UK Sentences Podcasters Who Called for Killing Prince Harry

Neo-Nazis urged listeners to commit violence against ethnic minorities
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Jan 4, 2024 6:20 PM CST
UK Judge Sentences Neo-Nazi Podcasters
This photo combination provided by the Metropolitan Police on Thursday shows Christopher Gibbons, left and Tyrone Patten-Walsh.   (Metropolitan Police via AP)

A neo-Nazi podcaster who called for the deaths of Prince Harry and his young son received a prison sentence Thursday along with his co-host Thursday. The sentencing judge in London called the duo "dedicated and unapologetic white supremacists" who encouraged terrorism, the AP reports. Christopher Gibbons and Tyrone Patten-Walsh espoused racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, homophobic, and misogynistic views and encouraged listeners of their Lone Wolf Radio podcast to commit violent acts against ethnic minorities, authorities said. The two used alias on their show.

Gibbons and Tyrone Patten-Walsh told listeners that "the white race was likely to be 'genocided' unless steps were taken to fight back." They approved of a day when so-called race traitors would be hanged, particularly those in interracial relationships. Prince Harry's wife, Meghan, is biracial. On one episode, Gibbons said the Harry should be "prosecuted and judicially killed for treason" and called Harry's son, Archie, who is now 4, a "creature" that "should be put down." Gibbons, 40, was sentenced to eight years in prison, the Metropolitan Police said. Patten-Walsh, 34, was given a seven-year term. Both will be on the equivalent of probation for three years after their release.

"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 to white people in mixed-race relationships," Judge Peter Lodder told them, per the AP. While Patten-Walsh and Gibbons were entitled to hold their beliefs—regardless of being "as preposterous as they are offensive to a civilized society"—Lodder said they went too far. A jury convicted them in July of eight counts of encouraging terrorism. Gibbons was also convicted of two counts of disseminating terrorist documents through his online neo-Nazi "radicalization" library that had more than 2,000 subscribers, authorities said. The podcast had 128 subscribers and around 9,000 views of its 21 episodes.

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