15 May 2023 , 16:31
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A Hitler fan who hosted a "highly antisemitic and white supremacist" podcast has been jailed for more than two years.
James Allchurch, a self-described racist from Pembrokeshire in Wales, was found guilty in March of stirring up racial hatred.
The 51-year-old is said to have recorded the "vile" show to "spread his propaganda about racial conflict".
Guests of the platform included extremists such as National Action co-founder Alex Davies, who was jailed for eight-and-a-half-years last year.
On Monday, Allchurch was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court to two-and-a half years in prison by Judge Huw Rees.
The judge also ordered forfeiture and deprivation orders in relation to recordings and materials, including Allchurch's laptop.
Allchurch and his guests repeatedly used extreme racial slurs and propagated racist ideology, the court heard (PA) Judge Rees said it was "immediately apparent" from the recordings that Allchurch's "sole intention was to stir up racial hatred", or at least racial hatred was likely to be stirred up as a result.
"The content of these podcasts were vile. Listening to them, as the jury had to, was a disturbing experience.", he said
"It beggars belief, or at least it should be, that someone would want to speak these words at all, let alone feel the need to publish them for the consumption of others.
"That would be the case for right-thinking people at any time, leave alone currently in an enlightened age of diversity and inclusivity.
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"Your offending amounts, in my view, to a stain on our humanity for our fellow human beings.
"Your ideology based on race, being pro-white and anti non-white, has been expressed by you as having some form of basis for protection of our society - it is no such thing.
At trial, Allchurch claimed he had not intended to cause offence and believed he was using "accurate terminology" to describe different races.
Allchurch was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court to two-and-a half years in prison by Judge Huw Rees (MEDIA WALES)He also claimed the podcast was only intended for those who already subscribed to nationalist ideology.
Allchurch was convicted of 10 out of 15 counts of distributing audio material to stir up racial hatred between May 17 2019 and March 18 2021.
Each charge related to a separate episode uploaded by Allchurch to a public website called Radio Aryan, which has since been renamed Radio Albion.
The jury had to listen to each of the recordings, which in total came to around nine hours of audio.
Episode titles included Rivers Of Blood, Banned From The UK, The Foreign Aid Scam, Where The Jews Fit In and The Strawman Nationalist.
In the clips, Allchurch and his guests repeatedly used extreme racial slurs and propagated racist ideology while discussing topics such as grooming gangs, immigration, slavery and crime.
In one episode, he suggested creating "safe spaces" outside cities for "indigenous Britons" and questioned whether gas chambers were really used by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Each episode was accompanied by often racist and insulting cartoons.