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Grimsby man on trial for race hate crimes.
Nathan Worrell 46 of Scotts Close, Grimsby is on trial at Grimsby Crown Court facing race hate charges he denies 11 charges. Worrell a far-right supporter is believed to have told police that Adolf Hitler was misunderstood and that people like him did not believe that the Jews were exterminated in gas chambers but died of diseases. His home in Grimsby was full of Hitler, the SS and Third Reich material, and references to the Ku Klux Klan.
He denies six offences of publishing or distributing the material to stir up racial hatred. He also denies five of stirring up racial hatred between 2017 and May last year. Stickers were put up on Corporation Bridge, People’s Park, Freeman Street, Aylesby Road, Grasby Crescent, Fishermans Wharf, St Nicholas Drive and Station Road Grimsby which was insulting, threatening and plainly directed at immigrants. It is believed that he had been in touch with a man about a National Front march in Grimsby and told him he would post stickers. There were references to Heil Hitler and a template for images was found on his computer. He had 86 stickers and 43 leaflets with racist material about Jews and Muslims. It is thought he is surrounded all day by images of Hitler, the SS, the Third Reich and the trappings of Neo-Nazism.
The trial at Grimsby Crown Court continues.
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