A neo-Nazi who stashed a crossbow, machetes and knuckledusters at his home and talked about attacking an LGBTQ+ group has been jailed.
Alan Edward, 55, a former journalist who glorified Hitler, was arrested at his home in Redding, Falkirk, a town in Scotland, in September 2022.
Edward discussed over WhatsApp an attack against a Scottish LGBTQ+ group and said: ‘They have been pushing their luck for years, now they will pay in blood.’
‘We should get masked up and go do a few of them in at their little gay club,’ he added.
Police found weapons and equipment including a crossbow with telescopic sights, 14 knives – some with Nazi and SS insignia – machetes, a tomahawk, a Samurai sword, knuckledusters, a catapult, an extendable baton and a stun gun.
Edward had been found guilty of planning a series of terrorist crimes including intending to commit an act of terrorism as well as racism, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and statutory breach of the peace.
He was jailed today for 10 years.
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