“Obviously these pictures are extremely bad for me,” Andrew Dymock says, while insisting codeine affected his judgement. The alleged leader of two banned neo-Nazi groups has claimed he was “pressurised” into posing with swastika flags by his girlfriend. Andrew Dymock, 24, from Bath, told a jury at the Old Bailey that he was not an extremist and had been framed by his former girlfriend. But the jury was shown a series of images taken on the top floor of an abandoned building in Woolwich, South London. Giving evidence in his defence, Dymock claimed that his then girlfriend handed him neo-Nazi skull masks and “was pressurising me to take pictures in them”, adding: “I don’t remember the swastika being there”. He claimed he was affected by taking codeine at the time and added: “I was pressured into this, I am genuinely sorry. It isn’t indicative of any mindset, the complete opposite.” Dymock claimed it was his girlfriend at the time who had founded one of the groups, rather than him, and that it was her who had the Nazi mindset. She had “clearly wanted some kind of photoshoot” after she launched a group called Sonnenkrieg Division because she had been kicked out of another group called System Resistance Network, he said. “She was the one who orchestrated all of this, it was her idea, she wanted me holding it, probably to use against me to wrongly insinuate a Nazi mindset,” he said.
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