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 .
UK Police Officer Jailed for Membership of Neo-Nazi Group
A British police officer was convicted on Friday of belonging to a neo-Nazi group and was jailed for more than four years.
Ben Hannam, 22, was found guilty of being a member of the National Action (NA), a banned right-wing extremist group, from 2016 to 2017.
Hannam, who pleaded guilty to possessing an indecent image of a child, was also convicted of lying on his application and vetting forms to join the Metropolitan Police and having two terror documents detailing knife combat and making explosive devices.
“Hannam joined and engaged with a right-wing terrorism organisation, whose views are the antithesis of police values. He then lied about his past links to this group when applying to become a police officer,” said Commander Richard Smith, head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command, which led the investigation into the case.
THE first British police officer to be convicted of belonging to a banned neonazi terrorist group has been jailed for more than four years.
Ben Hannam, 22, was found guilty of membership of National Action (NA) from 2016 until September 2017, following a trial at the Old Bailey.
He had been working as a probationary officer for the Metropolitan Police for nearly two years before he was found on a leaked database of users of far-right forum Iron March and arrested last year.
Mr Hannam, who pleaded guilty to possessing a prohibited image of a child, was also convicted of lying on his job application and vetting forms and having two terror documents detailing knife combat and making explosive devices.
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