He admitted posting three videos on YouTube from a March music concert, organised by an extreme right-wing group in West Wales
Shocking: Still from the YouTube video
A racist who posted footage of a man in a Ku Klux Klan costume lynching a life-size golly is facing jail.
Hate-filled Christopher Philips, 23, uploaded three clips of the shocking mock execution on Youtube.
But, a court heard, the kick-boxing tutor was arrested at his home by counter-terror officers two weeks after the shameful footage was posted online.
It was filmed in March at a right wing extremists’ music concert in West Wales, attended by dozens of racists.
Philips, 23, of Wolverhampton, called himself “Clansman of the West Midlands infidels” on Twitter .
His dad took his own life shortly after his son was arrested and quizzed – and Philips received death threats.
His lawyer Mohammed Ramzan told the court: “His life was threatened. People attended the gym where he coaches.
“Fortunately for him he was ill that day, so not there. It was a gathering of quite a few people with weapons.”
Philips pleaded guilty to distributing a recording of visual images that were intended to stir up racial hatred at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
He will be sentenced next month but Judge John Warner today warned him: “The overwhelming likelihood is that you will receive a period in custody.”
He described the videos as “the sort of material that will attract very strong feelings in certain sections of the community.”
Court appearance: Christopher Philips salutes to photographers
Philips, who was wearing a grey suit, white shirt and striped tie, was released on bail and banned from social media websites ahead of his sentencing.
After the hearing he left court quietly with members of his family and friends.
But last week, while leaving the same court, he appeared to give photographers a “white power” clenched fist gesture.
West Midlands Police suspected Philips was the man wearing the offensive outfit and hanging the racist doll.
Last night a police spokesman said Philips had never contested that he was the man in the video.
But, as he was at a private event, they were unable to prosecute him in connection with dressing up in the costume.
The Ku Klux Klan was founded by Confederate veterans in 1865 to resist reconstruction in the South following the American Civil War.
After it became violent, it was destroyed by President Ulysses Grant in the early 1870s, only to rise again in 1915.
A third incarnation of the KKK emerged after the Second World War in opposition to the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation.
The hood-wearing KKK members carried out hundreds of violent attacks, lynchings and murders during the 50s and 60s aimed at terrifying the black community.
Today, the Klan is thought of as a “subversive or terrorist organisation” that spends its time spreading racist propaganda and pushing anti-immigration.
It is believed there are around 150 Klan chapters with upwards of 3,000 members across the US.
The number operating secretly in Europe and elsewhere is unknown.
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