A Nazi sympathiser who built a submachine gun in his garage after becoming obsessed with the New Zealand mosque killer has been jailed for seven years. Ben Styles, 25, made the lethal makeshift firearm at his home and kept terrorism manuals in "preparation for a religious war".
A court heard he also dubbed the Holocaust the Holohoax in an online group called '#Kill All the Jews' adding: “I hope the holocaust is real next time.” Styles, who has a B-tec in Engineering, was arrested when police raided his house in leafy Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, on April 2021.
Officers recovered parts of a homemade gun, gunmaking tools, manuals on how to convert blank bullets into live ammunition and a Nazi fitness manual. He admitted making weapons and ammunition and collecting terrorism material at Birmingham Crown Court and was jailed on Friday.
