Andrew Dymock tells a court that flags he personally paid for the manufacture of - and which contained a logo used by the neo-Nazi terror group Sonnenkrieg Division - were really for a pagan airsoft team linked to "proto-European polytheism"
Dymock, charged with multiple terror offences and hate crimes, says that it's a coincidence that someone else had an identical flag - during a photo shoot involving salutes that he took part in - the day after he took delivery of his flags
Prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward asks if he'd mentioned about having the same flags made in China and taking delivery of them only the day before.
Dymock says no.
He says he was "pressured" into posing for the images by a schoolboy and a teenage girl (he was nearly 21 at the time)
Dymock says the girl pulled out the flag from a bag.
He says that Sonnenkrieg Division stole the logo and have ruined it.
The prosecution say he was an SKD member
Dymock says "unknown men" planted books and shirts in his luggage after his arrest by police at Gatwick.
He's saying the mystery men - maybe in collusion with the police - placed Iron Gates, Bluebird, One Verse Charlies, and the Theocrat in his bags before filming them
He says police are trying to insinuate he was going to the USA for "some weird Nazi purposes".
"Who are these unknown men?" he asks the court
Dymock accepts packing the book Siege and two Azov shirts, but not Atomwaffen and NSLF tops.
The defendant says he was going to read Siege on holiday
Dymock accepts owning the four books he claims were planted, but denies packing them.
The prosecution say the four books were not in his room at home when it was searched on the same day
Jocelyn Ledward, prosecuting, says the defendant was going to the USA to "try and meet James Mason".
She said Dymock had prepared a speech, written our questions he wanted to ask Mason, and told someone else he'd bought books for Mason to sign
Dymock accepts that cell site data relating to his mobile shows his location, but not on an occasion when the prosecution say he went to Southampton to plaster it with homophobic propaganda.
Cell site data shows him travelling from Bath to Southampton.
He says it's wrong
Dymock says he actually travelled to Guildford for a party.
The prosecution say the evidence also shows him buying a rail ticket to Southampton and back again.
He says it's wrong
The defendant asked: "How many cell sites are there between Southampton and Guildford?"
Dymock says records from the Train Line booking system have been "changed"
He also says that police systems are "open" and that data held there can be accessed
He says the various companies whose records he claims were altered or manipulated are "innocent".
He adds: "It's their data that's been changed by these malicious actors"
He says such actors have "significant capabilities".
He suggests that a fingerprint on a homophobic poster plastered in Southampton - which the prosecution say is his fingerprint - has been added to it while in police storage.
"I did not touch that poster"
The prosecution says that metadata shows that self-authored documents encouraging the murder of Jewish people were his.
"It's just metadata", he says - denying they were
He says a linguistic analysis would show he didn't write the documents.
"That's how they got Ted Kaczynski. They analysed the linguistics"
Dymock denies being the person who filmed and directed a video of three people burning flags (including a rainbow one) for use in a neo-Nazi propaganda film.
The prosecution say his voice is heard telling the other people what to do.
The raw video was found on his device
Dymock says it's not his voice at all.
The prosecutor says the person looks like Dymock, sounds like him, was in places he was located, and used items belonging to him.
"This is an absolute conspiracy theory", Dymock says
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Andrew Dymock, on trial for multiple neo-Nazi terror offences, breaks down in the witness box as he says a teenage girl set him up.
"The police should have turned up and tried to protect me", he says.
Many offences were allegedly committed before he actually met the girl
"You guys should have saved me from her", he tells the prosecution.
He told the court yesterday: “I was extremely vulnerable and taken advantage of” and that the girl was “extremely seductive”.
Today he said she was a "femme fatale"
Asked why he thinks he was targeted, Dymock says "because I'm a politics student at university".
Asked why he thinks a neo-Nazi would think he was susceptible, given he claims never to have shared the ideology, he says because the girl said she was into Warhammer
Andrew Dymock goes on trial at the Old Bailey charged with multiple terrorism offences linked to allegations of organised neo-Nazi activity in the UK
He faces 15 charges
5 x encouraging terrorism
4 x disseminating terrorist publications
2 x terrorist fundraising
1 x possessing terrorist info
1 x possessing racially inflammatory material
1 x stirring up racial hatred
1 x stirring up hate on the grounds of sexual orientation
The defendant promoted a British neo-Nazi terror group that sought to stir up a “race war” against non-white people, the court heard.
The case concerns his alleged online activities for the System Resistance Network.
One post said: "Keep Britain white! Join your local Nazis"
Ben Styles, 23, from Leamington Spa, has appeared in court charged with planning an extreme right-wing terror attack.
It's alleged he began making a firearm, had live ammo, and drafted a manifesto
It's alleged that between 2019 and February 2021 he purchased items and acquired instructions to construct a lethal firearm and live ammunition, the partial construction of a lethal firearm, the manufacture of live ammunition and the composition of a draft “manifesto”
He is also charged with three counts of possessing a document useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism - these comprise firearms manuals
Further charges include possessing a prohibited weapon, possession of ammunition and possession of a Class A drug
Ben Hannam, recently sacked from the Met Police, is being sentenced this morning at the Old Bailey for neo-Nazi terror offences, fraud, and possessing prohibited images of children.
We are hearing details of the images offence for the first time today (upsetting info below)
When the home of the then police constable was searched by Met detectives last year, his computer was found to contain a folder of “anime cartoons” of children and young people.
At the time, Hannam was working as an officer among north London communities
Prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds told the court: “Although most of the files in this folder did not show any sexual acts, there was a series of twelve drawings of the same hand-drawn girl, who appeared to be eight or nine years old, engaged in acts of intercourse”
BREAKING: Two police officers have been charged with misconduct in public office in connection with photographs taken and circulated relating to the scene where sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were murdered last summer
PC Deniz Jaffer, 47, and PC Jamie Lewis, 32 - of the Met Police - will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 27 May 2021 for their first hearing.
Both officers have each been charged with one count of misconduct in public office
The misconduct relates to the investigation into the deaths of 46-year-old Bibaa Henry and 27-year-old Nicole Smallman in Fryent Country Park in Wembley in June 2020