Callum Parslow from Hereford convicted of attempted murder

Callum Ulysses Parslow’s trial was told the 32-year-old, who has Adolf Hitler’s signature tattooed on his left forearm, tried to send a post to X before his arrest claiming he “just did my duty to England” by trying to “exterminate” his victim.

Parslow is originally from Hereford but was living in Worcester at the time of the offence.

The three-week hearing at Leicester Crown Court heard how the white supremacist stabbed Nahom Hagos in the chest and hand at the Pear Tree Inn at Hindlip, Worcestershire, after buying a “specialist” 1,000 US dollars (£770) knife online.

Undated handout photo issued by West Midlands Police of a knife belonging to Callum Ulysses Parslow. (Image: West Midlands Police/PA Wire) Parslow, who denied attempted murder but admitted wounding, told jurors he made a four-and-a-half-mile journey to the rural hotel on April 2 to stab “one of the Channel migrants” because he was “angry and frustrated” at small boat crossings.

Jurors deliberated for four hours and 18 minutes before finding Parslow guilty of attempted murder.

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.

Parslow's room in Worcester (Image: West Midlands Police/PA Wire) 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.

During the Crown’s opening speech, 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.

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

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.”

"Over the weeks leading up to this event, the defendant had planned what he was going to do, researching hotels which were being used to house asylum seekers on behalf of the government.”

He had also researched “the worst places to get stabbed” and whether neck wounds were always fatal, the jury heard.

(Image: West Midlands Police/PA Wire) Describing the manifesto which Parslow intended to publicise immediately after the stabbing, Mr Storey said it began “I just did my duty to England” and went on to say “I am but a gardener tending to the great garden of England.”

Mr Storey said: “That duty was – in his own mind – the killing of an asylum seeker – someone who, for whatever reasons, had fled his home country and who was hoping to make a life for himself here.

“The motivation for his attack is said by him to have been a desire to be arrested because he was being evicted from his flat after having lost his employment.”

The CCTV of the stabbing and its aftermath showed Mr Hagos, obviously bleeding and in distress, fleeing onto a car park and being chased by Parslow.

Mr Hagos was able to run back into the main reception area, where the hotel manager locked the front door, preventing Parslow from re-entering the building, although he later re-entered through another door apparently searching for further victims.

Parslow's tattoo (Image: West Midlands Police/PA Wire) Parslow claimed the Nazi armband found at his bedsit was part of a fancy dress uniform, while his Hitler tattoo was an attempt to annoy communist sympathisers.

He 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.