Far-right website editor jailed over racial hatred

The editor of a far-right website who was a leading figure in a white supremacist movement has been jailed.

James Costello, 38, of Kirkby, placed stickers across Merseyside to advertise the website, which contained racist material.

Merseyside Police said Costello hoped he would recruit and radicalise people to the Creativity Movement.

He was jailed for five years at Liverpool Crown Court for 19 offences of stirring up racial hatred.

Nick Price, head of the Crown Prosecution Service's special crime and counter terrorism division, said: "James Costello styled himself as a "Reverend" as part of his ambition to try and stir up racial hatred wherever possible.

"The messages he posted were intended to sow disharmony and be a violent call to arms against black and Jewish people.

"Our prosecution was able to prove he was responsible for this racist material which should have no place in our society.

"It is right that he has been convicted today for these offences."