CCTV from inside the shop showed the 27-year-old turning and ducking at the last minute as she swung an axe at his neck.<\/p>\n
The teenager then tried to strike Mr Mahmoodi again, before he managed to disarm her, escaping with only painful scratches to his neck and cheek.<\/p>\n
She was then detained by police officers who had been on patrol nearby. They found a scalpel and several darts on her.<\/p>\n
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Burns nodded when the arresting officer asked her if she had swung the axe at the man. When he asked her why, she said: “I wanted to cut his neck.”<\/p>\n
Police later discovered an email she had written to an associate, saying: “Kill all Jews and Muslims in Britain, please.”<\/p>\n
Burns, who hung an England flag above her bed, was a member of the Patriotic Alternative, a far-right<\/a> group.<\/p>\n Serena Gates KC, told Bristol Crown Court that Burns had “a desire for a white England, achieved, if necessary, through terror”.<\/p>\n Police found messages in which Burns stated that she “realised my role in existence: I am the embodiment of hell, destined to annihilate everything holy I bear witness to”.<\/p>\n In another message, she referred to carrying out a “plan” – and said she wanted “all the credit and glory”.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n An examination of her diary and notebooks revealed notes about Germany, Adolf Hitler and weaponry used by the Germans in the First and Second World Wars.<\/p>\n On 30 July, she looked up on Google “what age you buy an axe UK”. She also searched “how to properly use an axe for self-defence” before the attack.<\/p>\n Then, on 31 July, she looked online for YouTube videos, including one about Patrick Crusius, who killed 23 people during a mass shooting in a US Walmart supermarket.<\/p>\n There were also searches for a number of graphic “gore” videos, including one of a man fatally stabbed in the neck, and searches on how to use darts as a weapon<\/p>\n An email to herself on the day before the attack was titled “The dawn of civil war”. In the email, she said: “Land is reclaimed through terror.”<\/p>\n She added that it was “better if they flee out of fear rather than displace us in our own home”.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Burns, who had bought an axe from Screwfix on the day of the attack, said that she intended to “kill him or injure the man”.<\/p>\n During an assessment by a mental health practitioner, Burns was asked how she felt about being arrested for attempted murder. She replied “fair enough”.<\/p>\n When asked if she had any thoughts or plans to harm others, she said she “would go on again but to succeed”.<\/p>\n She also asked if the attack was “in the news yet?”.<\/p>\n Burns pleaded guilty to attempted murder, and three charges of carrying a bladed weapon in a public place.<\/p>\n She denies having a terrorist motive. The judge will rule on the issue at her sentencing in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Nazi-obsessed teenager who launched a far-right axe attack on a random stranger has pleaded guilty to attempted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-491580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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