A British police officer was convicted on Friday of belonging to a neo-Nazi group and was jailed for more than four years. Ben Hannam, 22, was found guilty of being a member of the National Action (NA), a banned right-wing extremist group, from 2016 to 2017. Hannam, who pleaded guilty to possessing an indecent image of a child, was also convicted of lying on his application and vetting forms to join the Metropolitan Police and having two terror documents detailing knife combat and making explosive devices. “Hannam joined and engaged with a right-wing terrorism organisation, whose views are the antithesis of police values. He then lied about his past links to this group when applying to become a police officer,” said Commander Richard Smith, head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command, which led the investigation into the case. According to the Metropolitan Police, Hannam came to the attention of …