#UK
40 entries tagged UK.
People (18)
- Andrew Dymock Andrew Dymock is a British neo-Nazi who founded the System Resistance Network and Sonnenkrieg Division after National Action's proscription, convicted on 15 terrorism and hate crime counts at the Old Bailey in 2021 and sentenced to 7 years.
- Ashley Podsiad-Sharp Ashley Podsiad-Sharp was a 42-year-old HMP Armley prison officer and former National Action member convicted in 2023 at Sheffield Crown Court of possessing the White Resistance Manual, sentenced to eight years plus five years extended licence.
- Ben John Ben John was a 21-year-old Lincoln criminology student convicted in August 2021 of one terrorism possession offence and given a suspended sentence later overturned on Solicitor General reference, with O9A literature among material found in his possession.
- Benjamin Hannam Benjamin Hannam was a probationary Metropolitan Police constable convicted on 1 April 2021 at the Old Bailey of National Action membership, fraud by false representation on his police vetting forms, and possession of terrorist documents, becoming the first serving UK police officer convicted of a terrorism-related offence, with his identification tracing directly to the 2019 Iron March database leak.
- Cameron Finnigan Cameron Finnigan was a 19-year-old from Horsham convicted in January 2025 at the Old Bailey of possessing a terrorism manual and encouraging a young woman to livestream her suicide, sentenced to six years as a member of the 764 network, which Counter Terrorism Policing described as posing an immense threat.
- Charlie Sargent Charlie Sargent co-founded Combat 18 in 1992, was convicted of murder at Chelmsford Crown Court in January 1998 for the stabbing death of Christopher Castle, and was publicly identified by ITV's World in Action and a Statewatch investigation as a Special Branch informant, though he never confirmed the allegation.
- David Myatt David Myatt is a British far-right ideologue widely attributed as the founder of the Order of Nine Angles under the pseudonym Anton Long, whose writings directly influenced the 1999 London nailbomber David Copeland, yet he was never charged with terrorism despite decades of published incitement to murder and a three-year Scotland Yard investigation.
- Declan George-Candiani Declan George-Candiani was a 26-year-old actor from Streatham convicted in October 2024 at the Old Bailey of two terrorism possession counts after being stopped at Stansted Airport, who told police he had developed an interest in the Order of Nine Angles after they found extreme right-wing material on his devices.
- Harry Vaughan Harry Vaughan was an 18-year-old grammar school student from Kingston-upon-Thames convicted in November 2020 at the Old Bailey of 14 terrorism offences including creating Sonnenkrieg Division propaganda, who received a suspended sentence criticised by counter-extremism researchers.
- Jacek Tchorzewski Jacek Tchorzewski was an 18-year-old Polish national in Buckinghamshire stopped at Luton Airport in February 2019 and convicted of ten terrorism possession offences at the Old Bailey, sentenced to four years, with documented interests in Satanism, neo-Nazism, and Sonnenkrieg Division.
- Jack Reed Jack Reed was a 16-year-old neo-Nazi from County Durham convicted in November 2019 of six terrorism offences including preparation of a terrorist attack, whose handwritten manifesto contained an Order of Nine Angles symbol and listed Jewish community venues among his planned targets in Durham.
- Luca Benincasa Luca Benincasa was a Cardiff neo-Nazi sentenced to nine years and three months at Winchester Crown Court in January 2023, becoming the first person convicted under the UK proscription of Feuerkrieg Division for membership in a proscribed organization and possession of bomb-making materials.
- Luke Hunter Luke Hunter was a Newcastle propagandist affiliated with Feuerkrieg Division who ran a Telegram channel with over 1,200 subscribers, was convicted of seven terrorism charges in 2020, and sentenced to four years and two months at Leeds Crown Court.
- Michael Szewczuk Michael Szewczuk was a 19-year-old Leeds resident who co-founded the Sonnenkrieg Division and was sentenced in June 2019 to four years and three months at the Old Bailey for encouraging terrorism and possessing terrorist manuals including imagery targeting Prince Harry as a 'race traitor' for execution.
- Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski was an 18-year-old from West London who was a Sonnenkrieg Division member sentenced in June 2019 to an 18-month Detention and Training Order at the Old Bailey for two counts of encouraging terrorism via Gab posts supporting Anders Breivik and calling for ethnic cleansing.
- Paul Dunleavy Paul Dunleavy was a 17-year-old from Rugby convicted in October 2020 at Birmingham Crown Court of preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism by distributing firearm-conversion manuals to Feuerkrieg Division members, including to the Lithuanian member who later planted a bomb in Vilnius.
- Ryan Fleming Ryan Fleming was a regional organiser for National Action's Yorkshire branch and an O9A nexion leader who ran the Drakon Covenant cell, publishing occultist texts under the pseudonym A.A. Morain while accumulating convictions for child sexual abuse spanning 2012 to 2021.
- William Sargant British psychiatrist at St. Thomas' Hospital who built a theoretical framework linking religious conversion, political indoctrination, and interrogation compliance to identical physiological mechanisms, ran a decade-long coercive deep sleep ward at the Royal Waterloo Hospital in London that produced five documented deaths and widespread lasting harm, and served as an informal MI5 consultant while maintaining professional relationships with Ewen Cameron and other CIA-connected researchers.
Organizations (16)
- Blood and Honour Blood and Honour is a neo-Nazi music promotion and distribution network founded by Ian Stuart Donaldson and Nicky Crane in July 1987, whose infrastructure was absorbed by Combat 18 after Donaldson's death in 1993 and which provided the financial base and transnational connections that sustained C18's activities through the mid-1990s.
- Combat 18 Combat 18 was a British neo-Nazi paramilitary organisation founded in 1992 as a BNP stewarding group, responsible for numerous violent attacks and linked to international neo-Nazi networks and loyalist paramilitaries, proscribed by the UK Home Office in February 2020 under S.I. 2020/200.
- Drakon Covenant The Drakon Covenant is an Order of Nine Angles nexion based in Yorkshire, England, led by Ryan Fleming under the pseudonym A.A. Morain, which maintained documented ties to the American nexion Tempel ov Blood and served as the principal channel of O9A ideology into National Action during 2015 to 2017.
- Dynavest Limited Dynavest Limited was a London arms dealing company run by John Knight that acquired arms from Yugoslavia for resale to Mohammed Radi Abdullah, who distributed them to Palestinian groups including Abu Nidal.
- Elm Guest House The Elm Guest House was a suburban brothel operating near central London in the early 1980s that served as a front for an international child trafficking network connected to powerful political and business figures.
- Grafton Close Children's Home Grafton Close Children's Home was a Richmond Council-run facility in London during the early 1980s that became infamous for its alleged role in supplying children to the Elm Guest House VIP pedophile network.
- National Action National Action was a British neo-Nazi organization proscribed in December 2016 as the UK's first banned terrorist group since World War II, producing more than a dozen criminal convictions for membership and terrorism offenses between 2018 and 2022.
- Order of Nine Angles The Order of Nine Angles is a British neo-Nazi occultist organization whose Insight Roles doctrine of committing crimes as spiritual initiation made it a foundational influence on Atomwaffen Division, Tempel ov Blood, and the broader accelerationist ecosystem, and which has never been proscribed in the UK despite eight terrorism convictions linked to it in two years.
- RapeWaffen Division RapeWaffen Division was a Telegram-based O9A nexion promoting rape and murder as ideological weapons, whose membership included U.S. Army soldier Ethan Phelan Melzer, convicted in 2022 for transmitting classified military intelligence to enable a mass-casualty attack on his unit.
- Scattered Spider Scattered Spider is a Cyber Com cybercriminal group of English-speaking teenagers and young adults known for SMS phishing, SIM swapping, and ransomware against major corporations, with at least eight members charged or convicted as of mid-2026.
- Searchlight Magazine Searchlight is a British anti-fascist investigative magazine founded in 1962 that ran informants inside Combat 18 and the British neo-Nazi movement throughout the 1990s, published the first identification of David Myatt as Anton Long in April 1998, and worked with BBC Panorama to document David Copeland's links to the National Socialist Movement.
- Sidem International Limited Sidem International Limited was a London arms dealing company involved in acquiring arms from Yugoslavia for resale to Mohammed Radi Abdullah, who distributed them to Palestinian groups including Abu Nidal.
- Strategic Intelligence Services Strategic Intelligence Services was a London company run by former British SAS officer Anthony Pearson that provided espionage services to Israel and other clients.
- The Sunday Mirror The Sunday Mirror is a British tabloid newspaper that was part of Robert Maxwell's publishing empire.
- The Sunday Times The Sunday Times is a British newspaper that struck a deal with Mordecai Vanunu's contact Oscar Guerrero to publish Vanunu's account and photographs of Israel's Dimona nuclear facility in exchange for a £250,000 advance.
- Toff's Travel Toff's Travel was a Channel-crossing coach service operated by Russell Tricker in the 1980s that was specifically used to smuggle boys from the United Kingdom into Amsterdam for sexual exploitation at Spartacus International venues.
Programs (4)
- Operation Arundel The investigation into Jonathan King and Chris Denning in the early 2000s led to Operation Arundel, into a suspected pedophile ring of BBC celebrities in the 1970s and 1980s who allegedly procured boys and girls from an underage nightclub called the...
- Operation Fernbridge Operation Fernbridge was launched by the Metropolitan Police in February 2013 as a full criminal investigation into allegations that prominent people, including politicians, abused boys at the Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London during the...
- Operation Midland Operation Midland was a Scotland Yard investigation launched in November 2014 focusing on cold case files related to two child murders from 1979 and 1981 with potential connections to the Elm Guest House.
- Operation Yewtree Operation Yewtree was a Metropolitan Police investigation launched in October 2012 following the death of BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, which uncovered systemic child sexual abuse by BBC figures and connections to international trafficking networks.
Events (1)
- Operation Jorica Operation Jorica was a Metropolitan Police internal review of vetting and hiring practices covering the ten years prior to April 2023, published in January 2026, which found that nearly 90 per cent of 5,073 recruits examined had not been subjected to special branch counter-terrorism screening during the Police Uplift Programme recruitment period.
Places (1)
- Syrian Embassy in London The Syrian Embassy in London was implicated in a 1986 plot to bomb an El Al plane, orchestrated by Rafi Eitan to discredit Syria.