Hitler stickers found at National Action recruiter's home - court
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Alex Davies, from Swansea, is accused of being a member of National Action after it being banned
Stickers saying "Hitler was right" and showing swastikas were found in the home of a neo-Nazi terror group's co-founder, a court has heard.
Alex Davies, 28, from Uplands, Swansea, denies being a member of National Action after it was banned as a terrorist organisation in 2016.
But Winchester Crown Court heard he was a "recruiter," keeping stickers, banners and flyers at his home.
He sent messages to someone who offered to "help the cause", the jury heard.
Jurors have heard the defendant founded two banned neo-Nazi terrorist groups and exchanged messages with someone from Monmouthshire who supported Nazi "values".
The court was told National Action stickers and flyers, including ones with swastikas on saying "Hitler was right" and "no tolerance", were found at his home when it was searched by police in 2016.
There was also a still image from the "National Action conference" in 2015, and a still image of the group's demonstration in York in May 2016.
The court was told stickers saying "white jihad spirit of 33" were seized from Mr Davies on 27 September 2017, the day of his arrest, after the group was banned.
Jurors were told Mr Davies was contacted by an unknown person from Monmouthshire with the name Accipiter who supported Nazi "values".
The court heard Accipiter was referred to the defendant by another National Action member who lived in Swansea known as BloodNinja88.
The court was told this was Ben Raymond, the co-founder of National Action who lived in Mumbles, Swansea, who was convicted of membership last year.
National Action was founded in 2013 by Ben Raymond and Alex Davies (pictured)
Accipiter told the defendant they only got to know of National Action before it was banned and said they were in college.
In April 2017, after National Action was banned, Accipiter said: "I'm fairly young considering but I want to help the cause".
Later in April they said they would no longer be able to make a "vetting" meeting, but added: "I wish you luck in your endeavours. National socialism is the way forward and we must ensure the existence of our people".
The court previously heard how National Action was the first fascist group to be banned under terror legislation since World War Two and joined the IRA, Al-Qaeda and Islamic State as banned organisations.
Organisations like this had not been seen in the UK since Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, prosecutor Barnaby Jameson QC said.
Jurors heard how members "celebrated" the murder of Jo Cox MP after she was killed in her constituency in June 2016.
Mr Davies denies membership of a proscribed organisation and the trial continues.
- Published20 April 2022
