Nazi-obsessed terrorist Callum Parslow guilty of attempted murder after stabbing asylum seeker
CCTV of the moment a right-wing extremist attacks an asylum seeker in a hotel in Worcestershire
A nazi-obsessed terrorist who stabbed an asylum seeker at a hotel in a “protest” against small boat crossings has been found guilty of attempted murder.
Callum Parslow’s trial was told the 32-year-old tried to publish a “terrorist manifesto” on his X account in the moments before his arrest, in which he claimed that he “just did my duty to England” by “exterminating” his victim.
The three-week hearing at Leicester Crown Court was told how the white supremacist stabbed 25-year-old Nahom Hagos in the chest and hand at the Pear Tree Inn at Hindlip, Worcestershire, after buying a 1,000 dollar (£770) “specialist” knife online.
Details of the trial could not be reported until a court order was lifted when Parslow, who has Adolf Hitler’s signature tattooed on his left forearm, pleaded guilty to unconnected charges, including a sexual offence.
Parslow, who admitted wounding, said he had made the four-and-a-half-mile journey to the hotel on April 2 to stab “one of the Channel migrants” because he was “angry and frustrated”.
The prosecutor told the court Mr Hagos was minding his own business, eating his lunch, and had given Parslow directions to the hotel’s toilets before he was attacked.
The hotel manager and a builder used a van to take Mr Hagos to hospital in Worcester, as they felt he was losing too much blood.
The trial was told Parslow ran off towards a canal after the stabbing, where he was spotted with what appeared to be blood on his hands.
Jurors deliberated for four hours and 18 minutes before finding Parslow guilty of attempted murder on Friday.
Police body camera footage captures the moment terrorist Callum Parslow was arrested near a canal
The court heard that as police closed in, Parslow attempted to tweet the manifesto document, tagging in Tommy Robinson and prominent politicians including Sir Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman, but the message failed to send because he had copied in too many recipients.
In the document, the jury heard, Parslow railed against what he termed the “evil enemies of nature and of England” who he identified as “the Jews, the Marxists and the Globalists” he said were responsible for demonising Christianity, white people and European culture.
Prosecutor Tom Storey KC told the trial it was clear the manifesto was intended for publication online as it ended with a list of X handles or tags, which also featured those of Ukip and news outlets including the BBC and GB News.
Laurence Fox, Nick Griffin, Donald Trump, Lee Anderson, Liz Truss, Michael Gove, Lord David Cameron, Richard Tice and Boris Johnson also featured in the list of those who Parslow tried to tag in, the court heard.
'Terrorist's actions were carefully planned and were driven by an extreme right-wing ideology'
At the time of the stabbing, the hotel was largely closed to the public due to renovation work, having previously contracted to house asylum seekers from November 2022 to February 2024.
Blood which contained a DNA profile matching that of Mr Hagos was found on the blade of the knife abandoned by Parslow, whose email address included the phrase “lordadolfreborn”.
Mr Hagos, originally from Eritrea in East Africa, was eating a meal in a conservatory when he was attacked, and said of his survival: “I still look at it as a miracle. God saved me.”
Mr Storey said of the attack: "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."
Jurors were told the manifesto found on the former supermarket worker’s mobile phone also stated: “They will call me a terrorist, they will call me an extremist: I am neither.
“Become the White man they say you are. Become Albion’s vengeance. Become Britannia’s wrath.”
Parslow was remanded in custody and will be sentenced by Mr Justice Dove at Woolwich Crown Court on a date to be fixed.
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