Former British police officer jailed for belonging to the banned neo-Nazi group reuters.com

Police mugshot of Benjamin Hannam, 22, a probationary police constable with the London Metropolitan Police, convicted of belonging to neo-Nazi terrorist group. Metropolitan Police/Handout via REUTERS

A former British police officer has been sentenced to four years and four months in prison for belonging to a banned neo-Nazi group in the UK and for possessing extremist material.

Benjamin Hannam, 22, was the first police officer in Britain to be convicted of a terrorism offence.

Hannam, who had worked as a probationary police officer with the London Metropolitan Police, was found guilty earlier this month of belonging to National Action. The group was outlawed after it praised the murder of Jo Cox, a female member of parliament who was killed in a street attack in 2016 by a Nazi-obsessed loner.

The Ex-police officer was also convicted of lying on his police application forms and owning terrorism documents. He had previously admitted possessing indecent images of a child.

Hanman, who was dismissed from the force after his conviction, was sentenced on Friday at London’s Old Bailey court.

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