Nathan Thompson, of Newcastle, admitted inciting racial hatred offences on Twitter, A social media user who celebrated Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, white supremacist mass murderers and promoted extremist right wing material has been spared prison. In July last year, counter terrorism police became aware of two Twitter accounts being operated by Nathan Thompson which were being used to disseminate far right material. As a result, his home was searched and a phone of his seized. One of the Twitter accounts had 584 followers and the other account had 51 followers. Angus MacDonald, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Court: “Both accounts showed he holds or held a right wing or racist mindset.” He said retweets and some tweets over a four month sample period between April and July last year contained anti-immigration, white supremacist, racist, anti-Jewish, anti-Islam, anti-LGBTQ plus and pro Nazi and Hitler material, including support for two mass killers. As well as the material from Twitter, the court heard police recovered “other material relevant to his mindset” and of a “right wing ideology”. He had carried out searches on his phone for white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, who killed people at mosques in New Zealand in 2019 and neo-Nazi Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011. A notepad found in his bedroom also had various notes and drawings, including reference to Jewish people and “KK”, which Mr MacDonald said was “presumably a reference to the white supremacist group’. When he was arrested, Thompson, 25, of Whickham View, Newcastle, denied being involved with any right wing organisation and said his posts were a legitimate expression of free speech. The court heard the posts were watched and shared hundreds of times.
via chroniclelive: Newcastle far-right Twitter user ‘celebrated’ Nazis and white supremacist mass murderers