A Tooting neo-Nazi faces jail after organising the publication of a vile racist magazine.

Michael Denis, 30, of Ashdown Way, was part of a six-strong gang which sought to stir up racial hatred and ill-feeling in British communities.

Last Tuesday at the Old Bailey, Denis pleaded guilty to conspiracy to publish and distribute racially inflammatory material with the intention of stirring up racial hatred.

He was the mastermind behind the publication of Stormer magazine, which praised Soho nail bomber David Copeland and launched sickening anti-Semitic attacks.

Polish national Denis organised for Stormer to be published in his homeland with the intent of distributing it in Britain.

It later emerged the racist gang belonged to the Racial Volunteer Force (RVF), a group that splintered from neo-Nazi organisation Combat 18. The group also produced racist posters, magazines, DVDs and badges.

In 2003, police launched Operation Attend after becoming alarmed at the RVF's website. The site's source was traced to an address in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and the net began to close on the extreme group.

Detective Inspector Ron Jackson, of Lincolnshire Police, spearheaded an investigation involving Greater Manchester, Surrey, Bedfordshire and the Metropolitan police forces.

D Insp Howard said: "This material we are talking about is extreme right-wing in the purest sense. It is difficult to think of anything which could be more extreme.

"It is a Nazi publication and its main intent was stir up hatred in factions of the community in Britain. So we are very pleased they have now been prosecuted."

Four other RVF members pleaded guilty to conspiracy and one member confessed to distributing racist materials. Two of the members who pleaded guilty to conspiracy also admitted running the racist website. They will face sentencing at the same court next month.

Charges against Elizabeth Hunt, of Southport, were dropped.

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