Neo-Nazi with Hitler tattoo jailed for life for trying to murder asylum seeker

A Neo-Nazi who penned his own ‘terrorist manifesto’ before going to a hotel and trying to stab an asylum seeker to death has been jailed for life.

Callum Parslow, 32, claimed he made the four-and-a-half-mile journey on April 2 to knife ‘one of the Channel migrants’ because he was ‘angry and frustrated’ at small boat crossings.

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 judge, Mr Justice Dove, told ordered Parslow – who has a tattoo of Adolf Hitler’s signature – he must serve a minimum term of 22 years and eight months.

Parslow’s trial heard he tried to tweet the manifesto document, tagging in Tommy Robinson and prominent politicians including Sir Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman, but the message failed to send because he had copied in too many recipients.

In it, he 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.

Callum Ulysses Parslow has been jailed for life for attempted murder (Picture: West Midlands Police/PA Wire)

Nazi memorabillia seized from his bedsit in Worcester (Picture: West Midlands Police/PA Wire)

The tattoo of Adolf Hitler’s signature on his left forearm (Picture: West Midlands Police/PA Wire)

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.

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.

A knife belonging to the Nazi fanatic (Picture: West Midlands Police/PA Wire)

‘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.’

Mr Hagos was eating a meal in a conservatory when he was attacked and 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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