via video-link for the condemnation and was described by Mr. Jameson as turning up to "almost any Midlands meet-up".

He had previously been given a suspended prison sentence for plastering-Birmingham, Aston University campus with a racially-aggravating National action label In July 2016, some of which are: "great Britain is with us, the rest have to go. "

Jack wrote a letter to The Judge and said: "I gave my Back To the far right. "

(L-R), Garry Jack , Connor Scothern and Daniel Ward were also convicted or pleaded guilty to National action members

Mr Jameson told The Court Scothern, of Bagnall Avenue in Nottingham, was "one of The Most active members of The Group ," who was "as future leadership material".

Another leading member once observed, as Scothern had "driven itself into poverty," travels in the meet-and self-financing of 1,500, stickers, calling for a "Final Solution ", in allusion to the Nazi genocide of the Jewish People .

Gerard Hillman, defense, Scothern, described him as "vulnerable" and "under The Influence of others."

A fifth man, Daniel Ward , 28, from Bartley Green , Birmingham, pleaded guilty, as a member of the National action Last Year and was imprisoned for three years.

Max Hill QC, the head of the public Prosecutor's office, said The Group were the "diehards in The Way that you think".

"she's reaching Back To The Days , not only of anti-Semitism, but The Holocaust , the Third Reich in Germany, and you take your way of thinking of those extreme Nazi groups and, most recently, in the neo-Nazi groups in Germany," He Said .

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