A Toronto judge is being urged to imprison a Niagara region man for 20 years after he pleaded guilty Thursday to terrorism offences for producing recruitment videos for a neo-Nazi terrorist group and writing racist manifestos that inspired other terrorists around the world to commit attacks.

As his family sat nearby, Matthew Althorpe, 29, stood in the prisoner’s box and pleaded guilty to facilitating terrorist activity, instructing a person to carry out terrorist activity, and willfully promoting hatred against identifiable groups, as he admitted to making videos for the since-disbanded Atomwaffen Division, an international neo-Nazi group listed as a terrorist entity by a number of countries, including Canada in 2021.

His handiwork was displayed on multiple screens in the courtroom: dist

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