A NEO-NAZI extremist has been jailed for attacking two brothers because one of them had a black girlfriend.
Alexander Gray threatened to dislocate one victim’s jaw and rape his girlfriend after targeting them in a shop in Chudleigh because of the woman’s dark skin.
He went on to launch an unprovoked attack on the man and his brother, who had come to escort him home because of the threats. He was seen on CCTV running at them and knocking one to the ground.
Gray is already serving a two-year jail sentence for spreading racial hatred through an extremist channel named Whiteness in the West Country. which he set up on the social media site Telegram.
He was described in that case as ‘the epitome of a racist thug’ by the judge after he watched videos in which Gray tried to spark a race war and gave Heil Hitler salutes.
The attacks in Chudleigh took place in February this year, two months before he launched his Telegram channel and at a time when he was working as a barber in the town.
Gray, aged 29, of Fore Street, Chudleigh, admitted two counts of battery and racially aggravated intentional threatening behaviour.
He was jailed for six months by Judge Peter Johnson at Exeter Crown Court and will serve the sentence after the two years he received in August.
The judge told him: ‘You were jailed previously for offences with an element of racism and a few months earlier, in the quiet market town of Chudleigh, you showed the same racism in the threats you made.
‘You uttered dreadful and dire threats and it is quite clear there was a racial element based on what you perceived his girlfriend to be.’
Miss Caroline Bolt, prosecuting, said one of the victims was in the Coop in Chudleigh with his girlfriend on February 11 this year when Gray approached him.
He said ‘I’m going to spin your jaw around and rape your P*** girlfriend in front of you’.
He left but then intercepted the victim and his brother after seeing them pass the barber’s shop where he was working.
He hit them both in the face and kicked one in the chest after he fell to the ground. He told police he was acting in self defence but the incident was caught on CCTV and showed he was the aggressor.
Mr Lee Bremridge, defending, said Gray had a drug problem at the time which he is addressing in prison. He has the support of his parents and will move back to their home when he is released.
Gray was described by a judge in the earlier case as ‘the epitome of a racist thug’ after being told that in addition to his videos, he had been seen giving Nazi salutes in the centre of Torquay.
He was prosecuted after officers from the South West counter terrorism team identified him as the creator of the Whiteness in the West Country channel.
His videos were three to six-minute long and recorded on his phone. He repeatedly used the N word, glorified Hitler and claimed society was being taken over by blacks, feminists and lesbians.
He urged white people to ‘wake up’ and ‘stand up’ and ended his rants with a Nazi salute or shouts of ‘Heil Victory’ and ‘White Power’.
In one video he spoke about Torbay being one of the only places in Britain where you can see white women with white children and said he hated racial mixing and thought women with black boyfriends were ‘scummy whores’.
He told his followers that if they didn’t act, they would be ‘digging their children’s graves, saying ‘don’t forget, these people are savages’.