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Nazi enthusiast disbarred after years of Twitter racism

October 30, 2016 12:58
One of a number of Nazi images tweeted out by Millard

ByDaniel Sugarman, Daniel Sugarman

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One of the UK’s most notorious tweeters of far-right material has been disbarred as a barrister, after an independent disciplinary tribunal found he had made “seriously offensive” comments.

Ian Millard, who tweets via an account under his own name, had identified himself on social media as a barrister. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 1991, last holding a practising certificate in 2007.

Examples of racist tweets from the @ianrmillard account include a link in 2013 to a Daily Mail article discussing the dismissal of a libel appeal by Nat Rothschild against the paper, along with the caption: “Reading this account of a Rothschilds jew, the jew Mandelson and others, one can surely only say "Hitler was right".

Millard has posted Nazi propaganda images on a regular basis, along with glowing messages such as “There will never be a speaker such as Adolf Hitler, not in our lifetimes, not ever” in 2015, and a picture of Hitler along with the words “Meine Ehre heisst Treue” – “My honour is loyalty”, which was the motto of the SS.