Neo-Nazi with Hitler tattoo wrote ‘manifesto’ before stabbing asylum seeker

A Neo-Nazi wrote his own ‘terrorist manifesto’ before stabbing an asylum seeker in the chest at a hotel.

Callum Parslow, 32, who also had Adolf Hitler’s signature tattooed on his forearm, tried to send a post to X claiming he ‘just did my duty to England’ by trying to ‘exterminate’ his target.

He was found guilty of attempted murder at Leicester Crown Court for attacking Nahom Hagos at the Pear Tree Inn at Hindlip, Worcestershire, with a ‘specialist’ blade he bought for £770 online.

The white supremacist tried to claim he made the four-and-a-half-mile journey on April 2 to stab ‘one of the Channel migrants’ because he was ‘angry and frustrated’ at small boat crossings.

The court heard that as police closed in, Parslow attempted to tweet his manifesto document.

But it failed to send because he tagged too many people in it.

They included Tommy Robinson and prominent politicians including Sir Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman.

In the document Parslow railed against what he termed the ‘evil enemies of nature and of England’ who he identified as ‘the Jews, the Marxists and the Globalists’ he said were responsible for demonising Christianity, white people and European culture.

Prosecutor Tom Storey KC said it was clear the manifesto was intended for publication online as it ended with a list of X handles or tags, which also featured those of Ukip and news outlets including the BBC and GB News.

Laurence Fox, Nick Griffin, Donald Trump, Lee Anderson, Liz Truss, Michael Gove, Lord David Cameron, Richard Tice and Boris Johnson also featured in the list of those who Parslow tried to tag in, the court heard.

Mr Storey 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.

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.

The jury was told CCTV footage from The Pear Tree Inn showed the defendant’s arrival at the hotel and his attack upon Mr Hagos, who is originally from East Africa.

Blood which contained a DNA profile matching that of 25-year-old Mr Hagos was found on the blade of the knife abandoned by Parslow, whose email address included the phrase ‘lordadolfreborn’.

Details of the trial could not be reported until a court order was lifted on Friday after Parslow pleaded guilty to an unconnected sexual offence and two charges under the Malicious Communications Act.

Parslow was remanded in custody and will be sentenced by Mr Justice Dove at Woolwich Crown Court on a date to be fixed.

Jurors were told the manifesto found on the former supermarket worker’s mobile phone also stated: ‘They will call me a terrorist, they will call me an extremist: I am neither.

‘Become the White man they say you are. Become Albion’s vengeance. Become Britannia’s wrath.’

Some of his tweets also advocated the use of extreme violence against immigrants entering Britain, with one stating: ‘Open the door with a knife in your hand and shout at them. If they attack you it’s fair game.’

Jurors were told Parslow had Hitler’s signature tattooed on his arm ‘in order to demonstrate his affiliation to the ideals of the leader of the German Nazi party’.

Explaining the circumstances of the attempted murder to the jury, Mr Storey said: ‘Mr Hagos (after being asked by Parslow where he was from) told him he was from Eritrea.

‘The defendant then produced a knife with which he proceeded to stab and lash out at him, inflicting wounds to his chest and the back of his hand.

‘The defendant’s actions that day were carefully planned, and were driven by a particular ideology, specifically an extreme right-wing ideology, which had led him to identify and target his victim on the basis of his ethnicity.’

After his arrival at hospital, Mr Hagos was found to have an 8cm-long wound to his left chest, which had not penetrated any of his vital organs.

Mr Hagos, who was eating a meal in a conservatory when he was attacked, said of his survival: ‘I still look at it as a miracle. God saved me.’

Parslow showed no reaction as he was found guilty of attempted murder, and pleaded guilty minutes later to offences committed in July and August last year, including one of intentional exposure of his genitals in a video he sent from a Facebook account.

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