Charlottesville attacker sentenced to life in jail for mowing down 20 protesters at white supremacist rally in Virginia

A NAZI-obsessed white supremacist who ploughed his car into a group of protesters at a rally in Virginia killing one has been caged for life. James Alex Fields Jr rammed the car into terrified crowds in Charlottesville injuring 19 people and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. The 22-year-old  pleaded guilty in March to 29 of 30 […]

A NAZI-obsessed white supremacist who ploughed his car into a group of protesters at a rally in Virginia killing one has been caged for life.

James Alex Fields Jr rammed the car into terrified crowds in Charlottesville injuring 19 people and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

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Protesters are sent flying during the car attack which killed one person and left another 19 injured[/caption]

The 22-year-old  pleaded guilty in March to 29 of 30 federal hate crime charges and was today jailed for life but will not face the death penalty.

He will be sentenced next month after being convicted of murder.

Fields apologised for the attack in August 2017, saying: “I apologise for the hurt and loss I’ve caused.

“Every day I think about how things could have gone differently and how I regret my actions. I’m sorry.”

The horror unfolded in 2017 as hundreds of neo-Nazis, white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, for one of the largest white supremacist rallies in the US in decades.

The “Unite the Right” march was organised to protest against the taking down of a statue of General Robert E Lee, who had fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the American Civil War.

PROTEST RAMPAGE

Violent clashes erupted between counter-protesters when Fields mowed down agitators.

Horrifying footage shows the rampaging car knocking bodies into the air while accelerating through the placard-waving crowd as onlookers scream in terror.

After he was arrested, it emerged Fields was a self-described neo-Nazi from Ohio.

His social media accounts showed he expressed “support of the social and racial policies of Adolf Hitler and Nazi-era Germany, including the Holocaust”.

The court heard how Fields “was like a kid at Disney World” during a high school trip to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

He made the sick remark “this is where the magic happened” and said “it’s almost like you can still hear them screaming” when they saw the gas chambers.

Even while in prison after carrying out the brutal attack, Fields showed no remorse and slammed victim Heather’s mum – branding her “the enemy”.

He said in a phonecall: “She is a communist. An anti-white liberal”.

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32-year-old Heather Heyer died after a white supremacist drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville[/caption]

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Medics help the wounded after the terrifying car attack[/caption]

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The aftermath of the horrific crash which left several people lying crumpled on the floor[/caption]

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