A Nazi-obsessed white supremacist who stabbed an asylum seeker in a terror attack has been jailed for attempted murder.
Callum Ulysses Parslow, 32, attacked the man in April last year at the Pear Tree Inn near Worcester in what he claimed was a “protest” against small boat crossings.
Parslow, who has Hitler’s signature tattooed on his arm, said he stabbed the asylum seeker in the chest and hand because he wanted to hurt “one of the Channel migrants”.
Sentencing Parslow on Friday, Mr Justice Dove said he posed a “high risk of serious harm” to the public. Parslow was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 22 years and eight months.
Mr Justice Dove said Parslow had carried out a “preplanned terrorist attack”, which was “intended to intimidate” asylum seekers and those giving them support.
Parslow tried to send a post to X before his arrest, claiming that he “just did my duty to England” by trying to “exterminate” his victim, Leicester Crown Court heard. He had tried to tag prominent politicians, including Sir Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, Nigel Farage and Suella Braveman, in the social media post but it failed to send because he had copied in too many people.
Callum Parslow was found guilty of attempting to murder an asylum seeker ((West Midlands CTU/PA))
Nahom Hagos, the asylum seeker who was attacked, is an Eritrean national who had been granted leave to remain in the UK until November 2028. He had previously lived in the hotel and, on the day of the stabbing, had been back to visit a friend.
Parslow first asked him where he was from before going on to stab him with a “specialist” knife, which he had bought online for £770.
Handout screengrab from CCTV footage issued by West Midlands Police dated 2/4/2024 of the moment just before Callum Ulysses Parslow attacked an asylum seeker. (West Midlands Police/PA Wire)
Mr Hagos required extensive medical treatment in hospital but has made a full recovery, police said.
A police photo of Callum Parslow’s bedsit ((West Midlands CTU/PA))
In a manifesto that Parslow had tried to post online after the attack, he railed against the “evil enemies of nature and of England”, who he said had demonised Christianity, white people and European culture.
The tattoo of Adolf Hitler’s signature on Parslow’s left forearm (West Midlands Police/PA Wire)
In a police search of Parslow’s flat in Worcester, officers found a second knife, an axe, a metal baseball bat, a red armband bearing a swastika, and copies of Mein Kampf.
During his trial, Parslow told the court that he “wanted to go to prison”. He said that he was angry at his impending eviction from his bedsit, saying: “The reason I chose to do it to one of the Channel migrants was that I was angry and frustrated.”
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