Swansea man jailed for membership of banned fascist organisation
27 year-old Alex Davies was sentenced to more than 8 years
Last updated 7th Jun 2022
A founder of banned fascist group National Action has been jailed for more than eight years.
Last month Alex Davies, a philosophy student from Swansea, was found guilty of being a member of the organisation after it was proscribed on December 16 2016.
The 27-year-old, from Swansea, South Wales, had set up a "continuity group" with the aim of getting around the ban, which was brought in after NA posted "congratulatory" tweets following the murder of MP Jo Cox.
On Tuesday, Davies was jailed at the Old Bailey for eight-and-a-half years by Judge Mark Dennis QC.
The judge also ordered him to spend a further year on extended licence.
Judge Dennis said:
"I'm satisfied the defendant played an active and prominent role in concert with his trusted associates in trying to disguise the continued existence of the organisation in defiance of the ban."
Addressing the defendant in the dock, he added:
"You are an intelligent and educated young man but you have held, over a period of many years, warped and shocking prejudices."
During the trial at Winchester Crown Court, prosecutor Barnaby Jameson QC described how NA had "terrorised" towns across the country with its call for an "all-out race war".
He described Davies as “probably the biggest Nazi of the lot."