Neo-Nazi guilty of being member of banned far right group National Action
‘Biggest Nazi of the lot’ dubbed ‘the extremist’s extremist’ in court who founded far right group National Action is found guilty of being member of banned organisation
Alex Davies, 27, told a jury he wanted to have an ‘overwhelmingly white Britain’He co-founded Nation Action – banned by the Government for its hate speechBanned group said to have ‘terrorised’ towns across UK with call for ‘race war’Following the ban, Davies set up ‘continuity’ group NS131, the court was told
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A neo-Nazi dubbed the ‘extremist’s extremist’ has been found guilty of belonging to banned far-right group National Action.
Alex Davies had earlier told a jury that ethnic minorities should be kicked out of the UK ‘like sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda’ and that his aim was to have an ‘overwhelmingly white Britain’.
The 27-year-old, described as ‘probably the biggest Nazi of the lot’, was convicted today at Winchester Crown Court.
He was one of the founders of the group which ‘celebrated’ the murder of MP Jo Cox and aimed to complete the work of Adolf Hitler, the court heard.
Meanwhile, the jury was told co-founder Ben Raymond had coined the phrase ‘white jihad’ – meaning ‘white terror’ – for the group in a ‘throwback to Nazi Germany’.
Alex Davies, 27, had earlier told a jury that ethnic minorities should be kicked out of the UK ‘like sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda’ and that his aim was to have an ‘overwhelmingly white Britain’
Alex Davies proudly gives a Nazi salute alongside a convicted member of the National Action group in the execution chamber of Buchenwald concentration camp
Barnaby Jameson QC, prosecuting, told the trial that the UK Government banned the group after it had ‘terrorised’ towns across the country with its call for an ‘all-out race war’.
But he added that the group ‘never disbanded, it morphs into regional factions’.
Davies set up NS131 – which stood for National Socialist Anti-Capitalist Action and which itself was later banned by the Government – as a continuity group.
The defendant, who Mr Jameson described as a ‘terrorist hiding in plain sight’, had told the court that NS131 was not set up as a continuation of NA and had different aims and processes.
‘The defendant was an extremist’s extremist,’ Mr Jameson is reported as saying by the BBC.
‘This was an individual who had his first contact with counter-extremist authorities when he was 15 or 16 – those organising the Prevent project.
‘And when in contact he sets up an organisation (NA) in 2013 concerned with the revolutionary overthrow of the democratic order.’
National Action co-founder Alex Davies was described as a ‘terrorist hiding in plain sight’ and an ‘extremist’s extremist’
Davies was flustered when he was challenged by a mother and daughter during a hate-filled protest in Bath city centre in 2016
He added: ‘For the defendant and his cohorts, the work of Adolf Hitler was, and remains, unfinished.
‘The ‘Final Solution to the Jewish question’, to use Hitler’s words, remains to be answered by complete eradication.’
Davies said that after the ban he was involved in ‘advancing the cause of national socialism, not the cause of a continuity NA’.
And he added: ‘After proscription all I am interested in is pursuing legal political activities.’
Earlier in the trial, asked if the repatriation of ethnic minorities would be enforced under the group’s aims, he said: ‘It would be compulsory, I imagine.
‘I imagine it would be run along the lines of the current Conservative Government and their sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda.’
He said the deportation would not be of all ethnic minorities and Jews, adding: ‘There are certain Jews that do essential jobs, just as there are black, Asian and ethnic minority people who do essential jobs, and to send them back would be doing harm to ourselves.’
National Action was founded in 2013 by Ben Raymond and Alex Davies (pictured)
Alex Davies’ graffiti saying ‘ban us so what?’ and ‘New Year, same struggle’ created on January 2 – 17 days after National Action was proscribed
He went on: ‘If we were to take power, our aim is to have an overwhelmingly white Britain as it more or less has been for centuries.
‘It’s only in the past 50/60/70 years we have had mass immigration, it would be to return to the status quo of before the Second World War.’
Asked if he would repatriate Jewish families with British heritage dating back ‘thousands of years’, he replied: ‘Yes, that’s how repatriation would work.’
Davies denied he is a violent person and said that training camps he attended had not been paramilitary-style training events.
He added that he had been quoting former BNP leader Nick Griffin when he sent a message to a potential recruit in April 2017 which stated: ‘We need to be smart but ready to use well-directed boots and fists, if needs be. No pacifist movement is going to go anywhere.’
Davies said that he set up NA because as a ‘national socialist’ he was ‘politically homeless’ after the BNP had ‘imploded’.
Alex Davies pictured wearing sunglasses at the ‘White Man March’ in Liverpool in August 2015
Alex Davies (left) practices crossbow training in the Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, in December 2016 and (right) boxing with Mark Jones at Toothill Community Centre in Swindon in February 2017 – two months after National Action was banned
He said that he did not believe in ‘fomenting a race war’ because it would ‘create harm to my own people’. Davies said the aim of the group was to ‘bring young people into nationalism’ and to create a ‘nationalist Britain which would be a white Britain’.
He admitted that he posed carrying out a Nazi salute for a photo in the execution chamber at Buchenwald concentration camp in May 2016.
Davies said that he was ‘ashamed’ of his actions and added: ‘It was a disgraceful thing to do where people have died and desecrate their memory, whatever side of the political spectrum they may have fallen on.’
He said that he had not agreed or been involved with Twitter posts put out by NA accounts which ‘celebrated’ the murder of MP Jo Cox in June 2016.
The defendant, from Swansea, said: ‘I felt bad that she died, I feel sorry for her kids, I feel sorry for her husband.’
Davies, from Swansea, denied membership of a proscribed organisation between December 17 2016 and September 27 2017.
‘My daughter’s mixed race – should she be booted out?’ Moment brave mother and her daughter stood up to neo-Nazi protestors advocating a ‘free, white Britain’
By Alexander Robertson for MailOnline
This is the moment a mother and her brave daughter stood up to neo-Nazi protestors from the National Action group, including co-founder Alex Davies.
Sharon Forbes and her daughter Savannah were shocked to see the group of men apparently making bigoted speeches using a megaphone on Saturday, May 4, 2016.
Alex Davies, wearing a baseball cap, told Ms Forbes he was advocating a ‘free, white Britain’, so the outraged mum replied: ‘My daughter’s mixed race – should she be booted out?’
Alex Davies told Sharon he was advocating a ‘free, white Britain’, so the outraged mum replied: ‘My daughter’s mixed race – should she be booted out?’
Davies, in the centre of Bath, looks flummoxed and said: ‘I don’t know, she looks white to me… you’re saying that [she’s mixed race] but you could be saying that for argument’s sake.’
Surrounded by shoppers and tourists, he continues to tell Savannah and Sharon that Britain has ‘always been a white country’ and that they ‘can’t handle the facts’.
Savannah, 15, points out that times have moved on and ‘people have progressed so much since then’, adding that ‘people of different skin tones can now mix and that’s fine’.
The man can think of little else to say and marches off with the rest of the group – to the jeers of the crowd.
Sharon said she was ‘very proud of Savannah for ‘confronting the racists in Bath’.
She said: ‘Savannah is mixed race and is so proud of her heritage. Her grandfather is Jamaican and works as a paediatrician in Africa. He’s an expert on treating malaria.
‘She’s a lovely person and a happy girl, but when we saw those men we had to act.
Surrounded by shoppers and tourists, Davies continues to tell Savannah and Sharon that Britain has ‘always been a white country’ and that they ‘can’t handle the facts’
‘We were so shocked – it’s the first time we’ve ever witnessed direct racism. There were lots of tourists there from all over the world and I couldn’t imagine what they were thinking.
‘People were upset but weren’t doing anything. I think that happens more and more now – society tends to turn a blind eye.’
The men are from a group called National Action, a neo-Nazi British nationalist youth movement.
Sharon said that Savannah, who is studying for her GCSEs, had a strong social concious and cares deeply about LGBT rights, racism and animal rights.
The post has been shared widely on social media and been watched nearly 100,000 times.
People have congratulated the pair for their stance on Facebook while condemning the men.
Colin Forbes said: ‘Well done! What’s a bunch of mutants doing in Bath…must have come in through the sewers!’, while Andrew Bottomley commented: ‘You go girls, well done…sadly, you won’t change the mind of someone who doesn’t possess one but hats off anyway!’
