Two white-supremacist podcasters just hit a shockingly new low, and they’re about to pay for it, according to disturbing new reporting from the British newspaper The Sun.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle are no strangers to scandal, hatred, and racially-fueled attacks. However, 38-year-old Christopher Gibbons and his fellow podcast host, 34-year-old Tyrone Patten-Walsh, hit a sickening new low against the couple and their children, when prosecutors claimed to a British court that the white supremacist pair made horrifying, open threats against Meghan, Prince Harry, and their two children during an episode of their podcast, Black Wolf Radio, under the guise of free speech — ultimately going so far as to demand that Harry be “judicially killed for treason” over his marriage to Markle, and calling their 3-year-old son Archie “an abomination that should be put down.”
The podcasting pair has openly denied encouraging acts of extreme right-wing terrorism, yet allegedly used a series of 23 podcast episodes to heap their praises on the 2019 New Zealand mass shooting that left 51 people dead at two mosques during Friday prayers. When speaking on the topic of the 2017 Manchester Arena suicide bomb attack that claimed the lives of 22 innocent people who were attending an Ariana Grande concert, Gibbons and Patten-Walsh referred to the victims as “sluts.”
“They start screaming and that’s the bit that really pleases me because I hate those people,” Patten-Walsh said of the deadly bombing.
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Speaking to Kingston Crown Court, prosecutor Anne Whyte QC said, “hey thought that if they used the format of a radio show, as good as in plain sight, they could pass off their venture as the legitimate exercise of their freedom of speech. In fact, what they were doing was using language designed to encourage others to commit acts of extreme right-wing terrorism against the sections of society that these defendants hated.”
Both Meghan and Harry have tried to use their public platform and voice to speak out and spread awareness of the racism and hatred they’re regularly subjected to.
Earlier this year, Prince Harry said that it was “not safe” for him and his family to return to England without proper police protection, leading to a lawsuit against the British government for the modifications that were made to his and his family’s security detail following their resignation from the royal family.
Meghan has personally spoken out on the vitriol she’s received online, calling the incessant bullying “almost unsurvivable” in an interview she gave on the Teenager Therapy podcast in 2020. The former Suits actor also gave a now-infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey, detailing the racism she was subjected to at the hands of the royal family, including “concerns” over the potential color of her then-unborn child’s skin.
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