A HALESOWEN man described as a follower of the Neo-Nazi movement and a white supremacist has been locked up for five years after he was caught with an illegal stun gun and pepper spray.

When officers from the anti-terrorist squad raided the home of Craig Totney they found Nazi emblems, pictures of Adolf Hitler and National Front literature.

They also recovered a swastika shaped guitar, other right wing images, Nazi flags and photographs of the Ku Klux Klan, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.

Totney also had a cache of weapons including a Samurai sword, three knuckledusters, a baton, a stab vest and a number of powerful fireworks but they were not the subject of charges.

The 40-year-old who worked in management at the NEC in Birmingham also followed a right wing heavy metal group called Blood and Honour and he travelled all over Europe.

Sophie Murray, prosecuting, said Totney was stopped at Birmingham Airport by police officers alerted by his interest in the Neo-Nazi movement and his mobile was examined.

The officers found communications with various people about items he intended bringing into the country and the raid on his home in Bournbrook Crescent followed.

Totney who also bought goods on the internet admitted possessing the stun gun, the pepper spray and transferring a stun gun to 33-year-old Ruth Hollingsworth.

She pleaded guilty to possessing the stun gun and she was given a two year jail term suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 150 hours unpaid work in the community.

Judge Nicholas Webb told Hollingsworth, who held entirely different political views to Totney, it was accepted by the prosecution that she had not sought out the stun gun.

He said she had been persuaded by Totney to have the weapon and it had remained in its box unopened when police raided her home in Cedar Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham.

But the judge stressed evidence clearly showed Totney knew possessing a stun gun was prohibited and that the weapons were capable of causing serious injury.

The judge said Totney had sent out messages about his access to stun guns while the other weapons found at his home were also capable of causing great harm.

But there was no evidence, he went on, to suggest "they had been so used" or that they had been carried in public by Totney.

When Totney's mobile was checked - the court heard he had tested a stun gun on himself to show how it worked - it revealed a number of messages to Hollingsworth who, like him, was a person of good character.