A British court has jailed a neo-Nazi couple and four other men for membership in the banned far-right group National Action.
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Prosecutors say Adam Thomas, 22, and Portuguese-born Claudia Patatas, 38, from the town of Banbury in central England, gave their infant son the middle name Adolf - after Adolf Hitler - and taught their daughter to perform Nazi salutes.
Birmingham Crown Court convicted the pair and Daniel Bogonuvic, 27, last month, while three other men aged 24 to 28 years old pleaded guilty before the trial.
Thomas was sentenced to six years and six months in prison on Tuesday, while Patatas was handed a five-year sentence.
The other four defendants were sentenced to up to six years and four months in prison.
"These individuals were not simply racist fantasists. We now know they were a dangerous, well-structured organisation," West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit head Matt Ward said after the group's conviction.
"Their aim was to spread neo-Nazi ideology by provoking a race war in the UK and they had spent years acquiring the skills to carry this out," Ward said.
They had researched how to make explosives and had gathered weapons, he added.
The government banned National Action in December 2016, but anti-fascist campaigners Hope Not Hate estimated last year that the group still had 50 to 100 "hardcore members" and used several different names to mask its activities.
Police detained five more people accused of membership of National Action on suspicion of terrorism in September.
Australian Associated Press