Neo-Nazi Alfie Coleman, 22, has been jailed for 13 and a half years at the Old Bailey for planning a mass gun attack after making a hate list of ‘race traitors’
A young neo-Nazi who was “seething with hatred” and planned an attack on a Tesco store has been jailed for 13 and a half years after he was snared by MI5 in an undercover sting.
Ex-Tesco employee Alfie Coleman, 22, was found guilty of preparing for terrorist acts after an Old Bailey retrial. Today, he was seen appearing to be in tears as he was jailed for 13 and a half years, with a further five years on extended licence.
Coleman’s trial heard he penned a “manifesto” in a diary and identified potential targets, including the Lord Mayor of London and a mosque.
The former part-time Tesco worker went on to compile a hate list of colleagues and customers he branded with racial slurs or as “race traitors”.
He was “seething with hatred” as he created a list of people at work who had “upset” him in September 2022, prosecutor Nicholas De La Poer KC had said.
Among those he singled out was a white female co-worker who was married to a man of mixed Indian and Seychellois heritage. Coleman said he was “captivated” by an extreme right-wing book which commemorated public hangings of “white race traitors”.
Previously, the court had heard how Coleman was aged 14 when he first began to trawl the internet for extreme right-wing material including a neo-Nazi text which he downloaded on his iPad.
Judge Richard Marks KC said Coleman must be treated as a “dangerous offender” as he sentenced him, describing the views the defendant had expressed as “virulently racist”.
He told Coleman: “(Giving evidence) You maintained that much of what you had said and the virulently racist views which you expressed were no more than intrusive thoughts and did not represent what you believed in real life.”
“It was in effect, although you did not use these words, hyperbole, bravado, fantasy, and you never had any intention to carry out an attack.”
The 22-year-old, who wore a white shirt and grey trousers in the dock, appeared tearful and wiped his eyes with a tissue as the judge made his remarks.
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