Worcester white supremacist jailed for asylum seeker assault

A white supremacist who stabbed an asylum seeker at a resort in what a pass judgement on mentioned used to be “surely a terrorist assault” has been jailed for existence.

Callum Parslow, 32, stabbed Nahom Hagos within the chest and hand on the Pear Tree Inn at Smite close to Worcester.

At Woolwich Crown Courtroom, Parslow used to be given a minimal time period of twenty-two years and 8 months for tried homicide.

Sentencing Parslow, Mr Justice Dove mentioned his assault on Mr Hagos used to be motivated via his adoption of a “some distance appropriate neo-Nazi mindset, which fuelled your warped, violent and racist perspectives.”

All over his trial Parslow, of Bromyard Terrace, Worcester, instructed the jury he travelled to the resort to stab “one of the crucial Channel migrants” as a result of he used to be “offended and pissed off”.

He used to be convicted of tried homicide following a three-week trial at Leicester Crown Courtroom closing 12 months.

He additionally pleaded responsible to an unconnected sexual offence and two fees of sending digital communications with intent to purpose misery and nervousness.

The pass judgement on instructed him his sufferer suffered “devastating accidents” in “a vicious and unprovoked attack on an entire stranger”.

Mr Hagos is a 25-year-old Eritrean nationwide who has been granted depart to stay in the United Kingdom till November 2028.

He had prior to now been a resident on the resort, and had returned to borrow a bicycle when the assault came about.

Parslow stabbed Mr Hagos within the chest and hand with a “specialist” knife he had purchased on-line for £770, which the pass judgement on mentioned had an “particularly laborious and sharp blade”.

Mr Justice Dove mentioned a scientific psychologist had identified Mr Hagos as having melancholy and PTSD as a right away results of the assault.

In a sufferer have an effect on observation learn in court docket via the prosecution, he mentioned he endured to undergo “excruciating ache” in his hand and struggled to sleep.

“I have been residing and pursuing a contented existence earlier than the incident,” he mentioned. “That is now reminiscence.

“I believe lonely and do not really feel protected in the street. My existence has been grew to become the other way up.”

All over his trial a jury heard that Parslow, who has a tattoo of Adolf Hitler’s signature on his arm, attempted to put up a “manifesto” on X earlier than his arrest, which claimed he did his “accountability to England” via looking to “exterminate” his sufferer.

However the message did not ship.

Within the failed put up, Parslow railed towards what he referred to as the “evil enemies of nature and of England” who he recognized as “the Jews, the Marxists and the globalists” that he mentioned had been liable for demonising Christianity, white other folks and Eu tradition.

A police seek of Parslow’s flat discovered a 2d knife in a sheath, an awl, a steel baseball bat, a crimson armband bearing a swastika, a Nazi-era medallion and copies of Mein Kampf.

Parslow performed the assault whilst he used to be being investigated for malicious verbal exchange and publicity.

Between July and August 2023, Parslow used social media to ship “grossly offensive” messages “of a sexual and racist nature”, in addition to a sexually specific video, to a lady who used to be a distinguished TV journalist on the time.

The lady’s daughter used to be additionally focused within the messages.

The pass judgement on mentioned Parslow’s movements had been motivated via his “excessive right-wing mindset” and his “racist and misogynist perspective”.

He have been convicted of identical offences in 2018, when he used to be jailed for 30 months for seven counts of stalking inflicting worry of violence and 3 counts of sending indecent or offensive communications.

Parslow despatched messages to 13 other ladies from Fb accounts with false names which have been “sexually graphic and intensely violent”.