Mrs. Francoise Jordan, ex-wife of British Nazi party leader Colin Jordan, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment today after a jury in Old Bailey Court found her guilty of conspiring to set fire to a London synagogue that burned in 1965. After the judge pronounced sentence, the French-born Mrs. Jordan faced the jury, gave the Nazi salute and shouted “heil Hitler.”
The jury, which had been warned by Judge Cusack not to convict Mrs. Jordan “because you dislike her opinions,” was unable to reach a verdict on another charge of conspiring to set fire to a synagogue at Stanmore, Middlesex. On the instructions of the judge, Mrs. Jordan was acquitted of a third charge of inciting members of the British Nazi party to burn synagogues.
During the trial Mrs. Jordan declared that Hitler was her “eternal leader” and that she despised the “Jewish race” because they are “evil.”
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