‘Fanatical’ neo-Nazi known as ‘Charlie Big Potatoes’ was training white nationalists for a race war

Kristofer Kearney told followers he wanted to recruit ‘people who are willing to die for this cause’, Lizzie Dearden writes

Kristofer Kearney, known as Charlie Big Potatoes, was jailed for four years and eight months (Metropolitan Police)

“I want a cult, I want fanatics, people who are willing to die for this cause,” Kristopher Kearney told his 1,600 followers in a voice message. “That's the level of commitment I want and expect, we want a hardcore group of people who know exactly what they want.”

What they wanted was to fight for a white Britain, and Kearney was the go-to man across UK fascist movements for physical training.

Better known online as Charlie Big Potatoes, or sometimes General Zod, the 38-year-old father was a member of the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action before it was banned by the government in 2016.