More and more young people are being drawn into the world of violent extremism, a senior police officer has warned after a young neo-Nazi caught in an undercover MI5 sting was convicted of planning a mass gun attack.
Alfie Coleman, a former supermarket worker from Great Notley in Essex, compiled a hate-list of colleagues and customers he branded with racial slurs or as “race traitors”. He wrote a “manifesto” in a diary and identified potential targets, including the “lord mayor of London” and a mosque.