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Neo-Nazi sentenced to almost a decade in prison after CST tip-off
CST identified Gareth Waite, 47, to the police after he shared antisemitic material from a proscribed terrorist group
August 13, 2024 11:00
CST identified Gareth Waite, 47, to the police after he shared antisemitic material from a proscribed terrorist group
August 13, 2024 11:00A Neo-Nazi from Wales has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison after a tip off from the Community Security Trust.
Extremist Gareth Waite, 47, was sentenced to 9 years 9 months for four counts of disseminating a terrorist publication, after sharing an ethnic cleansing operation document, two neo-Nazi strategy documents, and a copy of Mein Kampf, he also bragged his home town was “97% white”.
CST, who first identified Waite to the police, expressed their “deep appreciation to the UK’s counter-terrorism policing network”.
CST welcomes todays sentencing of Wales-based neo-Nazi, Gareth Waite. Waite first came onto CST's radar in 2019 for sharing terrorist material and deeply antisemitic content. CST referred Waite to @TerrorismPolice who today was sentenced to over 9 years in prison. Read more -…
“Waite first came to CST’s attention due to several reasons,” they said, “including having shared material from the far-right proscribed terrorist group, National Action, and for posting extreme, antisemitic, racist, and often violent content”.
DCI Leanne Williams, head of investigations at Counter Terrorism Policing Wales said: “We welcome the sentence handed down by the court today”. “This concludes what was a detailed, thorough, and complex investigation over many months by officers from CTP Wales, assisted by colleagues in Dyfed Powys Police,” she continued.
After being flagged for antisemitism by the CST, Counter Terrorism Police uncovered further evidence of Waite’s extremism. Waite was also convicted of two counts of possessing a document containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.
Waite had previously pleaded guilty to one offence of supporting a proscribed organisation – National Action. National Action, a neo-Nazi group established in 2013, was proscribed in 2016.
The Home Office described National Action as “virulently racist, antisemitic and homophobic”. The proscribed organisation promotes the idea that Britain “will inevitably see a violent ‘race war’, which the group claims it will be an active part of”.