A convicted Neo-Nazi terrorist and “Miss Hitler” beauty pageant contestant who ‘joked’ about gassing synagogues is to be freed early from prison. 

Alice Cutter, 26, was sentenced to three years in jail in 2020 for being a member of the neo-Nazi terrorist organisation National Action, which was banned in 2016. 

The group labelled as “racist, antisemitic and homophobic” by then-home secretary Amber Rudd after a series of rallies and incidents, including praise for the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. 

After an oral hearing on Monday that confirmed Cutter’s early release, a Parole Board spokesperson told the JC: “Decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community. 

"Parole reviews are undertaken thoroughly and with extreme care. Protecting the public is our number one priority."

Although she denied being a member of National Action at her trial, jurors were shown messages in which Cutter joked about gassing synagogues, using a Jew’s head as a football, and remarking “Rot in hell, bitch” following the murder of Ms Cox. 

Cutter, a former waitress, attended meetings with group leaders and posed for a Nazi-style salute on the steps of Leeds Town Hall, as well as attempting to recruit a 15-year-old girl.

National Action, Alice Cutter

Alice Cutter, third left, performing a Nazi salute on steps of Leeds Town Hall (Credit: West Midlands Police)

Footage also emerged of Cutter at a demo for the group in York in 2016, which she initially denied attending, showing her standing with other masked members giving the Nazi salute behind a banner that read “Hitler was right”. 

Cutter was tried alongside her boyfriend Mark Jones, who was jailed for five and a half years, and who was described at trial as a “leader and strategist” within the group and played a “prominent and active role.” 

Founded in 2013 and based in Warrington, National Action is proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 and is the first far-right group in the UK to be banned since the Second World War. 

Director of public prosecutions Max Hill KC described the group’s members as “diehards” who “hark back to the days of not just antisemitism, but the Holocaust, the Third Reich in Germany.”