‘Neo-Nazi’ student, 23, wrote an essay titled ‘Join your local Nazis’, court hears
‘Neo-Nazi’ student, 23, accused of 12 terror offences is ‘pictured performing a Hitler salute’ and was berated by his professor father after sending him a link to fascist documentary, court told
- Andrew Dymock, 23, from Bath, Somerset, wrote anti-Jewish tweets, court hears
- A string of tweets included an anti-Jewish post picturing a German SS soldier
- Defendant denied being behind Twitter accounts and claimed he was ‘set up’
A suspected neo-Nazi student was responsible for a string of tweets, including an anti-Jewish post on Remembrance Day which featured a picture of a German SS soldier, a court has heard.
Andrew Dymock, 23, allegedly promoted the extremist right-wing group System Resistance Network (SRN) through a Twitter account and a website before it was banned.
The defendant, from Bath in Somerset, has denied being behind the accounts and claimed he was ‘set up’, the Old Bailey has previously heard.
Today jurors were shown a stream of SRN tweets which included images that were later recovered from devices seized from Dymock’s bedroom.
On November 11 2017, a tweet featuring an image of a German SS soldier hailed those who fought for ‘Europe’s freedom against Jewish Bolshevism and Capitalism’.
It stated: ‘Their sacrifice shall not be in vain. Hail victory. #11November #RemembranceDay.’
Jurors viewed other tweets which contained homophobic, racist, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic language.
On November 23 2017, the SRN account tweeted about the former military commander Ratko Mladic the day after he was convicted of war crimes, claiming he ‘did nothing wrong’.
A picture released by Counter Terrorism Policing North East of an image of a person wearing a top (right) similar to one which was recovered from home of Andrew Dymock, and which has been exhibited in his right-wing extremism trial at the Old Bailey in London
Andrew Dymock, 23, (pictured) allegedly promoted the extremist right-wing group System Resistance Network (SRN) through a Twitter account and a website before it was banned
Pictured: T-shirts found in the bedroom of Dymock when anti-terrorism police raided his bedroom
It was followed three days later with a tweet stating the ‘fascist state should be achieved through blood and black printer ink’ which was retweeted twice and liked 32 times.
By December 19 2018, the SRN Twitter account had displayed a total of 75 posts and had 650 followers, jurors heard.
Today jurors were also shown email exchanges between Dymock and his parents Stella and Dr David Dymock who he lived with in Bath, Somerset.
On May 1 2017, he sent them an email with the subject ‘Watch this’.
It contained a link to a YouTube video entitled Oswald Mosley Documentary – Multiculturalism, which has since been removed.
Dr Dymock, a professor of dentistry, replied requesting his son not to send ‘any of your political stuff to my work email account because I work in a multicultural institution, am proud to do so, and believe in the values of that institution.
The defendant, from Bath in Somerset, has denied being behind the accounts and claimed he was ‘set up’, the Old Bailey has previously heard
A picture released by Counter Terrorism Policing North East of an image of a person wearing a top (left) similar to one which was recovered from home of Andrew Dymock, and which has been exhibited in his right-wing extremism trial at the Old Bailey
‘I would hate anyone who might see my emails to think that I sympathised with fascist views in any way.’
The email was signed off ‘Love, Dad’.
In her reply, Mrs Dymock wrote: ‘Not what I expected. Thoroughly illuminating.’
Jurors heard the response referenced hedge fund managers and bankers and was signed ‘Love Mum’.
Dr Dymock attended court by video link to watch the prosecution case against his son at the Old Bailey.
Andrew Dymock allegedly created and managed the neo-Nazi website ‘The Lion Rises’ and posted racist content to SRN’s Twitter account.
A video was posted on The Lion Rises on 7 September 2017 following Southampton Pride and featured a poster of a man performing a Nazi salute holding a noose over his shoulder and calls to ‘protect children from degenerate scum’.
Posts to the website from 23 December 2017 included essays written by Dymock, titled ‘They will never understand us’, ‘The Truth about the Holocaust’ and ‘Join your local Nazis’.
In another article ‘Homosexuality: The Eternal Social Menace’ the author stated that gay people ‘are simply degenerate and must be purged from society for the greater good’.
Analysis of Dymock’s phone showed him being in Southampton on the day of Pride and a train booking reference was found in his mobile phone.
Jocelyn Ledward, prosecuting, said the SRN material was part of ‘an agenda against the LGBT community’.
Jurors heard Dymock used the well-known Neo-Nazi code ‘1488’ in an article, combining references to a white supremacist slogan known as the ’14 words’ and ‘Heil Hitler’, with H being the eighth letter of the alphabet.
Dymock’s website also prominently featured photos of founder of the American Nazi Party founder and Fuhrer of the World Union of National Socialists, George Lincoln Rockwell, who was murdered by a disgruntled former member of his party in 1967.
Jurors have heard how Dymock used the SRN twitter account two disseminate two separate terrorist publications.
On the second day of his trial, prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward alleged Dymock published an anti-Semitic article on the SRN website in October 2017, while he was studying politics at Aberystwyth University in Wales.
In an article called ‘The truth about the Holocaust’, Dymock allegedly wrote: ‘The only guilt felt by the Germanic race in regard to the Holocaust should be that we did not finish the job.
‘Far too many people are getting caught up on debating the death toll of the Holocaust as if it matters at all… the issue is not the given death toll, the issue is that the death toll was not of the entire Jewish race.’
The article continued to describe Jewish people as ‘a cancer on this earth’ which ‘must be eradicated in its entirety’, the jury heard.
Ms Ledward told the court: ‘The article is clear in its encouragement of the eradication of Jewish people.
‘Such encouragement constitutes encouragement to commit acts of terrorism.’
Dymock has denied five charges of encouraging terrorism, two of funding terrorism, stirring up racial hatred and hatred based on sexual orientation, four counts of disseminating terrorist publications, possessing a terrorist document and possessing racially inflammatory material.
