British white supremacist who venerated Hitler found guilty of plotting gun attack

By Reuters 30 April 2026, 2:35 pm

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A British white supremacist who prosecutors say idolized Adolf Hitler is convicted of preparing terrorism acts after trying to buy a gun and ammunition from undercover officers.

Alfie Coleman paid 3,500 pounds ($4,730) 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 say.

Prosecutor Nicholas de la Poer told jurors at London’s Old Bailey court that Coleman had written his own manifesto as a diary, in which he stated: “All people whom are not on our side must die.”