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| National Action: Leader of neo-Nazi terrorist group Christopher Lythgoe charged with encouragement to murder | National Action: Leader of neo-Nazi terrorist group Christopher Lythgoe charged with encouragement to murder |
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| The alleged leader of a neo-Nazi terrorist group has been charged with encouragement to commit murder. | |
| Christopher Lythgoe, of Warrington, was one of 11 suspects arrested during a crackdown on National Action in September. | |
| The organisation became the first far-right group to be banned in the UK last year and its aliases Scottish Dawn and NS131 have since been proscribed. | The organisation became the first far-right group to be banned in the UK last year and its aliases Scottish Dawn and NS131 have since been proscribed. |
| Mr Lythgoe, 31, has also been charged with membership of a terrorist organisation, alongside Garron Helm, of Seaforth, Matthew Hankinson, of Newton-Le-Willows, Andrew Clarke, of Paddington and Michal Trubini, of Warrington. | |
| A 22-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with membership of National Action as well as the intention of committing acts of terrorism and threats to kill. | |
| The defendants have been remanded in custody and are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court tomorrow. | |
| National Action was outlawed in December, with the Government citing its “virulently racist, antisemitic and homophobic” ideology. | |
| As revealed by The Independent, it then split into regional factions that aimed to evade authorities by operating under new names. | |
| Two other aliases – Scottish Dawn and NS131 – were banned last month. | |
| National Action promoted the idea that Britain will inevitably see a violent “race war”, calling for MPs to be killed after the murder of Jo Cox and being linked to a pipe bomb plot. | |
| The group was headquartered in a converted warehouse in Warrington, which included a training gym and office. | |
| Security services have been warning over a rising terror threat in the UK emanating from both Isis and other Islamist groups, and the far-right. | |
| Speaking at a security summit on Wednesday, Sue Hemming, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) counter-terror division, said there had been an increase in arrests for terror suspects identifying themselves as from “white” ethnic groups. |