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British white supremacist found guilty of plotting gun attack after MI5 undercover sting

The Independent·Emily Pennink·about 1 month ago
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A young neo-Nazi has been found guilty of planning a mass gun attack after being snared by MI5 in an undercover sting. Alfie Coleman, 21, from Great Notley in Essex, was convicted of preparing for terrorist acts on Thursday after an Old Bailey retrial. From the age of just 14, Coleman began to trawl the internet for extreme right wing material including a neo-Nazi text which he downloaded on his iPad. Coleman paid £3,500 for ⁠a pistol and around 200 rounds of ammunition before being arrested by police in September 2023. The 21-year-old venerated Nazi dictator Hitler and Thomas Mair, a loner obsessed with the Nazis who murdered lawmaker Jo Cox ⁠in a frenzied street attack ​in ⁠2016, prosecutors said. Manifestos written by Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black people at a South Carolina church ⁠in 2015, and Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 Muslim worshippers ​at ⁠mosques in Christchurch, were found ‌on Coleman's devices when he was arrested.…

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