A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with membership of the banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation National Action
Benjamin Hannam, 21, of north London, has been charged with - between December 2016 and January 2018 -belonging or professing to belong to a proscribed terrorist organisation.
He has also been charged possessing indecent images of children
He has also been charged possessing indecent images of children
Hannam has further been charged with two counts of fraud for allegedly making false claims in his applications to join the police, namely that he had not been a member of an organisation "similar to the BNP"
The abuse image charges are as follows:
On 22 July 2018 he was in possession of an indecent photograph of a child
On 27 November 2016 he was in possession of a prohibited image of a child
On 22 July 2018 he was in possession of an indecent photograph of a child
On 27 November 2016 he was in possession of a prohibited image of a child
He has been bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 6 August
