The leader of a banned British neo-Nazi group is sentenced to eight years in prison over a plot to murder Labour lawmaker Rosie Cooper and a female police officer.
Christopher Lythgoe, 32, leads National Action, which was banned in 2016 after supporting the stabbing and shooting murder of another Labour MP, Jo Cox.
He is convicted of membership in the group and stirring up racial hatred but found not guilty of encouraging Cooper’s murder at London’s central criminal court.
The plot to murder Cooper was uncovered after a whistleblower leaked the details of a meeting at a pub in Warrington in northwest England to campaign group Hope Not Hate in July 2017.
Judge Robert Jay says National Action had a “truly evil and dystopian vision” of waging a race war, and without Lythgoe’s determination, the group would have “withered and died on the vine.”
— AFP
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