- Neo-Nazi Pedophile Imprisoned After Evading Initial Sentence
- Harry Blake Receives Three-Year Sentence for Counter-Terror Violation
- Judge Deems Defendant a “Significant Risk” and Imposes Severe Crime Prevention Order
After perpetrating additional crimes, a neo-Nazi pedophile who had previously evaded incarceration was incarcerated.
After pleading guilty to 14 terror offenses in 2020, Harry Blake from south-west London received a suspended sentence.
The 21-year-old was sentenced to three years and two months in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to violating a counter-terror order and creating an indecent image of a minor.
A judge at the Old Bailey stated that the defendant constituted a “significant risk” when he handed down his sentence.
Blake pled guilty to possessing extreme pornography, violating a crime prevention order and the provisions of his suspended prison sentence, and possessing extreme pornography.
Formerly Harry Vaughan, he is the son of a House of Lords secretary and a top grammar school graduate.
“Dangerous online community”
After his re-arrest the previous year, detectives discovered a prohibited laptop and mobile phone.
Material recovered from the devices demonstrated Blake’s “continued interest” in right-wing extremism, according to prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds.
Mr. Pawson-Pounds stated that Blake had conducted an online search for the proscribed terrorist organizations Sonnenkrieg Division and Atomwaffen Division. A book in which Adolf Hitler is revered as a deity was also in his possession.
Blake’s phone had footage of males “violently forcing” sex acts on women and a youngster being sexually abused.
Blake was exposed to a “toxic online community” at a young age, according to defense attorney Arthur Kendrick, and while the views instilled in him may take time to diminish, there are “green shoots” of change.
Blake pleaded guilty to 12 counts of possessing terrorist papers, one of inciting terrorism, and one of spreading terrorist publications in 2020.Moreover, he confessed to possessing videos of young boys being raped.
Despite concluding that Blake was threatening, the judge decided not to send him to jail. According to expert testimony, Blake’s ideology was a “hybrid” of neo-Nazism and violent Satanism.
Thursday, Judge Sarah Munro KC stated that when Blake was sentenced in 2020, he “falsely asserted” that his “mindset had changed” since his initial offenses.
In addition to his 38-month prison sentence, she placed him under a five-year severe crime prevention order.
