Far-right Southport riots instigator had history of Nazism and posted about “k*ke ideology”
A Lancashire taxi driver, who was sentenced in court on Monday for his involvement in the far-right riots last summer, was found to have a history of engaging with neo-Nazi ideology.
Andrew McIntyre, 39, was sentenced to seven and half years’ imprisonment at Liverpool Crown Court following his guilty plea to charges of encouraging violent disorder and carrying a knife.
Mr McIntyre was responsible for setting up “Southport Wake Up”, a far-right Telegram channel that was used to instigate and organise the riots last year. The riots across Britain began following the murder of three children in Southport, an incident that was falsely attributed to an asylum-seeker.
Other messages from users in Southport Wake Up also reportedly said that they “support neither brown nor Jew” and claimed that “our nation is our land and our people.” Another message in the channel described Hitler as “the only politician since Roman times to truly care for his people”. In the same message, they wrote: “The Jewish people fabricated the Holocaust – ensuring they would never again be questioned by Europeans while they destroyed their homelands […]
“Today, Jewish media, NGOs, finance, business, entertainment and a huge overrepresentation in government, are doing the same all over Europe.
“The fight will be long brothers, but we will succeed. Never capitulate.”
Mr McIntyre, who used the alias ‘Stimpy’, was found to have sent a message in the channel urging people to target mosques with Molotov cocktails. He also suggested that synagogues could be targeted and referred to “k*ke ideology”.
It was also revealed that only days after rioters had attacked hotels housing asylum seekers, he shared a video of the Christchurch Mosque attack in 2019 with the caption: “WHITE LEGEND. F*** ISLAM, F*** JEWS.”
He also sent an image of a woman doing a Nazi salute to a neo-Nazi symbol to the Telegram channel.
This was not the only time that Mr McIntyre was found to have engaged with Nazism. Police discovered a copy of Mein Kampf at his residence and in July 2022, he posted an image of himself performing a Nazi salute. Mein Kampf was the Magnum Opus and manifesto of the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler.
Mr McIntyre was arrested on 8th August last year after advocacy group Hope Not Hate shared his identity with Merseyside Police, following an extensive investigation of his online activity. It is understood that he used over 160 anonymous accounts, each active for only one or two days.
Image credit: Merseyside Police