Self-described ‘racist monster’ Thomas Webster jailed after BBC investigation
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Self-described ‘genocidal racist monster’ jailed after BBC investigation
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Figure caption: Thomas Webster was investigated by police after comments he made to an undercover journalist in a BBC programme.
By Wyre Davies,
BBC Wales Investigates,
Reporting from at Warwick Crown Court
and Paul Heaney & Ben Summer
Published 7 September 2026, 16:16 BST
Updated 1 hour ago
Warning: This article contains graphic accounts of racist and violent language
A former tax worker who described himself as "the ultimate genocidal racist monster" has been jailed for inciting hatred online after he was exposed by a BBC investigation.
Thomas Webster, 29, from Lapworth, Warwickshire,
admitted 10 counts of stirring up racial hatred online, including ones calling for the killing and extinction of his racial "enemies".
Webster also admitted to stirring up religious hatred and another count of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation. He was sentenced to two years at Warwick Crown Court.
In his online posts, Webster said he wanted Jewish and gay people to be tortured and executed.
He also stated that he desired to kill all Muslims until they were "globally extinct."
In one instance, he wrote: "If a migrant hotel was placed on my road I would ‘prepare for murder and prison time, I am serious.’"
Webster was a member of the far-right group Patriotic Alternative when
BBC Wales Investigates’ undercover reporter
secretly recorded him at two of the group’s events in 2024. He was filmed expressing views such as:
- "In my job at HMRC I like to ‘deliberately’ give non-white people ‘bad information which sounds interesting, like I’m deliberately trying to sabotage them.’"
- "A world where white becomes the default human race… all other races will be extinct."
- "I would have crushed [the] skulls" of a group of non-white men if they had walked near to him.
Following the BBC programme, police opened an investigation and linked Webster to several social media accounts, mainly on X. He was arrested for inciting racial hatred in September 2025 and police used details on his phone and computer.
HMRC stated: "We take breaches of our standards extremely seriously and have robust processes in place to investigate concerns."
"Following an internal disciplinary process, the individual concerned was dismissed from HMRC and ceased to be employed by the department in February 2025."
