Christopher Gibbons and Tyrone Patten-Walsh, the Neo-Nazi podcasters who targeted Prince Harry and his young son, were arrested for terror offenses on Thursday.
The two hosts were described as "dedicated and unapologetic white supremacists" who encouraged terrorism by the sentencing judge in London.
Gibbons, Patten-Walsh Arrested for Terror Offenses
The authorities reported that Gibbons and Patten-Walsh welcomed racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, homophobic, and misogynistic views and encouraged listeners of their 'Lone Wolf Radio' podcast to commit violent acts against ethnic minorities.
The two hosts used aliases on their show and supported the idea of hanging so-called race traitors, especially those in interracial marriages. They claimed that the white race was likely to be 'genocided' unless steps were taken to fight back.
Furthermore, Meghan, the spouse of Prince Harry, is biracial. During one episode, Gibbons labeled Harry's 4-year-old son Archie a "creature" that should be put down and said that the Duke of Sussex should be prosecuted and judicially killed for treason.
The Metropolitan Police reported that Gibbons was sentenced to eight years in prison, and Patten-Walsh received a 7-year term. Following their release, the two will serve three years on the equivalent of probation.
"The evidence demonstrates that you desire to live in a world dominated by white people purely for white people. Your distorted thinking is that the white race has ceded too much influence to Blacks and Asians, to Jews and Muslims, to gays, to white liberals, and white people in mixed-race relationships," Judge Peter Lodder said.
Lodder added that Gibbons and Patten-Walsh were entitled to hold their beliefs, regardless of being as preposterous as they are offensive to a civilized society. However, he felt they had gone too far. The podcasters started 'Lone Wolf Radio' in June 2020, with 128 subscribers and around 9,000 views of its 21 episodes.
Gibbons and Patten-Walsh celebrated right-wing extremists who killed many people in Charleston, South Carolina, Christchurch, New Zealand, and Norway. They also uploaded photos of a Nazi executing a Jewish man at the edge of a pit of corpses and Nelson Mandela being lynched.
A Kingston Crown court jury convicted the podcasters in July of eight counts of encouraging terrorism. According to the authorities, Gibbons was also found guilty on two charges of distributing terrorist documents through his online neo-Nazi radicalization library with over 2,000 subscribers.
Cmdr. Dominic Murphy, who heads the Met's counter-terrorism unit, said that the material they distributed was precisely the kind that has the potential to draw vulnerable young people into terrorism.
Teenage Neo-Nazis Attack Prince Harry's Wife
Michal Szewczuk and Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski were part of a group called the Sonnenkrieg Division. They encouraged an attack on Prince Harry for marrying a woman of mixed race and were jailed for terrorism offenses.
An Old Bailey judge claimed that their online propaganda was abhorrent and criminal.
Dunn-Koczorowski received an 18-month detention and training order, and Szewczuk was jailed for just over four years.
According to the court, the teenagers used pseudonyms to run personal accounts on the Gab social media site, as well as share control of the Sonnenkrieg Division's page, on which they posted self-designed propaganda that encouraged terrorist attacks.
