Ever wondered why Brits hate the far right?

Montegriffo · Jun 12, 2018

A man has pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to preparing acts of terrorism by plotting to murder the Labour MP Rosie Cooper with a knife last summer.

On the day his trial was due to start, Jack Renshaw, 23, of Skelmersdale, Lancashire, an alleged member of the banned far-right group National Action, also admitted making a threat to kill another woman, named as Victoria Henderson.

On Tuesday, the judge, Mr Justice Jay, directed the jury to deliver a formal guilty verdict on the first two charges Renshaw faces.

He is on trial alongside Christopher Lythgoe, 32, from Warrington, who denies giving Renshaw permission to murder the West Lancashire MP on behalf of National Action on 1 July last year.

The pair – along with Garron Helm, 24, of Seaforth, Merseyside; Matthew Hankinson, 24, of Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside; Andrew Clarke, 33, and Michal Trubini, 35, both of Warrington – also deny membership of the banned far-right group.

Opening the trial, prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said: “This case concerns these defendants and their support for, involvement in and membership of the proscribed racist neo-Nazi group National Action.”

He said Renshaw planned to carry out a politically and racially motivated murder in support of National Action. This was planned with the blessing of his leader, Lythgoe, jurors heard.

He told jurors the group had engaged in a “campaign of virulent antisemitic and homophobic propaganda” since 2013. It tried to recruit and radicalise young people through violent images and hate-filled language, he said.

Its support for the murder of MP Jo Cox in June 2016 led to it being banned, Atkinson said. But he said the defendants remained active members of the organisation after it was proscribed.
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