‘Neo-Nazi’ teen accused of ‘making a pipe bomb’ and ‘plotting a terror attack’ hailed Jo Cox’s killer as a ‘f****** legend’
The 17-year-old went online the day after last June’s murder to praise Hitler-loving Thomas Mair
AN alleged neo-Nazi accused of making a pipe bomb and plotting a terror attack hailed the killer of Labour MP Jo Cox as a “f****** legend”, a court heard yesterday.
The 17-year-old, of Bradford, went online the day after last June’s murder to praise Hitler-loving Thomas Mair.
He added: “We need more people like him to butcher the race traitors."
The accused, who cannot be named, denies a charge of preparing a terrorist act and an alternative count of making a pipe bomb.
Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson said: "The text of the post is significant as not only was [the teen] celebrating the death of Jo Cox - he was rallying others to, in his words, '…butcher the race traitors'.
"His political views were so extreme that he celebrated in the murder of a democratically elected MP - presumably because she had voted to remain in the EU.
"In [the defendant's] view this was race treachery."
The teen allegedly attended rallies and participated in neo-Nazi group National Action sticker campaigns to spread their message, the prosecutor said. He also allegedly praised Hitler.
Labour MP Jo was gunned down and stabbed as she arrived at a constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorks.
Mair was convicted of her murder by an Old Bailey jury and is now serving a whole life sentence.
The Leeds crown court trial continues.