16 May 2024 , 21:55
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A neo-Nazi who shared a document on ethnic cleansing and bragged his hometown was “97% white” faces a prison sentence.
Gareth Waite, 47, uploaded several 'strategy' documents relating to a proscribed far-right terrorist organisation National Action, jurors heard. The terrorist publications included The Anarchist Handbook, How to Start and Train a Militia Unit, CIA explosives for sabotage manual, and 100 deadly skills.
Police began their investigations into the Welshman after he boasted about the number of white people in his hometown of Cardigan. He had also uploaded an ethnic cleansing operation' document, as well as two National Action strategy documents and Adolf Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf.
Prosecutor Maryam Syed, KC, earlier said: “In August 2019 somebody with the username 8bit uploaded to the world future mx website the following documents. National Action is a far right neo-Nazi organisation and is based in the UK.
“It was founded in 2013 and the group is secretive and has rules to prevent members from talking about it openly. It has been a proscribed banned organisation in the UK since the terrorism act of 2000 made it so on the 16th of December 2016.
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“Enquiries were then carried out to identify who this individual was and who was the end-user of certain accounts being used. He was also identified because he used a Pepe the Frog meme with a pink bra over the eyes as a profile picture on several of his anonymous online accounts.
"8bit also had accounts on something called Keybase and world truth mx social. World truth mx media - it's a social media site and it's a free speech site and it is populated predominantly with right wing content. These are social media platforms. When the police checked the accounts the username '8bitkek' stated in its biography: National Socialist Wales.”
Waite denied but was convicted by the jury of four counts of transmitting a terrorist publication electronically and two counts of possessing a document containing information useful to terrorism. He earlier admitted expressing an opinion or belief that was supportive of a proscribed terrorist organisation. Judge Andrew Lees remanded Waite in custody ahead of sentencing on 2 June.