Neo-Nazi podcasters who called for Prince Harry’s death are given prison sentences

Two neo-Nazi podcasters who called for Prince Harry’s execution were sentenced to prison in London on Thursday.

The podcast hosts, Christopher Gibbons, 40, and Tyrone Patten-Walsh, 36, both from London, were convicted on all charges against them in July.

Mr Gibbons, who was convicted of encouraging acts of terrorism and the dissemination of terrorist publications, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Mr Patten-Walsh was jailed for seven years for encouraging acts of terrorism.

A police statement described the men’s views as “homophobic, racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and misogynistic.”

“The material Gibbons and Patten-Walsh shared is exactly the kind of material that has the potential to lure vulnerable people – especially young people – into terrorism,” Cmdr. Dominic Murphy, head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command.

Police said the men produced 21 episodes of their podcast, initially titled “Lone Wolf Radio” and later renamed “Black Wolf Radio,” which had about 125 subscribers. Mr. Gibbons also created an online library of far-right material, police said, with about 1,000 subscribers.

“The evidence shows that you wish to live in a world dominated by white people, purely for white people,” said the judge who handed down the sentences, Peter Lodder. according to the Associated Press.

During the men’s trial the court was told that they hated mixed-race relations; that they had called for Prince Harry, whose wife, Meghan Markle, is biracial, to be “judicially murdered for treason”; and that they had made snide comments about the couple’s son, Archie.

“They are committed and unapologetic white supremacists,” said prosecutor Anne Whyte said in court during their trial, according to media reports. “They thought that if they used the format of a radio program, virtually in plain sight, they could pass off their enterprise as the legitimate exercise of their freedom of expression.”