The co-founder of a neo-Nazi group who is accused of being a member after it was banned has told a court he set up the organisation with the aim of creating a “white Britain”. Alex Davies, 27, is on trial accused of being a member of the proscribed organisation National Action (NA) after it was banned on December 16, 2016.
Barnaby Jameson QC, prosecuting, has told the trial at Winchester Crown Court that the UK Government banned the group after it had “terrorised” towns across the country with its call for an “all-out race war”. Following the ban Davies, who is from Swansea, set up a “continuity” group, NS131, which stood for National Socialist Anti-Capitalist Action and which itself was later banned by the Government, Mr Jameson said.
Davies told the court that he denied continuing being a member of NA after the ban and said he had not attempted to defy it. He said of the ban: “I felt it was an unprovoked move but in some respects, given the provocative nature of the organisation, I understood the thinking behind the proscription. I understood why people in the Home Office would be concerned about what National Action was involved in – not so much what it was doing at the time but the trajectory it was on.”
