July 21, 2021- 3:22 p.m.
Andrew Dymock, 24, the middle-class son of Bath academics, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for fundraising for a banned neo-Nazi terror group
A neo-Nazi student who carved a swastika in his girlfriend’s buttock was sentenced to seven years in prison today after raising money for a banned far-right group.
Andrew Dymock, 24, the son of middle-class academics, told jurors ‘Thank you for killing me’ after he was found guilty of 15 charges in June, including 12 terrorism-related offenses.
This afternoon judge Mark Dennis QC found Dymock a dangerous offender, highlighting his ongoing ‘state of denial’.
He sentenced Dymock to seven years in prison, with an additional three-year extended license.
According to the judge, Dymock was an “active and committed supporter of right-wing neo-Nazi extremism.”
He held a “prominent role” in the now banned group System Resistance Network (SRN) in 2017, promoting it on a website and Twitter.
In 2018, when he was “expelled” as leader, he supported the formation of a new group, the judge said.
Pictured: Image released by Counter Terrorism Policing North East of a person wearing a skull mask sent via an electronic device used by Dymock
Dymock was “driven by an extremist mindset that had become entrenched by the time of his arrest” and his actions were “calculated and refined” and designed to encourage others to “commit gratuitous violence against people because of their race, creed or sexuality.” the judge said.
In conclusion, the judge said Dymock was intelligent and well-read, but “completely misguided” in advocating his “distorted and bad case.”
Earlier in the trial, the court learned that Dymock was promoting the now banned group System Resistance Network (SRN), which was “wanting to foment a race war” via a Twitter account and a website.
He used online platforms to raise money for the organization, which preached “zero tolerance” against non-white, Jewish and Muslim communities and described homosexuality as a “disease.”
Dymock, who was studying politics at Aberystwyth University in Wales at the time, denied being behind the bills, claiming he was set up by an ex-girlfriend, who had not recruited him to join the banned terrorist group National Action (NA ).
Police found a photo on one of Dymock’s devices that had a swastika carved into the woman’s buttock, and he told detectives in a January 2019 interview that he used his fingernail to scratch the symbol.
The Atomwaffen Division was established in the US around 2013 with the aim of destroying civilization in order to build a National Socialist state.
The British offshoots were known as the Sonnenkrieg Division and System Resistance Network (SRN).
Jurors heard that SRN was one of the organizations filling the “dubious gap” after the far-right group National Action was banned in 2016.
The homepage of the neo-Nazi group SRN declared its goal to be the destruction of ‘the system’ and ‘lead the European to his destination’, before quoting Hitler.
SRN was banned in 2020.
Dymock’s computer revealed long-standing extremist views dating back to when he was 17, including a Google translation of the words “Kill all the Jews.”
The court heard that SRN was one of a small number of groups that filled a “dubious void” following the ban on the far-right group National Action and was itself banned in 2020.
On October 8, 2017, Dymock wrote about the founding of SRN on a right-wing webpage, stating that the group was “focused on building a group of loyal men, loyal to the cause of National Socialism and establishing the fascist state through means of revolution.
Dymock was expelled from the SRN in late February 2018, four months before he was arrested at Gatwick Airport when he tried to board a flight to America.
Police found in his luggage far-right literature, including Siege, an anthology of pro-Nazi essays written by James Mason and Mein Kampf, along with clothing with neo-Nazi logos.
He also had books, flags, clothing and badges associated with the far right in his bedroom at home and in college.
Dymock claimed that material linking him to content on the SRN website and Twitter account was “planted into his possession without his knowledge.”
Jurors were previously shown this image of a figure with a swastika flag found on Dymock devices
The court heard how he advertised the far-right group System Resistance Network (SRN) through a Twitter account and a website, which “wanted to foment a race war.”
An image released by Counter Terrorism Policing North East shows a person wearing a top (right) that resembles one recovered from Dymock’s home
He denied being a neo-Nazi, telling police: “In fact I am bisexual, but tend to be homosexual, in direct conflict with Nazism.”
He told the jurors that he had Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto – along with books on Satanism – for “research” into right-wing populism.
The jury found Dymock guilty of five charges of encouraging terrorism, two of fundraising for terrorism, four of distributing terrorist publications, possession of a terrorist document, inciting racial and sexual hatred, and possession of racially incendiary material.
Dymock was supported during his trial by his parents, Stella and Dr David Dymock, a professor of dentistry at the University of Bristol, with whom he lived in Bath, Somerset.
In a previous email chat, Dr. Dymock tried to distance himself from his son’s views, telling him ‘don’t send any of your political stuff to my corporate email account because I work in a multicultural institution, am proud of that and believe in the values of that institution. .
“I would hate that anyone who saw my emails would think I sympathized in any way with fascist views.”
Dymock, of Bath, Somerset, is said to have joined the white supremacist groups Sonnenkrieg Division and System Resistance Network (SRN) between 2017 and 2018.
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