PARENTS who 'named their baby after Hitler' have been jailed for 11-and-a-half years for being members of a neo-Nazi terrorist group.

Adam Thomas, 22 and Claudia Patatas, 38 were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court today, Tuesday after being found guilty of being members of the extreme right-wing organisation National Action, which was banned in 2016.

Thomas has been jailed for six-and-a-half years while Patatas has been jailed for five years.

The court has previously heard how the couple gave their child the middle name Adolf, which the prosecution alleged was in honour of the infamous Nazi leader.

Patatas, a wedding photographer, originally from Portugal and Thomas, an ex-Amazon security guard, were found guilty following a seven-week trial.

The crown prosecution service also claimed the couple had links with 'prominent members' Christopher Lythgoe, of Greymist Avenue, Woolston, and Matthew Hankinson, from Merseyside, who were convicted after trial in July.

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During the opening of the case earlier this year, Barnaby Jameson, prosecuting, told jurors the couple were alleged members of National Action - a group 'so extreme and violent' it was banned by the Government in December 2016.

Mr Jameson said: "This case is about a specific type of terror.

"It is a terror that regards anyone who falls outside a cult of violent white racial supremacy as sub-human.

"Those that fall into the sub-human category are primarily blacks, Jews and Asians.

"Others in that category include gays, Communists and feminists.

"The cult had particular venom for female Labour MPs perceived as sympathetic to migrants.

"It is a terror that can be summarised in two words: 'White Jihad' - in other words, a white holy war.

"This terror was spread by a small cell of fanatics of whom you will hear a great deal."

The sentencing judge said both had 'a long history of violent racist beliefs'.

In all, six people were sentenced on Tuesday, for being members of what Judge Melbourne Inman QC described as a group with 'horrific aims'.

He said: "Its aims and objectives are the overthrow of democracy in this country by serious violence and murder, and the imposition of a Nazi-style state which would eradicate whole sections of society by such violence and mass murder."

Last week, the court heard the prosecution claim that Fletcher had taught his daughter to give a Nazi salute, and that he sent a message to Patatas saying 'finally got her to do it'.

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Claudia Patatas. Photo by Aaron Chown/PA Wire

The jury was told that Thomas and Patatas gave their child the middle name "Adolf", which Thomas said was in 'admiration' of Hitler, and the couple had Swastika scatter cushions in their home.

Photographs recovered from their address also showed Thomas cradling his newborn son while wearing the hooded white robes of a Ku Klux Klansman.

In conversation with another National Action member, Patatas said 'all Jews must be put to death', while Thomas had once told his partner he found 'all non-whites intolerable'.

Thomas, a twice-failed Army applicant, was also convicted on a majority verdict of having a terrorist manual, namely the Anarchist's Cookbook, which jurors heard contained instructions on making "viable" bombs.

The couple, of Waltham Gardens, Banbury, Oxfordshire, held hands and wept as they were sentenced.

Daniel Bogunovic, 27, of Crown Hills Rise, Leicester, a leading member in National Action's Midlands chapter, was also jailed.

He was convicted of membership of National Action after standing trial with Patatas and Thomas, and sentenced to six years and four months.