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
12:41, 30 APR 2021
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Images of Benjamin Hannam appeared online of him in uniform with a Hitler moustache (Image: PA)
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