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Neonazi National Action leader jailed for eight years
A sketch by court artist Elizabeth Cook of defendants at the National Action trial, left to right: Garron Helm, Michal Trubini, Andrew Clarke, Matthew Hankinson, Christopher Lythgoe and Jack Renshaw
THE LEADER of banned neonazi group National Action was jailed for eight years at the Old Bailey today after an investigation into a foiled plot to murder a Labour MP.
Christopher Lythgoe, 32, was said to have taken the organisation underground after it was outlawed in December 2016 — making it the first far-right group to be banned since the second world war — following its support for the murder of MP Jo Cox.
It was said that Mr Lythgoe, from Warrington, had encouraged a plan to kill West Lancashire MP Rosie Cooper with a machete by telling Jack Renshaw not to “fuck it up” when they met at the Friar Penketh pub in Warrington.
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