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'Hitler fan' podcast host who had 'pro white ideology' jailed for 2 yeaars
James Allchurch, a self-avowed racist and Hitler supporter, was found guilty in March of stirring up racial hatred
May 15, 2023 16:50
James Allchurch, a self-avowed racist and Hitler supporter, was found guilty in March of stirring up racial hatred
May 15, 2023 16:50The host of a "highly antisemitic and white supremacist" podcast has been jailed for more than two years.
James Allchurch, a self-avowed racist and Hitler supporter, was found guilty in March of stirring up racial hatred.
The 51-year-old from Pembrokeshire, Wales, is said to have recorded the "vile" show known as Radio Aryan to "spread his propaganda about racial conflict".
Guests of the controversial podcast included extremists such as jailed National Action co-founder Alex Davies.
Allchurch was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court to two and a half years in prison on Monday.
Judge Rees also ordered forfeiture and deprivation orders in relation to recordings and materials including Allchurch's laptop.
Judge Rees said: "During the playing of these podcasts, it was immediately apparent that the recordings were plainly insulting or abusive, and that your sole intention was to stir up racial hatred, or at least racial hatred was likely to be stirred up as a result.
"The content of these podcasts were vile. Listening to them, as the jury had to, was a disturbing experience.
"Your offending amounts, in my view, to a stain on our humanity for our fellow human beings.
"Your ideology based on race, being pro-white and anti non-white, has been expressed by you as having some form of basis for protection of our society - it is no such thing.”
During his trial, Allchurch claimed he had not intended to cause offence and believed he was using "accurate terminology" to describe different races.
In addition, he claimed the podcast was only intended for those who already subscribed to nationalist ideology.
Allchurch was convicted of 10 out of 15 counts of distributing audio material to stir up racial hatred between May 17 2019 and March 18 2021.
Each charge related to a separate episode uploaded by Allchurch to a public website called Radio Aryan, which has since been renamed Radio Albion.
The jury listened to each of the recordings, totalling around nine hours of audio.
Episode titles included Rivers Of Blood, Banned From The UK, The Foreign Aid Scam, Where The Jews Fit In and The Strawman Nationalist.
In the clips, Allchurch and his guests repeatedly used extreme racial slurs and propagated racist ideology while discussing topics such as grooming gangs, immigration, slavery and crime.
Detective Chief Superintendent James Dunkerley, of Counter-Terror Police North East, said the podcasts had threatened "the safety of the public and the stability of our communities".
"We will not accept any action which attempts to undermine or divide our communities and will continue to work to counteract the intentions of individuals who seek to do this."