Austin Ross, 23, stuck racist posters on buildings around his home town, as well as torching a school and a masonic lodge, causing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage.
A court heard Ross was both a supporter of Tommy Robinson and far-right group System Resistance Network, and painted their initials SRN, as well as messages such as Free Tommy Robinson on buildings.
Between 2nd May and 31st May this year he spray painted Nazi symbols and stuck racist propaganda on to landmarks around his hometown of Newport, south Wales.
Prosecutor Jason Howells told Newport Crown Court that Ross first targeted the city’s Riverfront Theatre by posting a “racially abusive poster” on a window pane.
Mr Howells said: “The poster was linked to the System Resistance Network, and there were swastikas spray painted next to it.”
Ross went on to post racist posters on Bethel Community Church which read “Marxist maggots we remember faces, names places. SRN”
His next target was Newport’s multicultural Maindee Primary School, where parents reported seeing racist posters outside it referring to refugees, and the message “You have been visited by the SRN”.
Ross returned to the school four days later to spray paint several swastikas on its walls.
Undated handout image made available by the Crown Prosecution Service of swastikas and the letters…
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