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Norbert Gyurcsik – peddler of hate music

A Hungarian living in Hereford has been jailed for more than three years for distributing and possessing extreme right-wing music intended to incite racial hatred.

Norbert Gyurcsik, age 48, was sentenced yesterday at Worcester Crown Court to 40 months’ imprisonment for one count of distributing recordings and two counts of possessing recordings.

The terms will run concurrently. He had pleaded guilty to all three charges last month.

Extremist albums

Gyurcsik, a Hungarian national who has lived in the UK for more than twenty years, was arrested in May 2024 following a police investigation into his activities buying and selling extremist albums across this country and Europe.

When police raided his home and his place of work at a chicken processing plant, they uncovered more than 2,000 records, many containing lyrics that breached terrorism legislation and promoted racial hatred and antisemitism.

‘Hub of hate’

Judge Jonathan Lockhart described Guyurcsik as “an ardent racist” who had run a “hub of hate” with vile and racially derogatory material.

Gyurcsik was reported to have earned over £200,000 from his activities. Ordering a financial investigation, Judge Lockhart said: “This man was making vast sums of money from this material.”

Addressing Guyurcsik, he said: “It’s plain to this court that you intended by your actions to stir up racial hatred.”

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