Miss Hitler beauty pageant contestant who called herself ‘The Buchenwald Princess’ and her Nazi former partner are found GUILTY of being members of banned far right terror group National Action
- Alice Cutter and Mark Jones have been convicted of being members of proscribed far-Right terror group National Action
- Vegan neo-Nazi Cutter exchanged hundreds of messages with other NA members – many of them racist and anti-Semitic – and attended gatherings
- Prosecutors accused 23-year-old Cutter of joking about gassing synagogues and using a Jewish person’s head as a football
- She was a ‘central spoke’ for NA, and entered the pageant to drive recruitment
- Jones’ association with violent politics began when he joined the BNP youth wing as a teenager with convicted terrorist Jack Renshaw
Miss Hitler beauty pageant entrant Alice Cutter and her ex-fiance Mark Jones have been convicted of being members of far-Right banned terror group National Action.
Vegan neo-Nazi supporter Cutter, 23, denied being a part of the group, which was labelled a ‘racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation’ by then Home Secretary Amber Rudd when it was banned in December 2016.
But evidence proved she had exchanged hundreds of messages – many racist – and attended various meetings with other members after the proscription.
Prosecutors accused Cutter, who joked about gassing synagogues and using a Jew’s head as a football, of being a ‘central spoke’ among the organisation’s hard-core, and had entered the beauty pageant to drive recruitment.
She claimed never to have considered herself a member, despite attending meetings with group leaders and posing for a Nazi-style salute on the steps of Leeds Town Hall in 2016. Cutter also attended a demo in York in May 2016.
Alice Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones have been convicted at Birmingham Crown Court
Alice Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones have been convicted at Birmingham Crown Court
Cutter initially denied attending the gatherings until footage emerged which showed her standing with other masked National Action members.
All gave the Nazi salute behind banner that read ‘Hitler Was Right’.
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.’
Jones, 25, an ex-member of the British National Party’s youth wing and London regional organiser for National Action, was also convicted of membership.
During his evidence, he told jurors of his ‘feelings of admiration’ for Hitler, while the court heard he had a special wedding edition of Mein Kampf.
Both were convicted after a retrial at Birmingham Crown Court today.
Having split up during the course of the trial proceedings, they embraced in the dock before being taken down to the cells.
Alice Cutter and her ex-partner Mark Jones have been convicted at Birmingham Crown Court
Vegan neo-Nazi supporter Cutter met Jones after posing for an online Miss Hitler competition run by the proscribed far-Right group National Action.
She admitted in court to holding racist views, and signed up to join the violent terror group after professing her faith in National Socialism.
Cutter posed for the competition in a face mask, under the name Miss Buchenwald – in dedication to the Nazi execution chamber.
Jones, a key figure in National Action, visited Buchenwald concentration camp, where he gave the Nazi salute in posed photographs.
The pair moved in together in the Pennine town of Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, with Cutter becoming a key figure in the group alongside her boyfriend.
Jones – nicknamed Mr Angry – began his association with violent politics as a teenager, joining the youth wing of the BNP with Jack Renshaw.
Renshaw was convicted of preparing to kill MP Rosie Cooper in 2019.
More to follow.