‘Miss Hitler’ Contestant Jailed For 3 Years

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND (VINnews) — A 24-year-old British female who entered the Miss Hitler beauty contest under the name ‘Miss Buchenwald’ in reference to the Nazi death camp was sentenced Tuesday to three years in jail for being part of the banned far-right group, National Action.

Alice Cutter, a waitress, was sentenced in the Birmingham Crown Court along with three other men including her ex-boyfriend, Mark Jones, who was sentenced to five and a half years in jail. Two other men — Gary Jack, 24, and Connor Scothern, 19 — were handed four years and six months, and 18 months respectively, for the same crime.

Jurors were shown messages in which Cutter had joked about gassing synagogues, using a Jewish person’s head as a football, and saying “Rot in hell, bitch” after hearing about the 2016 killing of MP Jo Cox in the run-up to the Brexit referendum.

The group was banned the same year, following the comments, with the government describing it as a “racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organizaton that stirs up hatred and glorifies violence.”‘

Judge Paul Farrer QC told the four in court, “you weren’t prepared to dissociate yourselves from the vile ideology of this group and therefore defied the ban and continued as members,” according to Metro newspaper.

He told Cutter that she had “never held an organizational or leadership role,” but that she was a “trusted confidante” of one of the group’s leaders.

However, Cutter denied being a member of the group despite having attended the group’s rallies, where participants carried signs that read “Hitler was right.”

Police found evidence that all of the defendants had continued to participate in National Action meetings in Birmingham, despite the group having been declared a terrorist organization.

Speaking ahead of the sentencing, director of public prosecutions Max Hill described the members as “diehards” who “hark back to the days of not just anti-Semitism, but the Holocaust, the Third Reich in Germany.”

Prosecutors said a search of the home that Cutter and Jones shared revealed Nazi paraphernalia and images, as well as weapons including knives, brass knuckles, catapults, a longbow and ball bearings.