A Nazi-obsessed far-right terrorist who stabbed an asylum seeker has been found guilty of attempted murder.
Callum Parslow, 31, stabbed an asylum seeker at a Worcestershire hotel in a "protest" against small boat crossings.
Parslow stabbed 25-year-old Nahom Hagos in the lobby area of the Pear Tree Inn and Country Hotel in Hindlip, Worcestershire, on April 2. Jurors deliberated for four hours and 18 minutes before finding Parslow guilty of attempted murder.
The trial was told Parslow ran off towards a canal after the stabbing, where he was spotted with what appeared to be blood on his hands.
Neo-nazi Callum Parslow, 31, has been found guilty
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Screengrab from CCTV footage issued by West Midlands Police of the moment just before Callum Ulysses Parslow attacked an asylum seeker
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Callum Parslow’s trial was told the 32-year-old tried to publish a "terrorist manifesto" on his social media account in the moments before his arrest, in which he claimed that he "just did my duty to England" by "exterminating" his victim.
Details of the trial could not be reported until a court order was lifted when Parslow, who has Adolf Hitler’s signature tattooed on his left forearm, pleaded guilty to unconnected charges, including a sexual offence.
The three-week hearing at Leicester Crown Court was told how the white supremacist stabbed Hagos in the chest and hand at the Pear Tree Inn, after buying a $1,000 (£770) "specialist" knife online.
During the trial, Parslow, who admitted wounding, said he had made the four-and-a-half-mile journey to the hotel on April 2 to stab "one of the Channel migrants" because he was "angry and frustrated".
Parslow gave evidence to his trial amid tight security, claiming his tattoo of Adolf Hitler’s signature was an attempt to annoy communists and his Nazi armband was part of a fancy dress outfit.
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Hagos, originally from Eritrea in East Africa, was eating a meal in a conservatory when he was attacked, and said of his survival: "I still look at it as a miracle. God saved me."
The trial was told Parslow ran off towards a canal after the stabbing, where he was spotted with what appeared to be blood on his hands.
The court heard that as police closed in, Parslow attempted to tweet the manifesto document, tagging politicians and news outlets, but the message failed to send because he had copied in too many recipients.
Prosecutor Tom Storey KC said a police search of Parslow’s flat in Bromyard Terrace, Worcester, led to the recovery of a second knife in a sheath, an axe, a metal baseball bat, a red armband bearing a swastika, a Nazi-era medallion and copies of Mein Kampf.
The bedsit of Callum Ulysses Parslow in Worcester
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A knife belonging to Callum Ulysses Parslow
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Describing the manifesto which Parslow intended to publicise immediately after the stabbing, Storey said it began "I just did my duty to England" and went on to say "I am but a gardener tending to the great garden of England."
Storey said: “That duty was, in his own mind, the killing of an asylum seeker, someone who, for whatever reasons, had fled his home country and who was hoping to make a life for himself here. The motivation for his attack is said by him to have been a desire to be arrested because he was being evicted from his flat after having lost his employment."
Police decided after the stabbing that it gave rise to the suspicion that it was an act of terrorism and Parslow was interviewed by officers but answered no comment to questions asked of him.
Parslow, who stored Nazi memorabilia and weapons at his bedsit in Bromyard Terrace, Worcester, was remanded in custody and will be sentenced by Justice Dove at Woolwich Crown Court on January 17.
