Two Britons who hosted a neo-Nazi podcast were sentenced this Thursday, January 4, 2024 to seven and eight years in prison for incitement to commit acts of terrorism, London police announced. The investigation established that the two defendants, Tyrone Patten-Walsh, 36, and Christopher Gibbons, 40, had produced 21 episodes of a podcast in which they made “homophobic, racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic” remarks. and misogynistic,” according to Scotland Yard.
The two culprits sentenced to 7 and 8 years in prison
They sometimes incited their listeners to “commit acts of terrorist violence”, added the London police in a press release. Christopher Gibbons had also created an online library containing hundreds of texts and other far-right content.
He was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday at a court in Kingston, southwest London, on eight counts of inciting acts of terrorism and two of disseminating terrorist publications.
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During the trial in June, it was highlighted that Christopher Gibbons had described Archie, the son of Prince Harry and his mixed-race wife Meghan Markle, as an “abomination” and that the Duke of Sussex should be “prosecrated” and “legally killed for treason.” Tyrone Patten-Walsh was sentenced to seven years in prison for eight counts of inciting acts of terrorism.
The content shared by the two defendants is “exactly the kind that has the potential to attract vulnerable people – particularly young people – to terrorism,” Dominic Murphy, who heads Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command, said in a statement. .
“I hope this case and today’s convictions send a clear message that there are serious consequences for those who share material glorifying terrorism or encouraging others to engage in terrorism “, he added.