A Birmingham man has been jailed after admitting being a member of the banned extreme right wing neo-Nazi group Nation Action.
Daniel Ward, aged 28 from Highmore Drive, Bartley Green, pleaded guilty to membership of the group contrary to section 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in January this year. He was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court to three years in prison and will spend a further 10 years on licence.
Ward was arrested in September 2018 and a warrant executed at his home address revealed weapons, including air rifles and ammunition, along with extreme right-wing propaganda.
National Action was formed in 2013 and in December 2016 became the first organisation to be banned by the government since World War II.
Four other defendants – Alice Cutter, aged 22, and her partner 24-year-old Mark Jones, both from Halifax, Garry Jack, aged 23 from Shard End in Birmingham and Connor Scothern, aged 18 from Nottingham − stood trial accused of the same offence in April, but the jury were unable to reach a verdict. A re-trial has been set for January next year.
