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A lout who dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan outfit and pretended to hang a life-size golly doll has been jailed over racist rants on Facebook.

Darren Fletcher was locked up for eight months for breaking an order banning him from making race-hate remarks online.

He previously served a year in prison for stirring up racial hatred by posting the KKK video on YouTube.

But the 25-year-old flouted the terms of his criminal anti-social behaviour on his release by launching more racist tirades.

He even posted that a newspaper needed “bombing” for its coverage of his original court case.

Fletcher was sent back to prison for eight months at Wolverhampton Crown Court today.

The forklift truck driver, who has Asperger’s syndrome, had earlier admitted breaching the terms of the CRASBO at the city’s magistrates court.

The sentence was welcomed by Det Chief Supt Sue Southern, head of the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.

She said: “Fletcher blatantly flouted the conditions the court imposed on him by posting racist and anti-Semitic comments.

“We understand how offensive and distressing this type of behaviour can be and worked to bring him before the courts for a second time.

“West Midlands Police takes all forms of extremism seriously and we urge anyone with any concerns to contact us on 101.”

Fletcher, of Kitchen Lane, Wednesfield, is also known as Christopher Phillips and Darren Clifft.

He set up a Facebook page using the name The Whitest Knight and used it to express sympathy with a fellow far right supporter who was posting anti-semitic tweets about a Jewish MP.

Comments on the page included accusing the British Government of doing more to help Jewish and black people than “its native whites”.

Fletcher also declared that he “hated Britain with a passion” and made threats against Jews and black people.

Nicholas Towers, defending, urged Judge John Warner to pass a non-custodial sentence.

He said the postings breaching the order had been intended for an audience sympathetic to convicted extremist Garron Helm.

“This wasn’t someone on the streets shouting abuse,” Mr Towers added.

“It was supposed to be for a relatively limited audience.”

But the judge said Fletcher had “deliberately, defiantly and fragrantly disobeyed the order”.

He added that anything less than a custodial sentence would have been a “green light to carry on”.