A court is to hear evidence from six alleged neo-Nazis accused of planning for a race war as part of a banned terrorist group.
Jack Renshaw has admitted plotting to murder a Labour MP with a machete but denies being a member of National Action at the time.
Jurors heard the 23-year-old planned to kill Rosie Cooper before taking hostages in a pub and targeting a female police officer.
Co-defendants Garron Helm, 24, of Seaforth, Merseyside, Matthew Hankinson, 24, of Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, Andrew Clarke, 33, Christopher Lythgoe, 32, and Michal Trubini, 35, all of Warrington, also plead not guilty to membership of a proscribed group.
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12:44
Mr Mullen, who was known as Andy Brown, says he first contacted Hope Not Hate in April 2017.
"It was partly the direction things were going in," he tells the court. "I hoped to get out of the organisation."
12:43
Robbie Mullen, a former member of National Action who turned informant for Hope Not Hate and warned them of the plot to kill Rosie Cooper, has taken the stand
He says he started to become interested in the extreme right-wing as a teenage and joined National Action in 2015.
Mr Mullen says both he and all five defendants in the dock remained members after it was banned by the government as a terrorist group in December 2016.
12:29
Defence lawyers for My Lythgoe and Mr Hankinson have been asking the police officer additional questions on his recollection of their appearances at various National Action protests.
11:57
The court hears Mr Hankinson and Mr Lythgoe can be seen training in mixed martial arts in the second video, which ended with the slogan: "Join the white gang."
11:55
Mr Fletcher is giving evidence on National Action's use of training camps in rural areas.
He said the first attended by its members was called a "culture camp" in Wales' Brecon Beacon in August 2014, followed by another event in Derbyshire.
Videos played tot he court show members training in hand-to-hand combat and boxing.
Mr Fletcher says the group initially payed to join camps run by fellow neo-Nazi groups Sigurd and Western Spring but from 2016 started looking to recruit members who could conduct trianing themselves in order to save money.
11:52
The last National Action demonstration before the group was proscribed came in Darlington on 5 November 2016.
Mr Fletcher, who was among the officers policing the event, said Mr Clarke and Mr Lythgoe were among around 50 members at the event
"Mr Hankinson seemed to be the main gentlemen who was orchestrating the group," he added.
11:47
The prosecution is giving details of other stunts by National Action, including a Scottish Defence League protest they attended in March 2016 and demonstration in Rochdale the following month where defendant Andrew Clarke gave an antisemitic speech.
At another demonstration in May 2016 outside York Minster, the jury is shown a video where Mr Lythgoe is visible and members carried a banner reading "refugees not welcome, Hitler was right".
11:43
The jury has been shown National Action's own footage of disorder during a protest attended by its members in Liverpool on 27 February 2016
It showed defendants Mr Renshaw, Mr Lythgoe and Mr Clarke at the event.
National Action leader Benjamin Raymond gave a speech as members wearing skull masks and black clothing made Hitler salutes and shouted "sieg heil".
"We are going to mke Britain great again," said Mr Raymond.
"We who are hated are needed more than ever. We will continue to battle for the final victory for our race."
11:38
The jury has been shown a National Action video of the group's White Man March in Newcastle in March 2015.
It showed a man identified as defendant Matthew Hankinson telling a crowd they must fight for a "future for white children".
"We must be ruthless," he continued. "If we don’t fight and we don’t cut out the cancer…Britain will die."
Mr Hankinson called on people to split the UK into two groups and nothing in between to secure the "survival of our race"
"We are racial national socialists, our nation is our blood," he said, as LGBT flags were burned in the crowd.
"We need the strongest of our race, we need ordinary people who in time will become extraordinary."
Mr Hankinson said supporters should "get our hands dirty"
amid shouts of “traitors” and “f*** the system”."Blood must be shed, the blood of traitors, the blood of our enemies," he said.
"Stand up white men and set our people free, we must secure a future for our people and a future for white children."
11:18
The prosecution is going through National Action documents and propaganda outlining its vision and aims.
Members called for "white jihad" and to "cleanse Britain of parasites"
One document said recruitment was successful because members were "fashionable and good to look at…good-looking and well-dressed"
Another added: "We are willing to pay any price, our organisation depends on people who are willing to make that kind of commitment"
11:07
The court is being shown National Action propaganda videos. The first is of a rock song calling on white men to "stand up and fight back".
The second shows members dropping banners on bridges over the A28 in central Birmingham in what it hailed as the group's "first independent action" in November 2013.
One banner read: "Anti racist is a code word for anti white" and another displayed National Action's website address.
The jury is being told of other stunts by the group, including against halal in Coventry and where members put a banana in the hand of Nelson Mandela's statue in Parliament Square.
11:02
Mr Fletcher says National Action's activism initially targted British journalists, where activists wanted to show students "a strength of force against the left at university, that then moved towards flash demonstrations and demonstrations in towns and cities to spread the word".
It was a dominantly male movement and described itself as "masculine and aggressive", but started to admit women and girls in 2016
10:57
The court hears that National Action's estimated membership was 60+ activists in 2014 but it increased over the next two years and recruitment continued after it was prosribed a a terrorist group.
10:53
The prosecution is quoting from National Action propaganda saying: "It is time to fan the flames and fire the blood. Inspiration is everything."
The group repeatedly used the phrase "hail victory" online and at protests.
"Part of white supremacy is preparing for a race war in their eyes, in their ideology," Mr Fletcher says.
10:51
A counter-terror police officer, Matthew Fletcher, is giving evidence about the history about National Action.
He says before it was banned by the government in December 2016, it described itself as a "youth movement" and sought to gain members online and at rallies.
The jury are being shown pages of its former website, including ones listing regional branches across the UK.
09:33
Good morning and welcome to our live coverage from the trial of six alleged members of the banned terrorist group National Action. Jack Renshaw, 23, has already admitted planning to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper. But he and his co-defendants deny they were members of National Action at the time, seven months after it was proscribed by the government.
'Neo-Nazi' admits terror plot to murder Labour MP with a machete
Jack Renshaw, 23, is on trial with five other alleged members of the banned terrorist group National ActionProsecutors previously told the Old Bailey the group became the north-west faction of National Action after it was banned for its antisemitic, homophobic and violent ideology in December 2016.
The Old Bailey heard they underwent combat training at their gym in Warrington and at woodland camps.
As the proscription approached, Mr Lythgoe allegedly wrote members an encrypted email saying they were merely "shedding one skin for another".
The trial continues.
