British white supremacist found guilty of plotting gun attack after MI5 sting
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Alfie Coleman, a 21-year-old British neo-Nazi from Essex, has been found guilty of preparing for a terrorist attack after an MI5 undercover operation. He had planned a mass shooting, targeting a mosque and public figures, and had purchased a firearm and ammunition through a sting operation. Coleman had been radicalized online since the age of 14 and was influenced by far-right extremists and past terrorist manifestos.
- ▪Alfie Coleman was convicted at the Old Bailey of preparing terrorist acts following a retrial.
- ▪He paid £3,500 for a Makarov pistol and 200 rounds of ammunition in a sting operation conducted by MI5 in a Morrisons car park in east London.
- ▪Coleman had compiled a hate list of colleagues and customers and wrote a manifesto identifying potential targets including the Lord Mayor of London and a mosque.
- ▪Devices seized from Coleman contained extremist material, including manifestos by Dylann Roof and Brenton Tarrant.
- ▪MI5 began monitoring Coleman in 2023 after he became active in online extreme right-wing groups and sought to buy weapons abroad.
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