A NEONAZI terror suspect who entered a Miss Hitler contest was obsessed with “ethnic cleansing” and talked about using a Jew’s severed head as a football, a court heard today.

On the second day of the trial at Birmingham Crown Court, Alice Cutter denied having been a member of National Action, a group that was outlawed as a terrorist organisation in December 2016.

The 22-year-old is standing trial alongside her partner, Mark Jones, who is accused of being a “leader and strategist” for the group.

The pair, from Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax in West Yorkshire, deny being members of National Action between December 2016 and September 2017.

It is also alleged that Garry Jack, 23, from Birmingham, and Connor Scothern, 18, from Nottingham, are guilty of belonging to the proscribed organisation between the same dates.

Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson QC told the jury that Ms Cutter “was a central spoke in the National Action wheel” and had been photographed giving the nazi salute on the steps of Leeds Town Hall in May 2016.

He told the jury panel: “As you will see, Alice Cutter shared Jones’s obsession with knives, guns and the ideology of violent ethnic cleansing.

“Cutter’s violent racist mindset leeches right through the National Action chat groups.

“This was not simply Alice Cutter playing to the gallery.”

The court heard that Mr Scothern was photographed giving the nazi salute with other National Action members in Dudley, West Midlands, in October 2016, and at the cemetery in Nottingham the following month.

He was well aware of the implications of National Action being banned, Mr Jameson said, telling jurors: “You will hear that, during the banned phase of National Action, Scothern was effectively an activist’s activist.”

The trial continues.