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A NAZI fitness guru extradited from Spain to face terror charges in the UK has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Online radical Kris Kearney

- who claimed Adolf Hitler ‘showed people the way’ and ‘did nothing wrong’ - was found guilty of promoting terrorism after he shared inflammatory material on his online forum.

The charges relate to numerous posts in which he shared among others the violent manifestos of New Zealand mosque killer Brenton Tarrant and Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik. London’s Old Bailey heard he also shared a ‘Punish a

Expat nazi terrorist Kris ‘Charlie Big Potatoes’ Kearney gets five years

By Walter Finch

Muslim Day’ letter, in which readers were encouraged to ‘butcher a Muslim’ for 500 points and bomb a mosque for 1,000 points.

In 2021 alone, he posted 89 extreme right-wing documents, which encouraged violence in the battle against ‘white genocide’.

The member of Patriotic Alternative - who the Olive Press revealed travelled regularly between his home in Albir, on the Costa Blanca, to Marbella

Orange rustlers

- ran an online platform called ‘Fascist Fitness’. The far-right podcaster - who had been on the run in Spain with his wife and three children when he committed his offences in 2021 - also spent time in Dubai.

Terrorism

The neo-Nazi, from Liverpool, had originally been stopped under the Terrorism Act and fled an arrest warrant two years before his arrest in Spain. He was understood to have been on a layover in a UK

Finally Facing The Music

ONE of Ireland’s most legendary gangsters has finally agreed to his extradition to face justice in Spain.

Darren Gilligan - son of notorious drug trafficker John Gilligan - will now stand trial alongside his father and seven others in Torrevieja.

They face a variety of charges, including drug trafficking into Ireland, and firearm charges.

The gang had hid drugs among flip-flops, as well as illegally exporting powerful sleeping pills.

An earlier trial was suspended in October after Gilligan junior skipped the country and returned to Ireland where he began work as an Amazon delivery driver.

A second trial date in April was also postponed, with an international arrest warrant issued against Gilligan. Other defendants include John Gilligan’s British girlfriend, known only as Sharon, and his playboy pal, ‘Fat’ Tony Armstrong. John Gilligan was tried in Dublin in 1996 for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin and acquitted. A search of Gilligan’s Torrevieja area villa in October 2020 uncovered a revolver buried in the garden which was similar to the one used to kill Guerin but nothing further could be confirmed.

Brian Meehan, a member of Gilligan’s gang, was given a life sentence for the execution.

airport en route to the UAE in 2019 when officers first detained him. It came after he refused to divulge passwords for three separate mobile phones he was travelling with, suggesting he may have been working for mafia gangs. A warrant was later issued for his arrest after he skipped a magistrate’s hearing on July 2 that year and fled to Spain. Kearney, a former soldier, had close links to the Costa Blanca, where his parents also lived, and ran a bar. Kearney, 39, pleaded guilty admitting he wanted to ‘spread fascist views’, but denied he shared the material on Telegram with the intention of causing terror attacks.

Judge Richard Marks KC doubted this, insisting his ‘fanaticism’ in achieving his objectives meant he ‘intended for acts of terrorism to happen’. He sentenced him to four years and eight months.

A VAN crammed with 600 kilos of stolen oranges refused to stop for the police who then pursued it on a highspeed chase. Police were operating a routine checkpoint in Orihuela when they tried to stop a van with two men driving towards Murcia in a 'suspicious manner'. But the driver put his foot down and roared off at high speed.

A chase ensued and after a few minutes the occupants abandoned the vehicle.

Officers examined the van and besides various tools, they discovered 42 baskets full of stolen oranges. Evidence inside the vehicle allowed the two men to be identified and the 42-year-old driver was arrested.

Hanging offence

CARTAGENA court is investigating a pet owner after his dog was found dead outside his Fuente Alamo home. Police stepped in after his American Staffordshire was found hung by its neck from its chain on a stone wall in the Murcia town.

The dog did not have any appropriate documentation or vaccination.