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Essex neo‑Nazi Alfie Coleman jailed for planning mass gun attack

newsJul 8, 202617247

Alfie Coleman, 22, was jailed at the Old Bailey for 13 and a half years with a further five years on extended licence after a retrial found him guilty of preparing terrorist acts. MI5 undercover officers engaged Coleman in encrypted chat and arrested him on September 29, 2023 in a Stratford, east London, Morrisons car park after he collected a Makarov pistol, five magazines and 200 rounds of ammunition; jurors saw video of him handing over £3,500 and taking a holdall from a Land Rover Discovery before armed counter-terrorism police detained him. Prosecutors told the court Coleman, from Great Notley in Essex and a former part-time Tesco worker, had been radicalised from about age 14, compiled a hate list of colleagues and customers, wrote a manifesto identifying targets including the Lord Mayor of London and a mosque, and possessed 10 documents likely to be useful to terrorists. Police who searched the home he shared with his parents and sibling found extreme right-wing books, a Black Sun flag, a rock marked with a swastika, idolisation of Thomas Mair, savings of £2,500 and a device to detect bugs and secret cameras. Coleman admitted attempting to possess a firearm and ammunition and pleaded guilty to possessing the documents but denied he was preparing a terrorist attack; Judge Richard Marks KC described him as a dangerous offender and called his views virulently racist.

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