Here is PC Benjamin Hannam s progress from schoolboy, to neo-Nazi, to Metropolitan Police officer:
2011-2017: The neo-Nazi online forum Iron March is active.
August 2013: National Action (NA) emerges from Iron March with stickers and flash demonstrations. Its neo-Nazi ideology includes a belief in Aryan purity and hatred of non-white groups, particularly Jews; it venerates Hitler as divine and celebrates war and genocide.
2014: Hannam says he first became interested in fascism around the age of 16. He also began a three-and-a-half year secret relationship with his Muslim girlfriend.
May 24, 2014: In a Skype conversation, Hannam says: I m not racist, I just don t like people who s skin is darker than mine .
Benjamin Hannam: Early warning signs of far-right copper jailed for part in Nazi group
Ex-Met Police officer Benjamin Hannam was sentenced to four years and four months in jail for belonging to a banned neo-Nazi terror group National Action on Friday, April 30
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Images of Benjamin Hannam appeared online of him in uniform with a Hitler moustache (Image: PA)
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Neo-Nazi Met policeman who called Hitler the big man jailed for four years
Pc Ben Hannam, who is autistic, earlier told jurors that he was under the impression he was part of a youth network . The former Met Police officer developed an interest in the far-right while he was still at school
12:35, 30 APR 2021
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Rookie Pc Ben Hannam had been working as a probationary officer with the force (Image: PA)
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Sitting in a quiet corner of a Wetherspoons pub near Paddington Station, the small group attracted little attention from other customers.
But for a fresh-faced 17-year-old boy who sat sipping a Coca-Cola beside a bricklayer and a bouncer, listening to the tales of a handsome, charismatic stranger, it was ‘an awakening’.
Benjamin Hannam, now 22, would later describe his excitement at the fateful first meeting with the neo-Nazi group, National Action, on March 6, 2016, writing in his diary they are ‘a good bunch of lads’ and he ‘can’t wait to get more involved’.
Within two days of watching propaganda videos by the banned terror group, Hannam was ‘completely swayed’, eagerly describing his ideology to other members as ‘fascist’.
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