A Holocaust denier has failed in her bid  to have her conviction for broadcasting “grossly offensive” songs about Jews overturned.

Alison Chabloz, of Charlesworth, Derbyshire, applied for a judicial review of her landmark conviction on the basis of technicalities of what constitutes the act of sending offensive material online.

Her barrister, Adrian Davies, argued that uploading footage to YouTube did not qualify, since the site is an “inanimate object”.

Two of the counts she was convicted of related to her embedding a link on her personal blog to a YouTube video of one of her songs, which was uploaded to the video website by someone else.

Mr Davies argued this was equivalent to notifying the public of its existence, but fell short of endorsing it.

But the appellant could not dispute Westminster Magistrates’ ruling that her songs were grossly offensive, which was ruled a finding of fact.

On Thursday, Mr Justice Coulson and Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb denied Ms Chabloz’s application for a judicial review of her conviction at the Royal Courts of Justice, in central London.

Ms Chabloz was convicted in 2018 for writing, performing and publishing songs which mocked Jews and the Holocaust.

The charges related to songs titled Nemo’s Antisemitic Universe, I Like It How It Is, performed at the right-wing London Forum in 2016, and a third, titled (((survivors))).

The 55-year-old was briefly sent to HMP New Hall in September, after violating the terms of her sentence by continuing to post on her blog.

She is also currently banned from entering France, where Holocaust denial is illegal, until 2059.