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A man has appeared in court charged with posting messages online to stir up racial hatred, including calls to kill Muslims and remove them from the West.

Jonathan Jennings, of Heol y Gelynen, Brynaman, faces 10 charges including threats against Muslims, Jews and members of the Labour Party, including its leader Jeremy Corbyn.

No plea was entered when he appeared at Llanelli Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.

Between March and August last year, Jennings is alleged to have used the hashtag #gasallmuslims, called for the extermination of Muslims and stated ‘Hitler was born 100 years too soon’.

One charge alleges that Jennings, 34, posted on GAB, which describes itself as the free speech social network, that “should Jeremy #Corbyn be able to form a government in the near future, I’ll be the first in line to #JoCox him and his associates” - the threat alluding to MP Jo Cox who was murdered in 2016.

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Prosecutor Tom Scapens, for the Counter Terrorism Unit, referred to another of the charges against Jennings, that, “On March 13, 2017, he posted on GAB, a social media site: ‘Until such a time (that) we are able to physically remove them from the West, Muslims should be forcibly sterilised and banned from preaching their evil creed.”

Jennings is also alleged to have posted on GAB on March 22 last year ‘if you see a Muslim, kill them #manchester’.

Another charge relates to a post Jennings is alleged to have made between May 23 and May 25 last year, when he is again claimed to have posted on GAB responding to an article in The Indpendent about a jailed racist who had kicked a pregnant Muslim woman to the stomach causing her to lose her baby, hailing the racist attacker as a ‘national hero’ and using the hashtag #brtifam.

He is also charged with posting on GAB warning Jews to behave themselves.

And he is alleged to have posted that ‘every single Muslim in Britain should be hunted down and killed’, and that he believed ‘bomb a mosque day and putting Muslims on top of bonfires was a great idea’.

No representation was made by Jennings’ defence solicitor Sarah Griffiths and the district judge Shooman Khan said the case was too serious to deal with at the magistrates’ court and sent it to Swansea Crown Court.

Jennings faces six charges of publishing threatening written material to stir up religious hatred, a further three of sending an electronic communication conveying a threatening message, and one of sending an electronic communication of an offensive nature.

He was granted conditional bail and told to appear at Swansea Crown Court on May 18.

His bail conditions include making no posts on social media sites, particularly Twitter, YouTube or GAB, along with not reposting any posts by others or to create any new social media profiles.